N600 for 4 year old son - necessary?

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poornimat

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My husband and I are naturalized US citizens. All of us in our family have US passports and currently processing OCI at the Chicago consulate.

Do I need to apply N600 to obtain cert of Nat for my 4 year old son? Are there any advantages in applying for this certiicate? He already has his US passport.

Do you know how long it takes to process this form with USCIS?

Thanks and I look forward for some responses.

Poornima
 
poornimat said:
My husband and I are naturalized US citizens. All of us in our family have US passports and currently processing OCI at the Chicago consulate.

Do I need to apply N600 to obtain cert of Nat for my 4 year old son? Are there any advantages in applying for this certiicate? He already has his US passport.

Do you know how long it takes to process this form with USCIS?

Thanks and I look forward for some responses.

Poornima
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The main advantage of the N-600 is that your son will have permanent, non-expiring proof of citizenship. From what I understand, the current processing time is about 6 months.
 
In the event, if my family and I move back to India before my son receives his certificate, can USCIS withhold his US citizenship on the basis of our move? On the form, there seems to be another interview!

THanks
 
You and your spouse are naturalized? You and he are the biological parents of a 4 year old? When did you both naturalize and where was the kid born? Did you make a point of traveling abroad as an LPR to give birth to a non-USC??
 
poornimat said:
In the event, if my family and I move back to India before my son receives his certificate, can USCIS withhold his US citizenship on the basis of our move? On the form, there seems to be another interview!
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He already is a citizen otherwise he will not have a passport.
Assuming he was born abroad (outside US), someone looked at his documents and decided he was legit to be a citizen.
N600 is better because it is non-expiring proof of citizenship, and it will also update US CIS databases in terms of his status. However, not having it is not the end of the world. The citizenship remains. They can not cancel it because you moved ;-)
If he was born in US, then he has his birth certificate and is anyway a citizen.
Either way, it is a small issue better taken care of now, but if you / he can do it after a couple of months / years, that would be fine too.
 
Yes, we are naturalized citizens, biological parents. Naturalized 11/10 and my son was born outside of US in 2006. He already has a passport. I am just wondering, if I applied N600 and then moved out of US... will his N600 be approved.
 
poornimat said:
Yes, we are naturalized citizens, biological parents. Naturalized 11/10 and my son was born outside of US in 2006. He already has a passport. I am just wondering, if I applied N600 and then moved out of US... will his N600 be approved.
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If you want him to have a certificate of citizenship, take care of it before leaving because you can't from abroad. It will be in the child's best interest to take care of it now. He can do it on his own as an adult in the future but the evidence will be hard to gather and it will be much more expensive.
 
poornimat said:
In the event, if my family and I move back to India before my son receives his certificate, can USCIS withhold his US citizenship on the basis of our move? On the form, there seems to be another interview!

THanks
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As others have said above, the best advice is to complete the entire N-600 process while still in the U.S.

Although the instructions to N-600 say that it can be filed by anyone who derived U.S. citizenship, in practice there is currently no mechanism for doing so from abroad. The N-600 instructions say that the form has to be filed at the DO responsible for the applicant's place of residence, which, although slightly indirectly, implies that it must be filed in the U.S.

There was a recent thread about someone who tried to file N-600 from abroad, but the application was immediately returned, see
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?318100-N-600-returned-back-%96-URGENT-%96-Pl-advise.

Interestingly, it appears that 10 years ago it was possible to file N-600 from abroad. There is an INS memo dated Feb 27, 2001 which says that at the time it was possible to file N-600 from abroad, and that an applicant residing abroad could file at any DO in the U.S.
http://www.ailc.com/publicaffairs/factsheets/chowto.htm
However, apparently, things have changed since then and now it is only possible to file N-600 while living in the U.S.

It is not clear what would happen if you and your son move abroad after filing N-600 but before it is adjudicated. But you really don't want to be taking chances here. Better have the entire process completed before moving abroad.
 
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