Getting Immigration Documents (the packet that was hand carried to the Immigration Office upon arrival in USA)

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Often Adoptive Parents or Adoptees want to review the documents in the immigration packet that was hand carried through immigration when you arrived in the USA. Here are the forms you need.
Request for Originals G-884 
https://www.uscis.gov/g-884
You will get originals of anything USCIS has originals of  (possibly Birth Ceritifcate, Adoption Decree, decree terminating bio parent rights/death certificates, etc.). You will need the “A number”, which should will be in the first country passport that was used for immigration into USA. It is also on Certificate to Citizenship as INS or USCIS Registration Number

 FOIA request G-639
https://www.uscis.gov/g-639
This provides a photocopy of everything. It will have more forms.

 The G-884 provides the original documents (but not everything will have an "original"), the G-639 provides scans of all documents.

 I recommend both forms. 

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