Don't have Naturalization Certificate Number

SECURITY CLEARANCE Q&A
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EDIT: Thank you for your reply. I actually found my naturalization certificate.

Hi,
I am looking through SF86 form for potential job I will be interviewing for (which requires Secret Clearance). In the citizenship question, I am a naturalized citizen but I cannot find my original certificate (I obtained it about 15 years ago). Therefore, I don’t have my naturalization certificate number with me. I do have my US passport though. I will submit to replace my naturalization certificate by submitting N-565 but I saw somewhere that it may take 6-8 months.

  1. Is it possible to submit the replacement request and mention that in the SF86 application?

  2. Also, I gave up my alien green card when I got naturalized. So I don’t have the alien number either for the Section 9.2 Q: Do/did you have a U.S. alien registration number? If so, provide the number:

I have been using the US passport for years to prove my citizenship.

Thank you so much

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The naturalization certificate normally also lists your alien registration number.

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I’ve come across this with adoptions over seas and our client tells us the US Passport is the Platinum standard. Once you get a US Passport…their vetting process is accepted. I wonder if your naturalization numbers are perhaps captured somewhere in the Passport process? Can you check city hall records? Department of records maybe?

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Yet . . . We have seen several posters here recently who have been asked for more than a birth certificate?

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Thank you for your reply. I actually found my naturalization certificate.

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The two COC’s I have (my husband’s, issued in 19080’s, and daughter’s, issued in 2006) both have two separate numbers on them, both begin with an A. I was asked for both numbers during my BI appointment.