How To Update My Dossier?
How to Update My Dossier?
A dossier update is typically required when you are doing your first extension on your CIS approval which is coming due to expire and needs to be updated. (Not to be confused with doing an update for a different reason, such as changing residences).
When you update your home study, you also need to update your dosser. Let’s take a look below at the few docs that are needed. Again, this is no where near as lengthy process as the initial dossier. Just a few documents.
Consideration Checklist
The consideration checklist is something you’ve already done before, but the Bulgarian MOJ is asking for an updated version of it. Perhaps some of your preferences have changed? Initially it was linked on your “dossier instructions” here
But for your convenience we have put this in the box below.
This DOES NOT need a notary.
It DOES NOT need an apostille.
Just your signature.
Please email us this document when you complete it so that our partners in Bulgaria can review it, like they did the first time.
Declaration – Annual Confirmation
This is new. You haven’t done this before. Its simple. Click on the link below. Fill it out and sign it.
This DOES NOT need a notary.
It DOES NOT need an apostille.
Just your signature.
Please email us this document when you complete it so that our partners in Bulgaria can review it, like they did the first time.
Home Study Update – Apostilled
Ok, as part of your “dossier update”, you will include your “home study update”.
Just as a refresher, the instructions for how to do a home study update are here.
To get an apostille for your home study update, you will need to send 2 copies of it to your state’s Secretary of State AND North Carolina’s Secretary of State – the same way that you “apostilled” your initial (original) home study.
To be reminded how to do this, please revisit the link for your “dossier guidelines” that we sent you in the beginning.
CIS Approval – Apostilled
This should sound familiar to you because you already did this once for your original home study. The CIS approval is the one page sheet of paper that CIS sends you to inform you that your home study has been approved.
To remind yourself how to apostille this document, you can revisit the instructions from your “dossier guidelines” addressing specifically the CIS Approval here.
Remember, please do 2 apostilled copies of your CIS approval.
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We also provide other sets of instructions detailing how to fill out other USCIS forms, such as I-800A and I-800A, Supplement 3.
Other similar instructions include: Home Study Update Requirements and Court Documents.
Instructions for how to fill out he I-800 are also provided by USCIS here.
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