thescrub93
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Hi,
I am new here and wanted to get some advice on a few things, since I am kind of stuck at the moment.
Here is some information about myself:
I am currently a highschool student in europe
21 years of age
Native american-english speaker
I was raised american, most of my friends/neighborhood etc. I grew up with lived with their parents in US barracks.
I just had a call with an US-attorney 3 weeks ago, about my propects for acquiring my citizenship through derivative citizenship.
We talked about immigration and naturalization law and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and he stopped right away telling me I need to know the following information:
1. If my father and/or mother was/were U.S. citizen at birth.
Answer: I am pretty sure they were not.
2. In case 1. is NOT the case, if a grandparent is/was a U.S. citizen either at birth or through naturalization and had lived in the U.S. for the required period of time, before I became 18 of age.
Answer: I do not know.
I spent the last 3 weeks trying to find information about my grandparents and after a lot of researching, I have found out that my grandfather was in fact a long time U.S. resident in CA.
Neither did I ever meet nor did I know anything about him, except his name.
The first explicit thing I have found out, by searching extensively of course, is that he passed away in 2009(I was 16 back then)
I figured out the mortuary that held his funeral as well.
Now the thing is I need his obituaries and his citizenship (by either naturalization or at birth(most likely via naturalization through residency)).
The important thing in my case is that I need to figure out if he was a U.S. citizen or not.
How am I supposed to obtain the citizenship of my grandfather, whom I have never met before, while I am resident in europe?
I thought about going to an U.S. embassy but the one thats the most close-by, is very far away and I am not even sure if they could help me out in the first place.
Does anyone with experience/knowledge have any advice for me?
PS: I asked the mortuary if they could contact his next of kin and maybe contact me via e-mail but nothing reliable so far.
There must be some kind of archive/agency I can use to legally acquire information about my family tree and citizenships.
Best regards! Kind of worried right now
EDIT: I asked the lady from the mortuary, on the phone about any remant information/documents pertaining to my grandfather and she said, she had had my grandfathers socialsecurity number up until the case got closed, but she can not just give it away, in case she even managed to retrieve them, apparently because of legal reasons.
EDIT2: In case anyone NEEDS to know the exact location, it's Turlock, Stanislaus County/CA
I am new here and wanted to get some advice on a few things, since I am kind of stuck at the moment.
Here is some information about myself:
I am currently a highschool student in europe
21 years of age
Native american-english speaker
I was raised american, most of my friends/neighborhood etc. I grew up with lived with their parents in US barracks.
I just had a call with an US-attorney 3 weeks ago, about my propects for acquiring my citizenship through derivative citizenship.
We talked about immigration and naturalization law and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and he stopped right away telling me I need to know the following information:
1. If my father and/or mother was/were U.S. citizen at birth.
Answer: I am pretty sure they were not.
2. In case 1. is NOT the case, if a grandparent is/was a U.S. citizen either at birth or through naturalization and had lived in the U.S. for the required period of time, before I became 18 of age.
Answer: I do not know.
I spent the last 3 weeks trying to find information about my grandparents and after a lot of researching, I have found out that my grandfather was in fact a long time U.S. resident in CA.
Neither did I ever meet nor did I know anything about him, except his name.
The first explicit thing I have found out, by searching extensively of course, is that he passed away in 2009(I was 16 back then)
I figured out the mortuary that held his funeral as well.
Now the thing is I need his obituaries and his citizenship (by either naturalization or at birth(most likely via naturalization through residency)).
The important thing in my case is that I need to figure out if he was a U.S. citizen or not.
How am I supposed to obtain the citizenship of my grandfather, whom I have never met before, while I am resident in europe?
I thought about going to an U.S. embassy but the one thats the most close-by, is very far away and I am not even sure if they could help me out in the first place.
Does anyone with experience/knowledge have any advice for me?
PS: I asked the mortuary if they could contact his next of kin and maybe contact me via e-mail but nothing reliable so far.
There must be some kind of archive/agency I can use to legally acquire information about my family tree and citizenships.
Best regards! Kind of worried right now
EDIT: I asked the lady from the mortuary, on the phone about any remant information/documents pertaining to my grandfather and she said, she had had my grandfathers socialsecurity number up until the case got closed, but she can not just give it away, in case she even managed to retrieve them, apparently because of legal reasons.
EDIT2: In case anyone NEEDS to know the exact location, it's Turlock, Stanislaus County/CA
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