About Me
What is your country of birth?
In what country were you born?
What does it mean to have an "adopted child"?
Do you have an adopted child?
Some children's birth parents die, or the parents cannot take care of a child. These children are sometimes adopted, (taken in by another family). That family will take care of the child and treat the child as their own.
What does this mean?
What is your current address?
Where do you live now?
What does this mean?
Tom deserted from the Army. He is a deserter.
Tom left the Army without permission.
Don't confuse this with "dessert." Dessert is a sweet food that you eat at the end of the meal.
Pie, cake, ice cream and cookies are examples of dessert.
What does this mean?
Have you ever committed genocide?
Have you ever killed many people (often for their race or religion)?
The Nazis killed 6 million people because they were Jewish. That was genocide.
What is your country of nationality?
What country are you a citizen of?
What does it mean to have a "biological child?"
How many biological children do you have?
Biological children are those that you give birth to, or father...children who carry your genes and ancestry.
What does this mean?
physical address
Your physical address is where you live.
What does this mean?
Were you ever deported?
Did a judge tell you that you must leave the United States?
What does this mean?
Were you ever a member of an insurgent group?
Were you ever a member of a guerilla group?
Insurgent groups, rebel groups, and guerilla groups fight against the legal government of a country.
What is your current legal name?
What name is on your important papers?
What is "child support"?
A man and woman may be divorced, or never married, but have children together. One parent may pay money to the other parent to help take care of the child.
What does this mean?
mailing address
The address where your mail is sent.
For some people, the physical address and mailing address is the same thing.
Some people live at one address but send their mail to a different address, like a post office box.
What does this mean?
The police detained Joe.
The police put Joe in jail.
What does this mean?
Did you ever say that someone should overthrow the government?
Get rid of the old government and put in new leaders by using force -- killling or bombs.
Who is your employer?
Who do you work for?
What does it mean to be "deceased."
My grandmother is deceased.
Deceased: dead
People sometimes confused "deceased" with "diseased."
Deceased is dead.
Diseased means "sick."
What is a prior address?
Prior address, or previous address,is where you lived before.
What does this mean?
Sam helped his brother enter the U.S. illegally.
Sam helped his brother come into the U.S. without a passport or visa.
This is against the law.
What does this mean?
Were you ever a member of the Communist Party?
Communist: North Korea, and the People's Republic of China have communist governments.
Communist countries are often totalitarian: they take away people's rights and jail or kill people who do not agree with the government.
What is your gender?
Are you a man or a woman?
Male--boy or man
female--girl or woman
What does it mean?
Sam failed to support his dependents?
Sam did not pay for food, clothing and housing for his children.
What is a zip code?
A zip code is numbers at the end of your address.
InterFaith Works address:
1010 James Street
Syracuse, NY 13203
13203 is the zip code for InterFaith Works.
What does this mean?
Mac got arrested for illegal gambling.
Mac played games in a secret place to win money.
There are places in New York State where you can gamble legally (not against the law). Going to a casino is legal. You can also go to church and play Bingo. Those things are not illegal.
What does this mean?
Bill tortured people.
Bill hurt people very badly to get them to do what he wanted.