Mail Your Documents
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After your documents are completed, you will need to mail some of them along with letters to appropriate ‘incorporated’ entities You’ll want to do this so that your corrected status is on the public record and provided as evidence in case you ever need to advise your government employees of your corrected status at a future time.
These letters and letters with attachments should be mailed via Registered Mail with green card return receipt. Make copies of these mailings for your records.
How to Use Registered Mail
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Why do we use Registered Mail? Registered Mail adds a level of security and protection. Your mail stays in a locked cage, safe, or sealed container while it’s transported. Electronic and physical signatures at each USPS facility show the chain of custody, so you know where the piece is every step of the way.
Registered Mail uses specific packaging and sealing methods to keep mail safe and secure. When a Registered Mail piece isn’t in transit, it’s stored in a secure safe, cage, or room away from other mail. We want these letters to reach their destination.
Before you begin with your letters, you should go to your post office and pick up 10 Green Return Cards (Form #3811) and 10 Registered Mail Receipts (Form #3806). You will most likely find these on a counter area and can just pick them up. You will have to go to the Clerk Window to ask for 10 Registered Mail stickers. They come in large rolls, so the clerks keep them. At the same time, ask the clerk for $5 stamps (they come in fours). And you may want to get a sheet of $2 and a sheet $1 stamps, as well as 2 cent stamps. Stamps are real money, get into the habit of using stamps, not the metered stickers postal clerks produce on their machines. Download this PDF showing the above Forms
Voter Cancellation
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Send a letter to Your County Elections Office to request removal from voting. Read these articles to better understand why you will want to do this. Article #390 and Article #2626.
Download this Sample Letter to send to your county.
When you receive the returned green card, make a PDF of the letter and the green card and send them to your Recording Secretary.
Declaration of Political Status
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The Declaration of Political Status Document is sent (note: a color copy can be sent in place of original) with a cover letter to at least three locations. Download the Cover Letter Sample
1. United States Department of State
Antony J. Blinken
Office of the Secretary of State
2201 C. Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
2. Bureau of Consular Affairs
Rena Bitter, Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Consular Affairs
600 19th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
3. Michigan Secretary of State
Jocelyn Benson
Secretary of State
430 W. Allegan St.
Lansing, MI 48918
4. If your born state is not Michigan, you’ll need to find the address for the Secretary of State of your native state and send a letter there as well. Note: The wording of the first paragraph will need to be adjusted. Please see the note for this in the Cover Letter Sample.
After you receive the returned green cards, you’ll need to send a PDF to your Recording Secretary. We are currently finding that the D.C. office does not always return the green card. If you do not receive the green card back from D.C. within two weeks after receiving the green card from Lansing, you can use this method: Go to usps.com and type in the Registered Mail tracking number, you’ll be taken to a web page showing the delivery date of your packet. Make a screenshot of that page and print out. You can use that in place of the green card.
The order of Scanning to PDF of this set of documents to email to your Recording Secretary:
1. The Declaration of Political Status (this needs to be the first page of this PDF)
2. The Blinken letter
3. The green card or screen shot for that letter
4. The Bitter letter
5. The green card or screen shot for that letter
6. The Benson letter
7. The green card or screen shot for that letter
Revocation of Taxes
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Send a Letter of Revocation of Election to the Commissioners of both the IRS and the Internal Revenue Service and tell them that you revoke your election to pay federal income taxes beginning with October the first of last year or any prior year you choose.
Note: If you are a Federal Employee (ex. military, post office, etc.) do not send these letters.
Read this page on Revocation of Election to Pay Taxes and download the Sample letters.
Internal Revenue Office of the Commissioner
Room 3000 1111 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20204
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service
Department of the Treasury
P.O. Box 480 Holtsville, New York 11742
When you receive the returned green cards, make PDFs of the letters and the green cards and send them to your Recording Secretary.
Baby Deed
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The Baby Deed is sent with a cover letter to the Michigan Secretary of State, currently Jocelyn Benson.
Download the Cover Letter Sample to go with a color copy of the baby deed.
Jocelyn Benson
Secretary of State
430 W. Allegan St.
Lansing, MI 48918
Make copies of everything for this mailing and save for your records.
Military Veterans
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As a military vet, you will want to communicate with the branch(s) you served and clarify with them that you are no longer a volunteer. Instead of presuming that you went home to your natural political status as an American after leaving military service, they have presumed that you stayed in federal jurisdiction and that you volunteered to continue an endless tour of duty in an undisclosed reserve status. Article #3805
Read this Military Retirement page and download the Sample military letter.
When you receive the returned green card, make a PDF of the letter and the green card and send them to your Recording Secretary.
Go to Guide Steps 1 for the 1779 | Guide Steps 3 for Credential Cards | Guide Steps 4 for the 928’s
