Request for Certification of Military or Naval Service

OMB No. 1615-0053; Expires 08/31/08

N-426, Request for Certification
of Military or Naval Service

Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Instructions
(Please discard this sheet before submitting request. Submit in triplicate, that is, all six pages of the form.)

NOTE: Please type or print in block letters in black ink. Be sure this form and the complete return address are legible.
Do not leave any questions unanswered. When appropriate insert "none," "not applicable," or "N/A."

What Is the Purpose of This Form?
The purpose of this form is to solicit information to obtain
a duly authenticated certification of honorable active duty
service from the U.S. Government Department, under
which you served or are serving, to satisfy statutory
requirements for naturalization as a U.S. citizen.
Submission of the information is voluntary. If your U.S. Social
Security Number requested on the form is not provided, no
right, benefit, or privilege will be denied for such failure.
However, since military records are indexed by such numbers,
verification of your military service may prove difficult.
If you are applying for naturalization under Sections 328
or 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, you
should submit this form and Form G-325B, Biographic
Information, with your Form N-400, Application for
Naturalization, to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS).

What Is Our Authority for
Collecting This Information?
Our authority for collecting the information requested on this
form is contained in Sections 328 and 329 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1439
and 1440).

Information that indicates a violation or potential violation of
law, whether civil, criminal or regulatory in nature, may be
referred as a routine use to the appropriate agency, whether
Federal, State, local, or foreign, charged with the responsibility
for investigating, enforcing, or prosecuting such violations.
Failure to provide any or all of the solicited information
may delay the naturalization process or result in a failure
to locate military records or prove qualifying military
service.

Paperwork Reduction Act
An agency may not conduct or sponsor an information
collection and a person is not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid
OMB control number. The public reporting burden for this
collection of information is estimated at 45 minutes per
response, including the time for reviewing instructions and
completing and submitting the form. Send comments
regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including suggestions for reducing
this burden, to: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Regulatory Management Division, 111 Massachusetts
Avenue, N.W., 3rd Floor, Suite 3008, Washington, DC 20529.
OMB No. 1615-0053. Do not mail your application to this
address.

All or part of the information solicited may as a matter of
routine use be disclosed to courts exercising naturalization
jurisdiction and to other Federal, State, local, and foreign law
enforcement and regulatory agencies, the Department of
Defense, including any component thereof, Selective Service
System, Department of State, Department of the Treasury,
Central Intelligence Agency, Interpol, and individuals and
organizations that process the application for naturalization, or
during the courses of investigation, to elicit further information
required by USCIS to carry out its functions.

Form N-426 Instructions (Rev. 05/19/08)Y