Hi everyone,
I'd like to share an experience of applying for US passport of my spouse;
His dad obtained US citizen when my spouse was 13, at that time he lived in abroad (UK) but his dad's lived in US. My spouse received his GC when he was 18 and 10 months and has lived in US since then.
He tried to apply N-400 after held the green card cat.IR7 for more than 5 years [The online application won't let him]
So he tried applying N-600 instead and the application was received at local office on July 2018.
He learned from this forum and was advised by one of the lovely members here so he decided to apply for US passport while his N-600 has already been received. The reason he didn't want to wait for the N-600 to be approved or denied because he will be sponsoring me a green card as soon as he received either citizenship cert. or passport. He applied US passport on July 16th, 2018. He had all required documents upon applying. A week later he received a letter from DOS like this;
Dear Mr. XXX:
Thank you for your recent passport application. If you have already obtained a Certificate of Citizenship issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), please submit this document to our office. If a Certificate of Citizenship has not been obtained, please submit the following:
A combination of documents such as school, tax, medical, or court records that documents you were in the legal and physical custody of your U.S. citizen parent(s) after you entered the United States for lawful permanent residence and before your 18th birthday.
He replied to DOS by writing a letter saying;
Dear Customer Service Department,
I applied for a U.S Passport on July 17th, 2018 on the basis my father XXX XXXXX became a U.S. Citizen when I was thirteen years old. I gave my father U.S Citizenship Certificate to the clerk and other supporting documents, I was told by the clerk the other documents were not needed. My father U.S. Citizenship Certificate and my Permanent Residence Card was sent in with my application. I am attaching such supporting evidence at this time.
Sincerely,
Today August 01, 2018: he's expecting to hear something from DOS. However, he was once told by a paralegal that he was not illegible the N-600 but N-400. So based on the situation above, you guys think my spouse will get a US passport or what?
Thanks
Alex