Documents need to renew Dutch passport after becoming a (derived) US Citizen

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sjaaky

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Hi,

My parents both naturalized in 1991 when I was 16 (and a permanent resident, I was still living at home, etc). According to the laws in place at the time, this made me eligible for automatic US citizenship. I applied for, and received, a US passport, on the advice of INS. The officer I spoke with at the time told me that a passport is the cheaper, faster alternative to the optional N-600. Fast forward to my current situation. Recent changes in Dutch law mean that I am able to hold dual citizenship, even though my parents lost their citizenship, through a so-called "third generation" clause. I have to present a bunch of documents to the Dutch consulate showing that myself, my parents, and my grandparents were all born in the Netherlands. I have all that. They are also asking for my certificate of naturalization, as well as the certificates of my parents. I have certified true copies of my parents' certificates, but I obviously don't have my own, just a passport. I have called INS and they told me that the n-600 processing time is a minimum of 5 months out of the Seattle office. I have to apply for my Dutch passport before the end of March, for a variety of bureaucratic reasons.

All this to ask: how can I show the Dutch government that my passport, along with dates of my parents' naturalization, should be sufficient proof of my citizenship status? I have requested a certified copy of my passport records, to show how I initially demonstrated US citizenship in order to get my passport, but I have no idea how long it takes to actually get that information.

Has anyone else had this issue with dual citizenship requirements?

Thanks in advance!

Jacqueline
 
Thanks! I will try this and hope for the best. Silly thing is, according to their own rules, I automatically lost my Dutch citizenship (except for the exception) as of the day my parents naturalized. They don't require any proof beyond the naturalization certificates. Why they are being picky the other way, is beyond me. My sense is not many people apply under this exception, so they don't have a standard answer to my question. When in doubt, they just ask for more paperwork.
 
follow-up to my post about passport as proof of derived citizenship

Hi,

Well, sadly, the Dutch government won't accept my passport as proof of derived citizenship. I printed out the attachment that you posted AND requested my passport records from the State Department, which clearly shows in the "evidence of citizenship" section of the form that I used my parents' naturalization certificates (I also included certified true copies of those certificates in my dutch passport application). They are refusing to accept anything other than the Certificate of Citizenship, despite my argument that they have all the information that they need to determine that I naturalized along with my parents.

So, despite what everyone seems to say about "don't waste your money on a Certificate of Citizenship, just get a passport for your child" here is one case where doing just that just lost me my Dutch citizenship.

Thanks!
 
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