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A missing seal. A birth date written day-first instead of month-first. A translation that skips the stamp in the corner. Any one of these can turn a clean immigration filing into a Request for Evidence (RFE) and add weeks to a client’s wait. Foreign civil documents are the backbone of most family-based and many employment-based cases, and they are also where small errors hide. Here is a practical, step-by-step checklist immigration paralegals can use to review them before anything reaches the attorney’s desk. What Counts as a Foreign Civil Document? Civil documents are official records issued by a government authority…