N-600 and passport for minor child

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manishvora_99

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Folks,

My wife and I completed our journey today - finally US citizens at 11:10 am. I will post my detailed experience later today. A big thank you to all those wo have helped on this forum.

One final question - the immigration officer at the oath ceremony said that i cannot apply for my minor childs pasport until I get the naturalization certificate for him. Is that correct? Based on my understanding, i can get a passport for my son even without getting a naturalization certificate.

Please clarify.
 
Not correct. You can apply for the children's passports right away. You'll need to submit your naturalization (yours or your wife's) along their green cards and birth certificates. Some post offices can do all the family together and will make photocopies of the parent's naturalization certificate and notarize it.

You should also consider doing the N-600 which can be done concurrently. N-600 only needs to send photocopies of documents, so you can send the originals for the passports and the copies for the N-600. I sent the N-600 the same day that I applied for the passports.

My 2 cents.
 
That's not true you can apply for you son's U.S. passport when you and your wife apply for yours using his Birth Cert and green card along with ur Nat Cert as your son is already a citizen as of today. You can apply for an N600 Cert of Citizenship (he does not get a Nat Cert because he derivate citizenship through his parents) for him whenever you feel up to it I would suggest sooner rather than later just to have it and close that chapter all together.
 
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Huracan,
Is it necessary for the minor child to be present in US until the N-600 is completed? i.e. Passport & N-600 applied at the same time, Passports arrived and N-600 is still under process. Can the minor child travel abroad now? is there any interview process exists for the minor too?
 
Once the passport is issued the child can travel. The only presence requirements for the N-600 are to show up for the fingerprinting and oath, if the child is old enough (I think over 14?) to have to do that.
 
Just to correct Jackolantern. N-600 doesn't have fingerprint requirements on the child. They might ask the kid to show up at a USCIS office just to verify that the child exists, but as far as it goes is just a formality. I believe older kids get asked to recite an oath which I think happens the same day they are called for the "interview". The child can go abroad as long as he can come back in the event that he/she is called to go to a USCIS office. Again, children are not always asked to show. The child doesn't need to study or pass any kind of exam or real interview, after all the child became a citizen when you took the oath so the N-600 is just proof of that and to show in what date the child got citizenship. Now, for the child to have derived citizenship the child has to be under 18, have a Green Card and be living with you in the US, so if your child complied with both things when you took the oath then the child is a citizen from that oath date.
 
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