N-565 Application for Replacement Naturalization/Citizenship Document
Replaces a lost, stolen, mutilated, or incorrect naturalisation certificate or certificate of citizenship, and updates a certificate after a legal name change. It does not re-establish citizenship; the person is a citizen either way.
- Fee
- $555 paper, $505 online. $0 if the certificate is wrong because USCIS made the error.
- Fee waiver
- Available (Form I-912)
- Who files
- U.S. citizens who naturalised or hold a certificate of citizenship.
- Where to file
- Online through a USCIS account, or by mail to the lockbox named in the instructions.
- Processing time
- 7.2 months (FY 2026 national median through June 30, 2026)
Usually filed with
Part of these processes
What changed in 2025 and 2026
- A U.S. passport is usually a faster and cheaper proof of citizenship than a replacement certificate, and it is accepted everywhere the certificate is.
Official page. https://www.uscis.gov/n-565. Download the form there, never from a third-party site; check the edition date and fee before filing.