Concerning N600

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Pavlo

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Hello, I am an 18 yr old, my parents are both citizens and have submitted form n600 in November of last year for my Certification of Citizenship. After months of nerve-wrecking waiting and anxiety, I have finally received an appointment for my examination on May 15th.

I have read through this forum about the form n600 and had some questions of my own which were not answered.

1.) I am now 18, when the form was filed I was 17, will this cause any problems?

2.) After the whole interview, do I receive my Certificate of Citizenship?

3.) After this interview can I finally apply for a U.S. passport to leave the country?

I am anxious to hear answers. Thanks in advance.
 
1) NO. As long as one of your parents was a citizen before your 18th bday and you were living with that/those parent(s) as a permanent resident, you're fine. You can file whenever you want as long as you were under 18 when your parents became citizens.

2) Not sure

3) You don't need a certificate of citizenship to get a passport. All you need is evidence that your parents are citizens, that they were citizens before your 18th birthday, you lived with them, you were a permanent resident at the time they became citizens. If you have all of the above, you can apply for a passport with the state department right now because you're considered a US citizen.
 
  1. No problem. If you met all the criteria at some point in time (legitimate child, under 18, at least one parent citizen, legal permanent resident) you became a US citizen at that time.
  2. No idea. Let us know (my wife applied for my daughter last June and we are still waiting)
  3. You became a US citizen when all of the criteria were met. You could have applied for a passport on that day.

    My daughter applied for a passport on the day my wife naturalized (last June). We only submitted an N-600 after we got the passport. Of course, now that you have an appointment, don't apply for a passport until after it is over (since you want to have your parent(s)'s naturalization certificate in your hands for the interview). But, yes, once you get your citizenship certificate you can apply.

Please post your timeline (I'm very curious). Also, when your processing is finished please (please, please) post something that describes your experiences.

Thanks
 
Oh...

In particular please let us know about the "no longer a minor" problem. I'm curious if you somehow need to fill out another form during the interview (since the form as submitted has answers that are no longer valid). My (now 18-year-old) daughter is in exactly the same situation as you (she turned 18 last month).

You are definitely a US citizen (assuming all of the criteria were met), but who knows how the USCIS will treat your application.

If you want to read about my experiences during an InfoPass (trying to get information about my daughter's N-600), try this: http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=244273. However, I'm not very confident about any of the information I got during that InfoPass.
 
Thanks for the quick responses everyone.

flydog,

I, or rather my parents, submitted the form N600 postmarked on November 9th, 2006. After this my parents re-assured me that everything will be okay and that I would be able to complete and receive my passport before the summer vacation, which I am planning to spend abroad.

We sort of let it flow for a couple of months, but by I'd say, mid-February, when we didn't receive any notification of acceptance or any sort of receipt, my dad called the 800 number to check the status of the application. It is at this point that there arose a dilemma: on the application form, my dad put the wrong Green Card number. The last number being a 6 instead of 7 was promptly corrected by the immigration officer.

Since this time February, I became more involved myself and became extremely anxious to receive any kind of notification. I constantly checked the USCIS Processing Times site but eventually gave up after it hasn't been renewd in a month or so. Finally, in mid-April I finally receive my appointment for May 15th, which I am anxious to attend to (hopefully) receive my Certificate and develop the passport allowing me to leave the country, seeing as my Green Card expires July 22nd.

I should mention that I am in New York, but the bureaucracy seems to be flourishing everywhere, as I read from your experience in Dallas. I may, or maybe I should, blame the error my dad made, but what's done is done.

I'll be sure to post my experience after my interview.
 
I wonder if you have read the part in which you can get your passport (if you are a citizen through compliance with the criteria of the child citizenship act of 2000, it has already been summed up in previous posts) with your Green Card and your parents certificate of citizenship/naturalization. If all you want is the passport, why sweat and wait for the N-600, go to a passport office with your documentation and an itinerary and get yourself a passport. Am I missing something?

My 2 cents.
 
Huracan said:
I wonder if you have read the part in which you can get your passport (if you are a citizen through compliance with the criteria of the child citizenship act of 2000, it has already been summed up in previous posts) with your Green Card and your parents certificate of citizenship/naturalization. If all you want is the passport, why sweat and wait for the N-600, go to a passport office with your documentation and an itinerary and get yourself a passport. Am I missing something?

My 2 cents.
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But the official state site says you must present either 1. Naturalization Certificate or 2. Certificate of Citizenship which I neither have :confused:
 
Wait a minute, I'm sorry I am confused now.

My parents claimed citizenship through Naturalization. I was not born in the United Stated, and am now filing N600. You're telling me I can still apply for a U.S. passport, but with their documents? Please explain. Thanks in advance.
 
Yes, You Can

You are automatically a Citizen and can apply for a passport. You living in New York, you could actually take an appointment and walk-in to the New York Passport agency (with your parents, and their Naturalization Certificate), and apply and receive the passport the same day, provided you have proof of travel (ticket or itinerary) for travel within in the next 10 odd days.

Here is the section of law from USCIS website.

INA: ACT 320 - Children born outside the United States and residing permanently in the United States; conditions under which citizenship automatically acquired 1/



Sec. 320. [8 U.S.C. 1431] (a) A child born outside of the United States automatically becomes a citizen of the United States when all of the following conditions have been fulfilled:



(1) At least one parent of the child is a citizen of the United States, whether by birth or naturalization.



(2) The child is under the age of eighteen years.



(3) The child is residing in the United States in the legal and physical custody of the citizen parent pursuant to a lawful admission for permanent residence.
 
Or, you can check the passport form: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/79955.pdf

Where it says (on the second page of the instructions):

DS-11 Passport Form said:
  • APPLICANTS BORN OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES Submit a previous U.S. passport, Certificate of Naturalization, Certificate of Citizenship, Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or evidence described below.
    1. If You Claim Citizenship Through Naturalization of Parent(s). Submit the Certificate(s) of Naturalization of your parent(s), your
      foreign birth certificate, and proof of your admission to the United States for permanent residence.
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Although the USCIS won't admit it, your green card is now invalid - you are a US citizen. You should be traveling on a US Passport. The N-600 is not like the N-400. In the latter case you are asking the USCIS to approve your application for naturalization. In the case of an N-600, you (or your parents) are simply asking the USCIS to recognize the fact that you are, in fact and in law, a US citizen by issuing you a Citizenship Certificate.

My daughter - whose N-600 has be ignored by the Dallas USCIS office for 10 months now, has had a US Passport since the middle of June 2006.

That said, don't apply for a passport now. You have your USCIS interview scheduled and you will need to produce your parents' Naturalization Certificates at that interview.

Fill out a passport application, get your pictures taken, and stop at a post office on the way home from the USCIS. If you get your Citizenship Certificate, use it in your application. Otherwise, use your parents' Naturalization Certificates.

(and finally, if your parents' family names differ (as do my wife's and mine), and you are going to use your parent's natz certs for your passport application, include your parents' marriage certificate - the state department asked for ours in order to prove the "legitimacy" of our daughter)

Good luck
 
What else can I say, I think gabbar007 and flydog have nailed it, down to the text in the DS-11 form ;)

Good luck.
 
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