Need Advice - N400 and N600K applications

[weekender_in]

Hi -

My wife and I completed 5 years after our green card and are planning to apply for our N400 in the Newark, NJ office in March. Can i simultaneously apply for my daughter's N600K application along with our application or do we have to wait until we get our citizenship?

 

[nkm-oct23]

Why are you wasting money on N600? Your daughter (if she is under 18) is automatically a US citizen the day you take your citizenship oath! Simply get her a US passport when you get yours and that is all she needs. There is NO legal requirement to file N-600 at all.
N600K is for adopted children and even they automatically get US citizenship when you naturalize.

 

[WBH]

Wait until you or your wife is naturalized whoever come first. It seems that is the case although I don't understand why on the oath letter there
is a checkbox "If the naturalization application is on behalf of your child (children), bring your child (children)." (http://worldimmigrationcenter.com/PDF/N-445.PDF)

Maybe that is for adopted foreign child getting the citizenship?

 

[Jackolantern]

My wife and I completed 5 years after our green card and are planning to apply for our N400 in the Newark, NJ office in March. Can i simultaneously apply for my daughter's N600K application along with our application or do we have to wait until we get our citizenship?

You have to wait until you become a US citizen. Also, N-600K is for a child who lives abroad, not for a child living with you in the US.

 

[weekender_in]

Thanks guys ! This helps.

 

[Huracan]

If your daughter has a Green Card and lives with you in the US, which I assume she does, she will become a citizen automatically when you and/or your wife takes the oath. N-600 is an application to obtain a certificate of citizenship for her. Some people think it is a waste of money, some don't. It is not mandatory and many people will live a happy life without it. However, it creates a permanent record of her citizenship with USCIS and it is a document that doesn't expire. It will be easier to apply for one when she becomes a citizen than many years down the road if she'd need one. By the way N-600 can be filed only after she becomes a citizen, i.e. any moment after you or your wife take the oath and she becomes an automatic citizen under the child citizenship act of 2000.

 

[saf]

Why are you wasting money on N600? Your daughter (if she is under 18) is automatically a US citizen the day you take your citizenship oath! Simply get her a US passport when you get yours and that is all she needs. There is NO legal requirement to file N-600 at all.
N600K is for adopted children and even they automatically get US citizenship when you naturalize.

Nkm-oct23 is correct. Applying for N600 is only optional (not required), but it is useful as a backup. For example, a person lost her/his US passport. s/he can use N-600 (certificate of citizenship) to prove that s/he is a US citizen in order to apply for another new US passport.

 

[nkm-oct23]

Nkm-oct23 is correct. Applying for N600 is only optional (not required), but it is useful as a backup. For example, a person lost her/his US passport. s/he can use N-600 (certificate of citizenship) to prove that s/he is a US citizen in order to apply for another new US passport.

.. or get a US passport card with your US passport at an incremental cost of $10 (valid for 5 years) for a child. The passport card is a useful backup citizenship document and can be used to prove US citizenship in case the passport booklet is lost. It is also easier to carry and care for when compared to the 8½ by 11 size paper certificate of citizenship.