STEP TWO: Sending Notices

Warning

Wait 21 days after mailing your affidavit of citizenship evidence, then begin Step Two, sending your notices. DO NOT skip or delay this step.

Sending your notices to government agencies is a critical step to complete.

Don’t assume or depend on the U.S. Department of State to notify these other agencies, even though you’ve indicated that they do so in your cover letter when you submitted your affidavit of citizenship evidence to them in Step One. If you don’t give notice to these agencies, or any others that you deem relevant, then it will be much more difficult to defend your status if you ever have to interact with any of them.

Sending a copy of your affidavit of citizenship evidence and a cover letter to relevant government agencies gives them official legal notice that you have corrected your status to a national, which takes you out of their jurisdiction. This is why it is critical to keep ALL certified mail receipts in your records. The receipt verifies they received it, but it is likely they will not respond officially to the notice, and even more likely, they won’t understand its meaning or its implications as it applies to their jurisdiction over you.

Use this at your own discretion; it is not legal advice, just an example cover letter. We recommend that you personalize it for your individual use.

View/Download Notices Cover Letter Sample

Write a cover letter and attach it to a copy of your affidavit of citizenship evidence and its cover letter. Then mail them together to the Attorney General of your state, with carbon copies (cc) to agencies/officials in your area.

Send your notice to anyone you think should be notified. This list is just an example of who we think should receive the notice. Include any other agencies that you want to put on notice that aren’t listed here.

  • Your state’s Secretary of State
  • Mayor
  • Sheriff
  • District Attorney
  • Chief of Police
  • Elections Supervisor
  • City Council
  • County Supervisor
  • Commissioner
  • Public Health Department
  • Department of Labor
  • Department of Revenue
  • The Coroner’s Office
  • Law Enforcement Agency
  • School Districts
  • Child Protective Services
  • Internal Revenue Service*

*Note: Be sure to include these statements on your notice cover letter to the IRS:

LAWFUL LEGAL NOTICE, NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AS A FILING
NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL IS NOTICE TO AGENT, NOTICE TO AGENT IS NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL
It is not my intent to avoid paying any taxes that I may lawfully owe. If it is determined that I owe a tax, I will do my best to pay it promptly.

Click to view or download Sample IRS Cover Letter

If you’d like assistance with writing your notice letter, we have developed the following form that will build your notice letter for you. Included are one for the Attorney General of your state with the local agencies in the courtesy copy section, and an Internal Revenue Service notice letter with appropriate verbiage.

Feel free to replace our suggestions with agencies you prefer to notice; only the first six are required. Have your agencies information handy, as this form will not save your entries for completion later. If you leave the form without submitting it, you may have to start over.

We will email your letters to you with a link to edit them if you need to.

Notices Package
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Information About YouStep 1 of 4
Your Full Name
Your Address
This is where your notice letters will be emailed.
This date will appear at the top of your letters.
Your Date of Birth
This will appear on the IRS notice letter.
Enter your city and state of birth. This will appear on the IRS notice letter.
This is for identification and will be displayed on the IRS notice letter. Enter your full social security number, or x’s, and only the last 4 digits, or you can skip it. You will be able to edit your letters and add this information later. Please review our privacy policy.
  • Make one copy of your notice letter for each agency in the CC’s section of the notice letter. Attach a copy of your affidavit of citizenship evidence and it’s cover letter to each of the agencies copies.
  • If you need assistance with properly addressing envelopes to officials, check out this website: https://formsofaddress.info/attorney-general-of-state/
  • Send them Certified Mail with Return Receipt Requested. DO NOT staple your documents together, use paperclips if necessary.
  • We suggest that you copy and/or scan each of the signed documents, certified mail receipts and completed green cards. Keep all copies stored in a safe location.

Why is cc’ing and mailing a notice to other agencies, in addition to your state’s attorney general, so important?

Notices are important because the cc’d copy of your affidavit legally connects all the agencies that you send a notice to.

Essentially, you’ve weaponized your position if needed by noticing all agencies that you may have future interactions with. All the agencies you’ll notice are structured under the laws of agency

The reason is that once they notice you, they’re aware of your status and that you are outside their jurisdiction and not controlled by those laws any longer. If they still act against you, then they’re acting outside their delegated responsibility and can be held accountable for those actions. They will lose their cloak of immunity, and because you’ve tied them all together with the CC’s notice and the laws of agency, the attorney general will lose their cloak of immunity as well because they are the principal. Notice to the principle is notice to the agent; notice to the agent is notice to the principal. By cc’ing the attorney general, they should have known, and they let it happen anyway; therefore, they are personally liable for the actions of the agents.

Agency Law

Agency law is the common law doctrine controlling relationships between agents and principals. A principal-agent relationship is created when the agent is given authority to act for the principal. An agreement made by an agent is binding on the principal so long as the agreement was within the authority actually granted to the agent or reasonably perceived by a third party.

Can I start my notices before the 21 days?

Yes, you could actually have everything ready to mail on the 22nd day after you’ve mailed your Affidavit of Citizenship Evidence to the U.S. Secretary of State.

Why is it so important to not delay this step?

What we have seen is that delaying the notices beyond the 21 days they can sometimes be forgotten all together. You don’t want to get into a situation that could have been prevented by notifying the proper officials. You are no longer in their juristiction and the quicker you notify them the more it can lessen the chance of having an issue in the future.

Why do I have to wait 21 days to mail my notices after mailing my affidavit to the U.S. Secretary of State?

That timeframe gives the Secretary of State ample time to respond to your affidavit. They don’t usually reply but we have to give them time before we start noticing our local agencies.

When addressing a notice to the Attorney General of a state, why is the salutation “To Whom It May Concern”?

The salutation is “To Whom It May Concern” because the address indicates Attn: Head of the Administrative Records.” To Whom It May Concern is used because the name of the Head of Administrative Records is unknown.


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