So, apparently Kontessa has still not provided the name of the Comune that accepted a birth certificate created for a deceased person. Very interesting. This indeed makes it difficult to call and confirm that Kontessa posts legitimate facts or has any accurate knowledge about this process at all ...

jennabet wrote:
Again Kontessa, the name of that Comune?

Seriously, who appointed you citizenship police? If the commune accepted it, they accepted it. You have no right to "call them or have an Italian lawyer friend call them."

The nerve.

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to get ahold of a Passenger Manifest from AFTER 1957 in NY? My dad came to the US in 1957 (at the age of 16, with his older brother), and then brought his parents to NY about 1960. I'd like to get the record. Any ideas?

Thanks

Hi MisterC!

I just got back the results today....that was a 7 month processing time, and it was on the "Fast Track" :p

The contents were exactly as I'd guessed-a Certificate of Citizenship, which was issued instead of a Certificate of Birth Abroad. So in other words, all the family stories were ...

Gianluca is very much a man's name

Hi MisterC!

I just got back the results today....that was a 7 month processing time, and it was on the "Fast Track" :p

The contents were exactly as I'd guessed-a Certificate of Citizenship, which was issued instead of a Certificate of Birth Abroad. So in other words, all the family stories were ...

Hi, thank for your responses :)

Getting the A-file would take a FOIA request, since my grandfather didn't go to the United States until he was already an old man, in the late 1960's....and FOIA will take about a year! I already have one of those requests lodged for my father's papers. I was hoping ...

I'm having so much trouble with this!!

My grandfather never naturalized, and I need the letter to prove it. There is a record of an A-file for him, (which I'd need to make a FOIA request for), but when I wrote to ask for a Letter of No Record of Naturalization, I didn't get a reply. I've written ...

I was beginning to wonder if that could possibly be the contents of this file: a birth abroad certificate...

Has anyone had any experience with this? Or with making a FOIA request?

And to make matters even more interesting, the person with the A-file was born an American citizen in Italy (American mother, Italian father) in 1940, and came to the US at age 16 on a US passport...

Why would they have an A-file?

Yes, there's a file with an a#, but no record of a file with a c#...

Anyone?

Hi,

I'm doing all of this from Helsinki, Finland.

NARA and the NY County Clerks have returned No Records Found to me, but USCIS has returned an A-file. I'll need to file a FOIA to get it, since it's from after 1956.

Does anyone know how long this would take (approx)? And does the existence of ...