An Aussie needing urgent advice regarding visa/green card

[JoshJ]

Hey,

My name is Josh. My father was born in the United States to a US father and Australian mother. My father came to Australia when he was 2 years old and holds Australian citizenship. My father and grandfather have birth certificates that state they were born in the United States.

I want to move to the US within the next few months and was wondering which, if any, visa/green card I am eligible for. It has been very difficult, because my father is not a US citizen anymore. I do have a bunch of family who still live in the States though.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Josh.

 

[Jackolantern]

You're not eligible to claim US citizenship via birth, because your father didn't live in the US for at least 5 years.
http://travel.state.gov/content/tra...s-policies/citizenship-child-born-abroad.html

If you're still under 18 and your father still had US citizenship, you may have been able to obtain US citizenship through the N-600K process. Or a green card if you're too old for that.

But with your father having surrendered or lost his citizenship, there is no option left for you to acquire US citizenship or a green card through him, unless he can obtain a green card or is able to restore his US citizenship (if he lost his citizenship under the old rules that stripped the citizenship of some US citizens who lived abroad, he may be eligible to have it restored).

 

[newacct]

because my father is not a US citizen anymore.

Your father is a U.S. citizen unless he actively renounced it. People who were born or naturalized in the U.S. cannot involuntarily lose U.S. citizenship. It is constitutionally protected.