Birth Affidavits

[gopit99]

Hi, My employer is going to apply for 485 for me and my family (wife and daughter), as part of documentation, lawyer asked to provide the Birth Affidavits in the check list (but I didn't get a chance to talk to my lawyer yet as how mandatory it is), but we 3 have birth certificates (my wife got the birth certificate 8 years ago and I got it 6 months ago).

Q1. Is it required for us to produce the Birth Affidavits along with our birth certificates for 485 processing?
Q2. For both of us (myself and my wife) has no parents and relatives who can provide the affidavit on our behalf in India (and unfortunately my wife cannot produce the death certificate of her father as he died when her mother was carrying her and his death certificate was never taken from municipal authorities).

Kindly tell us what is our alternative for this situation.

[rln8316]

You can submit your birth certificates for now. Do not bother for any affidavits to submission purposes. Once they issue RFE, then you can work for any affidavits. Sometimes they wont even check these documents as long as you have attached Birth certificates.
i know couple of them who did not even attach BC but their GC got approved.

[Libra_14]

Birth certificate is required to prove the country you were born it. As long as you have birth certificate, no other affidavit is required.