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(f) Collective Naturalization The following requirements are used to document U.S. citizenship for collectively naturalized individuals who were born in Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands: Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Law 191 invalidated all Puerto Rican birth certificates issued prior to July 1, 2010. On June 28, the Government of Puerto Rico extended the validity of current Puerto Rico birth certificates through September 30, 2010. All birth certificates will remain valid through September 30, 2010. After this date, every birth certificate must have been reissued by the Puerto Rico Health Department Vital Statistics Record Office. Because individuals are required to provide documentation of citizenship and identity as a condition of eligibility (see AT 08-05), beginning October 1, 2010, Puerto Rican applicants (unless their citizenship can be verified on SVES per AT 10-27 Revised) will need a reissued birth certificate, with a date of issuance on or after October 1, 2010, in order to provide proof of citizenship. As U.S. citizens, applicants born in Puerto Rico are allowed a “reasonable opportunity” period (as defined in AT 10-27 Revised) to produce a birth certificate document.

Evidence of birth in Puerto on or after April 11, 1899 and the individual’s statement that he/she was residing in the U.S., a U.S. possession, or Puerto Rico on January 13, 1941 or Evidence that that individual was a Puerto Rican citizen and the individual’s statement that he/she was residing in Puerto Rico on March 1, 1917 and that he/she did not take an oath of allegiance to Spain.

U.S. Virgin Islands Evidence of birth in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the individual’s statement that he/she was residing in the U.S., a U.S. possession or the U.S. Virgin Islands on February 25, 1927. The individual’s statement that he/she was residing in the U.S. Virgin Islands as a Danish citizen on January 17, 1917 and was residing in the U.S., a U.S. possession, or the U.S. Virgin Islands on February 25, 1927 and that he/she did not make a declaration to maintain Danish citizenship. Evidence of birth in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the individual’s statement that he/she was residing in the U.S., a U.S. possession or Territory, or the Canal Zone on June 28, 1932.

(g)Procedures for Verification of Alien or Immigration Status The primary way to verify alien/immigration status for a legal alien is by the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement (SAVE) system of the Department of Homeland Security (see the DHR/FIA Action Transmittal 04-34, issued in April 2004). Inquiry to SAVE may not made by