{"id":562,"date":"2012-08-22T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:45:05","slug":"copying-a-naturalization-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Copying a Naturalization Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hi, I recently obtained US citizenship through your firm and got my naturalization certificate.\u00a0I see that on hte certificate it says that I cannot copy it.\u00a0But I want to bring my parents to the US and I know that they&#8217;ll need copies.\u00a0Wha to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the naturalization certificate does state that it is unlawful to duplicate, it is in fact alright to make copies for lawful purposes such as proving citizenship in order to sponsor immigrant family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I recently obtained US citizenship through your firm and got my naturalization certificate.\u00a0I see that on hte certificate it says that I cannot copy it.\u00a0But I want to bring my parents to the US and I know that they&#8217;ll need copies.\u00a0Wha to do? While the naturalization certificate does state that it is unlawful to &#8230; <a title=\"Copying a Naturalization Certificate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=562\" aria-label=\"Read more about Copying a Naturalization Certificate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naturalization","tag-naturalization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}