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You can probably use a Certificate of Naturalization in lieu of a passport to reenter the United States (assuming you also have some form of ID, such as a driver’s license or state ID to prove that you’re the person named on the certificate), although you will likely earn significant ire from CBP when you return and try to reenter without a US passport. There is a statute that says that a US citizen must present a passport to reenter the US, but the Supreme Court has made it crystal clear that a US citizen cannot be excluded from the United States under any circumstance, and so CBP cannot actually refuse you entry if you claim to be a citizen and they can’t come up with “clear and convincing” evidence that you’re not (which would fairly difficult to do, given that you would have a Certificate of Naturalization in your possession, which is presumptive proof of citizenship). Plan on spending at least an hour in secondary inspection when you return, however.However, no foreign country (other than Canada, and then only at a land border crossing) will allow you to enter using a Certificate of Naturalization as proof of US citizenship, nor will you be allowed to board a plane using only that; you need a passport for that. If you still have citizenship in another country, you may be able to travel using that passport, either to that country (as a returning citizen), to any other country that your passport entitles you to visa-free travel, or to any country for which you have a currently valid visa in your other passport.Once abroad, you can have someone back in the US express or courier your US passport to you wherever you are abroad, when it arrives in the mail back home, or you can go to the Citizen Services Unit of any US consulate and apply for a replacement/emergency passport there (although expect to be given a hard time unless you have a really good reason for not getting an expedited passport before leaving the United States).See Get My Passport Fast for policies and procedures for obtaining an expedited passport; this is what you really should be doing in your circumstance. Expedited processing only costs $60. If you have a truly urgent need to travel, State will generally do a same-day passport issuance.

I was born in the United States and I don’t have a birth certificate. When I was 21, my parents were able to obtain a “Certificate of Registration of Birth” for me. A county clerk of court issued it, based on a sworn statement by a great-aunt who was present at my birth, and on an insurance policy issued when I was two years old.Despite the lack of a birth certificate:- At age 16 I got a social security card.- At age 18 I registered for the draft (Selective Service).- Later that year I enlisted in the U.S. Army.- At age 20 I was issued a U.S. diplomatic passport.- At age 20 and beyond for several years, I held a U.S. Top Secret Clearance and a SEATO Top Secret Clearance.Without any proof whatever that I was a citizen.For the record, I was born more than seven decades ago, in a state where birth certificates were required at the time.How did this happen? According to my father, the physician who attended my birth had been awake for about two days when I finally emerged, late on a Sunday evening, in a private apartment.The physician went home to catch up on his sleep. He forgot to register my birth. Shortly afterward, he was arrested. Charge: Helping unwed mothers place babies up for adoption (it was illegal then). Shortly afterward, he died in prison.How did I get a Social Security card? I just asked for one. Life was simpler then.How did I register for Selective Service, which required a birth certificate without exception? I got to the SS office about five minutes to five on a Friday afternoon. The young lady there was new, apparently not well trained, and already had her pocketbook in her hand to go home.She said, “But you have to have a birth certificate.” I said, “But I don’t have one. Never have had one. But I have a Social Security card and a driver’s license.” She said, “Well, I guess that will do.”How did I get a passport two years later? I was one of three volunteers for a six-month mission to “somewhere”. (At that time, our destination was Top Secret.) We were in Korea. The much older Lieutenant Colonel in command of our three-man team very definitely did not want to go somewhere on this planet, make a night parachute drop, and spend six months fighting somebody, unless I was with him. (The third guy on the team was a dud.)We sat up late one night while he memorized every detail of my early life. Parents’ names, friends, places I’d lived — everything.When we appeared before the U.S. Consul in Seoul to get our passports, he solemnly swore that he had been stationed near where I was born and knew my parents well at the time. He swore to all sorts of details about my birth and early life. I got my passport, we flew out, assumed civilian identities, slipped away to that somewhere, and lived to tell about it.Why did I suddenly get a Certificate of Registration of Birth a few months later? The consul in Seoul, hesitant (or perhaps suspicious) had made my passport temporary — it expired in six months unless I produced proof of U.S. citizenship.As it happens, the country we three arrived at (which we entered on a civilian airline, in civilian clothes, with passports, like tourists) knew my passport was temporary.About two months before the passport was to expire, the government threatened to deport me when my passport expired. The U.S. Embassy said the U.S. wouldn’t accept me. Not only that, the embassy wouldn’t issue a permanent passport. Reasons: I had no proof I was a U.S. citizen. Ergo, I was soon to be a stateless citizen.Did that focus my attention? Yes. I started sending air mail letters and telegrams to my parents. I needed proof of birth, or very soon I would be The Man Without a Country.So, with the great-aunt fortunately still alive, and the insurance document, they got the belatedly-issued Certificate of Registration of Birth — more than 21 years after I was born.You better believe, I have three copies of that Certificate. And one of them is in a Safe Deposit box.

When I was a Facility Manager (aka: Maintenance Crew boss) for a 250 unit complex in California the process was that a Certified Return Receipt copy of the Notice to Quit or Pay was mailed via USPS to the addresses on record in the tenant file and a copy was tacked to the front door.>In California and Oregon* that copy secured to the main entrance door of the residence serves as legal Service of Notice to the tenant.*Note the wiggle words carefully. In law the details matter and the law in your state may vary, even radically.After securing the Notice to the main entrance door, we used a Polaroid camera with a date stamp to document the delivery of the Notice for the court, in case the resident claimed lack of service. We also filled out an Affidavit of Service to go with the photos, stating that “I do hereby attest that I [legal name] did on [date] at [military time] secure a Notice to Pay or Quit on the main entrance door of Apartment number [xxx] located at (Apartment complex name and address].I attest to the foregoing under penalty of perjury.[Signature and date/time]We only had to use those photos half a dozen times over the 5 years I was there but, when we needed them they were critical in documentation for proof of service to the Court.*cue fast talking announcer*The foregoing was not written by an attorney and more importantly, the author is not YOUR attorney. It is not legal advice and if you need legal advice prithy hie thyself forth from thine domicile and hire thee a damnlawyer.