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Immigration Forum / USA Marriage Base / February 2006citizenship for children under 18y.o.
Hi, you'd think this would be a simple answer to find, but we keep getting different answers. My wife's sister just became a U.S. Citizen. She has 2 children, 14 and 17 years old. She wants to know if these 2 children automatically became citizens when she did (they live with her, here in the U.S. if that matters), and what she has to do to make them officially U.S. Citizens? Someone said all she has to do is apply for passports for them. Someone else said she has to go through some kind of naturalization process with fees and such, that this gives them more permanent citizenship status, whereas with just getting the passports for them, if the mother dies, they are no longer citizens? Huh?! What's the real scoop? > Hi, you'd think this would be a simple answer to find, but we keep > getting different answers. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > What's the real scoop? Hi there, My husband just became a citizen last Friday. On the list of frequently asked questions he was given at the oath ceremony, it said this about children: "What about my children? Answer: Under the Child Citizenship Act of 2001, if on the day you are naturalized, your child is under 18 years of age and has an Alien Registration Card (is a permanent resident), they become citizens the same day you naturalized in MOST cases. However, there are a few exceptions! You may apply directly for a passport for your child when you apply for your US passport. You may also apply for a Certificate of Citizenship with the USCIS on an N-600." So, it sounds like if her children are permanent residents, then they became citizens the same time she did and that she can apply for their passports along with hers. I hope that's the case for her. :-) From what I've read, it seems all they'd need are the passports. --Sophie >Hi there, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >--Sophie It is unclear because the USCIS does not come right out and say that all the child of the US Citizen needs is a passport. All they do say is that you can get a Certificate of Citizenship by filing an N-600 for $255. (In typical USCIS fashion, it says on one page that the fee is $160, then on the very next page it takes you to, it says $255.) So the question is this: Is there any real advantage to going through the N-600 process and paying $255 or is it just as good to just get a U.S. passport? >>Hi there, >> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > Is there any real advantage to going through the N-600 process and > paying $255 or is it just as good to just get a U.S. passport? It's just my opinion, but I'd say that the passport is good enough. > >Hi there, > >My husband just became a citizen last Friday. On the list of [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > Is there any real advantage to going through the N-600 process and > paying $255 or is it just as good to just get a U.S. passport? Since a US passport is proof of US citizenship, there is no advantage to the N-600. The only reason you may need one is if they don't issue a passport because of insufficient proof of citizenship. Ian > Hi, you'd think this would be a simple answer to find, but we keep > getting different answers. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > What's the real scoop? Posted in error  SignatureI'm not an attorney. This disclaimer is valid in NYS! > Posted in error For Usenet readers, please disregard my previous post. It should not have been posted. Thank you. SignatureI'm not an attorney. This disclaimer is valid in NYS! I don't understand why there is any controversy over this. It should be a clear yes or no answer, yet there seems to be much confusion over it. I did a search at google groups web site and even there, with many posts, there seems to be no absolute answer; most seem to say you don't really need the N-600 yet some say that getting it is a good idea. WHY is it a "good idea"?? (if it is...) > I don't understand why there is any controversy over this. It should > be a clear yes or no answer, yet there seems to be much confusion over > it. I did a search at google groups web site and even there, with many > posts, there seems to be no absolute answer; most seem to say you > don't really need the N-600 yet some say that getting it is a good > idea. WHY is it a "good idea"?? (if it is...) Personally, I would want to have the actual Certificate of Naturalization, in case I lost my passport I'd have backup proof that I am indeed a citizen. But that's just me. Rene >> I don't understand why there is any controversy over this. It should >> be a clear yes or no answer, yet there seems to be much confusion over [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Rene I can see your point; but would not a copy of one's passport be enough to present to anyone in the interim, while the replacement passport was being processed, which with Expedited Service is only about 2 weeks or less? I think if money is no object, the extra step of getting the $255 N-600 cert. is probably a good backup thing to do. But if money is an issue, which it is with many new immigrants, wouldn't a passport and a safe copy of that passport serve just as well? Can one get the passport to have for NOW, and then go ahead and get the N-600 at any time later, when one has an extra $510 to donate to the USCIS? That's what you should do. However, you still did not mak it clear if the kids in question are US green card holders. If they are not, then they are not citizens. As for the N-600, you don't need it now but the kids may need it later when they are going to renew their passport. >>> I don't understand why there is any controversy over this. It should >>> be a clear yes or no answer, yet there seems to be much confusion over [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > the N-600 at any time later, when one has an extra $510 to donate to > the USCIS? >That's what you should do. However, you still did not mak it clear if the >kids in question are US green card holders. If they are not, then they are >not citizens. > >As for the N-600, you don't need it now but the kids may need it later when >they are going to renew their passport. Thanks. This is what I am going to recommend my sister-in-law do, get the passports for now then later get the N600. The N600 is outrageously expensive but I guess like so much other Immigration/Citizenship crap, you just have to bend over and take it. |
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