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In article <1992Aug4.184632.27370@odi.com>, dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb) writes:
> In article <1992Aug3.160118.9445@osf.org> dbrooks@osf.org (David
Brooks) writes:
> 
>    Kids, don't try this at home.  The INS is the epitome of the inefficient,
>    unresponsive bureaucracy (hint: how many voters do they deal with?).
> 
> Perhaps more to the point, the INS sees its primary function as
> "keeping out people who aren't supposed to be in."  Letting people in
> who are supposed to be in is considered a distinctly subsidiary
> function.  Not to mention that the policies that are given to them
> to implement are wrongheaded.

 Actually the INS seems to have its own view of reality. I came to the US when
I was four with my family. Both my parents became naturalized citizens which
confered citizenship on myself. Years later I married someone who was here on
a student visa. So we submitted an application for a change of status
and waited.
After about 9 months the INS called us in to ask for proof of my citizenship. I
explained my situation. The person said that I would have to prove it and we
were told to leave. A couple of weeks later I received a note saying
that my wife
would be deported in two weeks because I had failed to prove I was a citizen.
So I took a number of documents, my parent's naturalization documents,
my father's
death certificate and some others, to the INS. They responded that this didn't
prove anything, but if I took them to the State Department and got a passport
that would prove citizenship. I took the documents to the passport
office in NYC
and a couple of days later got my passport. I took the passport back to the INS
and I was magically a citizen. Can you explain why these documents where not
proof of citizenship even though they were issued by the INS?
  Prior to applying for my wife's new visa I had submitted an application to
the INS for a document saying I was a citizen. I never heard anything back from
them.

Iain Wacey
cat@pluto.dss.com