Difficult situation... no identity? - Page 2

Originally Posted by beto2287

For many cases, you just go to your country's consulate office and ask them that you need to get a passport, since you basically never had one. In my experience, me being Peruvian, they make the process extremely easy. you just need to show your country's ID, and in order to get one of those you just need a birth certificate.
I will advice you to go to your country's consulate office and just tell them you need a passport, since you have your original birth certificate.

Originally Posted by Ianus

Well either way this is going to end one identity! Either you apply for the Deferred action paperwork under the birth certificate name and gain access to an EAD possibly and give up the ability to ever adjust through an immediate relative in the US since you will be considered an EWI or vice-versa!


If someone from an embassy officially from my country told me that I didn't exist in their system then I would officially be Stateless!It is also well known that quite few visa fraudulent rings exist in India so the birth certificate can even be faked!If you came in on fraudulent documentation [passport and visa] what makes you think that everything else could not be as well?Just because the name is different?

Originally Posted by Jzr1021

I have already... They're not going to help me as I don't have any legal status.

Originally Posted by Jzr1021

I do have my college ID and all of my High School IDs with my real name.

Oops sorry guys, I forgot to mention that I was born in India.
The embassy’s not really willing to help me at all since I don’t have any legal status or proof that I left the country legally. I went to the Indian Embassy in New York myself, and they were asking for a lot of information (like the passport I came with, my parents passport) that I didn’t have. My dad told me not to tell them about the fraudulent passport I came with… obviously, since I would get in a lot of trouble at the embassy for even mentioning that. The lady working there told me that I have the option of filing a police report stating that my passport was lost, and then applying for a lost passport (which would be difficult since it asks for previous passport #, & visas, etc). She said that even after doing this, I wouldn’t be able to get a passport because they can’t issue brand new passports without approval from India… so this was all pretty much useless.

I’m pretty confident that my birth certificate is real because I have been using it my entire life, and I don’t know what I would do if it wasn’t… Am I still stateless…? ahhh

I’m not really worried about filling out the deferred action part because I think the birth certificate should be enough to prove my identity. I’m only worried about the Biometrics part for the EAD and whether I should put EWI on my application or visa overstay… If I put overstay, they would ask for my i-94 (which I have but its not in the right name :/).

One of my friends told me to try getting a Washington ID card. Is this my only option?

Thanks for all the input guys!

Originally Posted by elihu

^If only they worked that way :\

Originally Posted by luvsherry

Ok find the nearest consulate and go there with your BC and your school id to get your passport.. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE HONEST WITH USCIS.. say you do apply and you put EWI on the forms then later on you can adjust aka by marriage or something then you're screwed because you're going to want to put overstay without leaving the country but you already lied on previous forms.. do you get it?? please consult a lawyer