Paperwork once you are home: return of documents

6. Return of Documents. forms here. This is how you get the papers back which you turned in at the airport immigration (sealed packet from the US embassy in Addis) when you came into the US with your child. It is called the G-884 Return of Original Documentation. It is FREE!

If you do elect to do this they will not be in any file anywhere official anymore. Therefore you can not retrieve them later should they be lost. Of course USCIS will still have all their pertinent immigration info entered in the system. But, original paper work/documents will not be. 


There is not much in there ordinarily. If you were not given the Ethiopian court papers or the documents when you went to immigration in Ethiopia, you can not retrieve them. Ask for copies then.