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How to know my status???
- Thread starter mirri15
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parents are citizens. i was born in europe and live there most of my life. case (n-600) denied supposedly for lack of evidence. never got a green card until months ago. i had a tourist status but applied for n600, i don't know if the status changed or not only for applying for the citizenship. i got an alien number which i don't know if necessarily means any special status other than a tourist. but the app was denied. what do you think?
Simply submitting N-600 does not change your status.
Could you provide more detail regarding your N-600 and why it was denied?
Were both of your parents U.S. citizens at the time of your birth? Were they married at the time of your birth?
If the answers to both of these questions are "yes", then you may well be a U.S. citizen. For a child born abroad to two U.S. citizen parents in wedlock, the child becomes a U.S. citizen at birth, provided at least one of the parents had resided in the U.S. at some point before the child's birth.
The fact that N-600 was denied does not necessarily mean that you are not a U.S. citizen - it may simply mean that the evidence you submitted was insufficient in some way; if sufficient evidence becomes available later, a new N-600 may be submitted.
parents are citizens. i was born in europe and live there most of my life.
i was born in costa rica, never lived in the US. i was born out of wedlock. my father lived all his life in usa and he is a us citizen. my mother lives in costa rica and she isn't a citizen.
Why the discrepancy in your story?
so... what was my status when i applied for the n-600? i was on a tourist vist at that time and i got an alien number.
The mere fact of filing N-600 did not change your status. So if you were in a visitor visa status at the time of filing N-600, you remained in that status after filing N-600.
Bobsmyth, at the begining I wanted to remain anonymous, that's all.
Nobody is asking you to reveal your real life identity here. However, as a matter of politeness to those who take their time to respond to your questions, and also in order to get accurate information, you are expected to be truthful here. Even minor details can make a big difference.
E.g. you say that you are 38 y.o. now, which means that you were born around 1973, making you around 13 y.o. in 1986.
However, if on November 14, 1986 you were between 15 and 18 y.o., you would have a choice of using either the current or the "old" version of INA 309(a).
The "old" version of INA 309(a) had a different set of rules for deriving citizenship through out-of-wedlock birth abroad to a U.S. citizen father and, in particular, it was not required for the father to provide a written declaration of financial support for the child prior to the child's 18th birthday.
See http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_5199.html