Immigration Forum / USA Marriage Base / February 2005

I know that in today's CIS world that when parent(s) naturalize their
children who are living with them in the US also become US Citizens as
long as they are minors.  As proof of this naturalization, a N-600 is
filed for the actual paperwork.  Although it is not required for the
children of obtain a US passport attesting to their naturalization.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons why your DAO wanted the CON from you?

Maybe this is because children under 18 years of age with at least one
parent who is a U.S. citizen whether by birth or naturalization, will
automatically acquire U.S. citizenship?

Hi:

You had derivative naturalization and did not naturalize on your own.
In fact, I'm looking at my "wallpaper" in my office, which includes the
Naturalization Certificates of my grandparents and the "Certificate of
Citizenship" for my mother.  It matches the dates of her parents
naturalization.

A part of our family history is that Mom had to register as an "enemy
alien" during World War II and she naturalized in 1943 just before she
married Dad.  However, when Dad gave me her certificate after she died,
I noted that she had the "Certificate of Citizenship" from July 23, 1943
stating she had been a citizen since April 12, 1940 when she was 17
years of age. In other words, Mom had never been an "enemy alien."

This is not the only inaccuracy in my family's immigration history.  My
other grandmother's application for naturalization in 1944 states that
she had "three sons in the United States Army."  Well, I have a portrait
of Dad and his brothers in uniform and only one is an Army Uniform with
the other two in Navy uniforms.