N-600 Question !

cnguyen_v

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First, i would like to thank you all for reading my post.

I’m trying to apply to US citizenship using form N-600 but don’t know if I’m qualify for it? Kind-of worry because came to US after 2001.
Please let me know should I apply to N-600 or N-400?

1. Come to US in 07/2003 (Have a green card)
2. Born in 1988/ I was under 18 before Feb.2001
3. My Father was Naturalized in 2000.
4. Still live with my parents.
5. My mother and father are married.



Thanks again.
 
First, i would like to thank you all for reading my post.

I’m trying to apply to US citizenship using form N-600 but don’t know if I’m qualify for it? Kind-of worry because came to US after 2001.
Please let me know should I apply to N-600 or N-400?

1. Come to US in 07/2003 (Have a green card)
2. Born in 1988/ I was under 18 before Feb.2001
3. My Father was Naturalized in 2000.
4. Still live with my parents.
5. My mother and father are married.



Thanks again.

You are already an USA citizen. You have to file N-600. If you need, you can apply for US Passport straight away. On approval of N-600 you will be issued Citizenship Certificate. all the best.

My question is he permitted to register for voting in the forthcoming election, pending approval of N-600????
 
If you were living with your married, biological parents in the US when got your green card, it looks like you would have derived citizenship as soon as your green card was approved, and you would qualify to file N-600.
 
My question is he permitted to register for voting in the forthcoming election, pending approval of N-600????

If the state requires proof of citizenship for registration, or checks citizenship status with the Federal government before approving the registration, the OP would not be able to register.

However, most states are lax with those checks, so it is likely the registration would be accepted if attempted. But that runs the risk of being prosecuted for making a false claim to US citizenship if it is ultimately determined that the OP is not a US citizen.
 
First, i would like to thank you all for reading my post.

I’m trying to apply to US citizenship using form N-600 but don’t know if I’m qualify for it? Kind-of worry because came to US after 2001.
Please let me know should I apply to N-600 or N-400?

1. Come to US in 07/2003 (Have a green card)

When exactly did you become an LPR? In July of 2003? Or later?
 
Thanks everyone for your help. I will get the application turn in now.

My green card show : 07/2003

OK, that's good. This means that you were about 15 years old (importantly, under 18 y.o.) at the time you became an LPR in July 2003. Assuming that at some point between the time you came to the U.S. in 2003 and the time you turned 18, you lived in the U.S. with your father, you did derive U.S. citizenship under the Child Citizenship Act.

See http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1312.html
for details regarding the Child Citizenship Act.

So you can file N-600 and/or apply for a U.S. passport, in any order.
You'll need your birth certificate (+ translation if the original is not in English), your parents' marriage certificate (+ translation, if the original is not in English), your father's naturalization certificate, your green card, and some proof that you did reside with your father in the U.S. at some point after entering the U.S. in July 2003 and before turning 18 y.o.
For the proof of the latter, you should be able to use your high school records for 2003 and 2004.

If you submit N-600, send photocopies of these documents with your applications (do not send the originals).

If you apply for a U.S. passport directly, before getting N-600 approved, you'll need to do that in person, at a passport application center (typically at a post office or at a passport agency). There you'll need to bring both the photocopies and the originals of the above listed documents. They'll take the originals of some of these documents with the passport application (at a minimum they'll take the original of your father's citizenship certificate, and probably your birth certificate), but these originals will be returned to you when your passport application is approved.

Even if you decide to apply for a U.S. passport first, it is still a very good idea to file N-600 and get a certificate of citizenship as well.
 
http://www.slideshare.net/BigJoe5/district-court-usc-declaration-order-on-appeal

There is a case working its way through the 3rd Circuit on this topic. DOS issued a passport in 1991. An N-600 was filed with INS and it sat around a very long time without resolution. He filed in 2001 after being convicted for smuggling cocaine. In 2008 he filed a 2nd N-600 and apparently the 2 N-600 cases were combined. USCIS denied the N-600s on valid legal grounds, AAO remanded on appeal because of him having a passport. Eventually the N-600 was denied. He filed a challenge in District Court.

Congress passed a statutory amendment regarding the value of a passport as proof of USC. A District Court relied on the statute concerning passports to declare him a citizen. USCIS is appealing that declaration in the 3rd Circuit.

I think that the Circuit Court might declare the passport statute invalid and overturn the District Court on legal grounds. It is less likely that the Court would uphold the District Court. Whatever happens, the decision would likely be challenged to the Supreme Court. I think that the Supreme Court's decision whether to hear the case will boil down to how well the 3rd Circuit Decision explains the law on this issue.

Bottom line--file an N-600 first. I think that the Passport Agency might be altering its processing in the interim and perhaps for good in the near future.

My opinions are my own on this and if you disagree, that is you right. I don't care to argue about it.
 
I just checked on everything and more concern
My Dad became citizen on June 12 , 2001.

I don't know if that will be problem in my case? Please let me know !

Thanks everyone for you help !
 
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