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Comment on When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers?

remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m sure it differs from place to place, but I’ve recently gotten my permanent resident status and I’ve never had to show anything except for my original countries ID card. All other documents that I had to submit were local ones (rental contract, work contract, bank account).

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
When I filed for N-600 (Citizenship Papers), I remember having to get (1) Birth Certificates (was born in mainland China), (2) My Mother’s (who recently naturalized) Birth Cerficates, (3) My parents proof of marriage (I think). All these require the PRC government to be cooperative.

I can’t remember if we still had them with us here or if my parents asked relatives in China to get those for us (that was 2015, long time ago), but like, imagine if we lost it, and had to get them re-issued, then the PRC government found out I said a thing about Taiwan or something like that (I don’t think I had an opinion about that at the time, but just using it as an example), then they’re like… “you know what, fuck you lol, no papers”. That’d… be awkward…

But everything turned out fine, I got my papers and legal status.

I imagine Canada or EU has similar requirement of like your birth certificates?

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- remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  I imagine Canada or EU has similar requirement of like your birth certificates?
  
  Seems Switzerland doesn’t because I’ve never even seen mine.
  
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