Are undocumented immigrant males required to register? Yes. All undocumented immigrant males, other than those admitted on nonimmigrant visas, must register, whether or not they have a green card.
What if I am over age 26 and haven't registered? Once you reach age 26, it's too late to register. Even though you may not be prosecuted, you may be denied student financial assistance, Federal job training, and most Federal employment unless you can provide convincing evidence to the agency providing the benefit you are seeking, that your failure to register was not knowing and willful.
Penalties for not registering (Applies to Illegal Immigrant Males)
Registration is the law. A man who fails to register may, if prosecuted and convicted, face a fine of up to $250,000 and/or a prison term of up to five years.
Even if not tried, a man who fails to register with Selective Service before turning age 26 may find that some doors are permanently closed.
See also Men over the age of eligibility to register. See also What Does Selective Service Provide for America.
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STUDENT FINANCIAL AID Men, born after December 31, 1959, who aren't registered with Selective Service won't qualify for Federal student loans or grant programs. This includes Federal Pell Grants, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOG), Direct Stafford Loans/Plus Loans, National Direct Student Loans, and College Work Study.
CITIZENSHIP The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) makes registration with Selective Service a condition for U.S. citizenship if the man first arrived in the U.S. before his 26th birthday.
FEDERAL JOB TRAINING The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) offers programs that can train young men seeking vocational employment or enhancing their career. This program is only open to those men who register with Selective Service. Only men born after December 31, 1959, are required to show proof of registration.
FEDERAL JOBS A man must be registered to be eligible for jobs in the Executive Branch of the Federal government and the U.S. Postal Service. Proof of registration is required only for men born after December 31, 1959.
Some states have added additional penalties for those who fail to register. See State Legislation.
Selective Service wants young men to register. It does not want them to be prosecuted or denied benefits. If a draft is ever needed, it must be as fair as possible, and that fairness depends on having as many eligible men as possible registered. In the event of a draft, for every man who fails to register, another man would be required to take his place in service to his country.
Last Updated December 21, 2010 ©2012 Selective Service System
My special needs son has received 2 letters from selective services, neither letter requested a copy of his birth certificate.
My sister’s birth certificate has disappeared from the data base in NJ. She misplaced her only copy and requested a new copy from the state and received the reply that the state could not find her birth certificate and that it must have been misfiled.
Just shows AGAIN our government can’t do a damn thing right.
When they call, do as they do. DON’T ANSWER. When they come knocking, DON’T ANSWER. Make them work for it!
They think you are their personal slave.
Please relax.
Send a letter, informing the gov’t that you’re a member of the Moslem Brotherhood.
They’ll never bother you again.
And you’ll receive a baker’s dozen of AK-47’s in 6 to 8 weeks.
I just called this number to the Selective Service office.
847-688-6888 Take the first option 1 then the next option 2 followed by the next option 2. I was speaking to a human in less than two minutes. Not knowing details it could be that your daughter applied for some college stuff and the college punched her in as mail. He told me that there is no scams that he knows of.
Sorry about this. You can thank the other women for this. Woman’s right and all.
IMO, Ronald Reagan was right. That agency is a complete waste of tax dollars.
I think that’s a scam.
I would take a birth certificate to the nearest office, in person. I would not mail it and would not email it.
After I talked to a free people (men who have registered) none of them were required to show a BC.
For what its worth, this looks like a scam.
Others have already addressed it as a scam, so I’ll cut straight to the humor. My late Dad got a real one of those letters and wandered next door to talk to the Board about it...I say “next door” because the reserve unit he was XO of at the time had their command offices next door. He was in uniform. And he’d served with somebody on the Board in WWII and Korea. He said they told him not to worry.
Odungo has the answer, get some Arab financial backing to “fix” records
Call your Congress(wo)man. They all have constituent services to handle this type thing. The SS will respond to a Congressional inquiry.
… to make a copy of her BIRTH CERTIFICATE …
My birth certificate clearly states “do not copy”.
Ignore it. I have a friend named Michael that got similar threatening letters from the Selective Service back in 1994. We had a real good laugh about it. She said that wasn’t the only time that had happened.
“...My daughter received a letter from Selective Service of Threat of Prosecution...”
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I would ignore it and see what happened next.
But, hey, that’s just me.
Just my 2 cents’ worth....don’t do *anything*.Let them indict her,hire a lawyer (who’ll work on a contingency fee basis) and then,at the first court date you and she show up,she with her birth certificate (a passport’s even better) and bingo,she’s got a lawsuit for serious $$$.
This is a legit letter. Went over to read it and look at it. With Girly next to me, placed a call to the oh-so-unhelpful Selective Service agent whom insisted it was my fault, that somewhere down the line, the Department of Education has deduced my girl was a guy. Even though they are insisting my kid prove something she is not required to do by law, they will disrupt her Financial Aid and prosecute (agent said) for her not sending in her Birth Certificate copy within 10 days. My girl just wanted to get it over with, so I made a copy and it’s done. I did ask to speak with a supervisor to make a complaint about their “policy” and despite the agents insistance that they make the “undocumented” send in their “undocumented documents”, this is what the Selective Service is doing to US citizens. No email back from SS re: yesterday and no phone call from my Senator’s office.
End of saga. Thanks to all for the suggestions and I’m following up without involving my girly.