It is not wishful thinking. If you read through the entire thread, you'll see that Locod64 has a very strong claim to having obtained US citizenship at birth. I would be very surprised if they didn't issue the passport.
My friend:
There are two questions that need to be addressed in the case of a child born abroad to a us citizen.
The first question is: does a child born to a us citizen in a foreign country acquire citizenship at birth? This answer to this question is YES.....
The second question is: is there an estublished procedure that need to be followed? Yes
and here is the procedure: If you are a US citizen and you marry in a foreign country, and you get a baby through the marriage.
You need to report the birth of the new baby at the consalur by providing the necesary paperwork. then the child becomes citizen at birth and the consalur issues passport....
If you never reported your marriage, and never reported the birth of your child, the child can't just walk to a consalur or show up in the US and claim passport.
In some way, the parent citizen must initiate the petition...
Some of you are making things very simple. You are telling someone with a Dominican Republic passport who sneaked in the US from Canada with non-immigrant Visa and who stayed in the US for ten years without legal bases, just send your passport and your father's citizenship certificate, and you will issued a passport.
How can they be able to authenticate that the child is who he is? No finger print, no picture on record, no alien number, no trace in the US visa system, no father ever reported him or claimed him, born out of wedlock, no mother whereabouts; It just does not make sense. The child is born in the United States. The advice you are giving is the advice one would give someone who is born in the US.
Bottom line is: if you are born in a foreing country to a US citizen, the naturalization process has to start at the consular in the country where the child is born. there is no getting around.. anything short of that is trouble....