Strange Response from IO for minors who derive citizenship from parents

[bks43wa]

Hello All,
We became US citizens on Dec 3, 2009. Subsequently, under the Child Citizenship Act, our two minor children were granted citizenship. We have all received the US passports from teh Dept of State. We had applied for the Certificate of Citizenship (N-600) for our minor children on Dec 12, 2009. We received the Certificate of Citizenship on Jan 30 2010, for my son who is 11 years old but for my daughter who is 15 years old there will an oath ceremony where the Cetificate will be issued.
On speaking with an IO we were surprised to know that just because our minor children got their US passports from the State Dept, does not mean that it will show up as citizenship status on the Dept of Homeland Security database. The minor children would still be listed as "permanent residents" . He went on to say that only after the issuance of Certificate of Citizenship would it updated retrospectively as US citizens in their database. In other words, Dept of State does not update the Dept of Homeland Security. Any thoughts?

Any expert would like to throw in their experience?

Thank you.
Regards,
BKS43WA

 

[sanjoseaug20]

No experience, but what the IO is talking about purely a database update. In this day and age, many computer systems (more so across department boundaries) do not have consistent data - and that is just part of life. Remember having to change your phone number with the bank, and with the credit card division of the same bank, the mortgage division of the same bank and it still not getting done in all places.

From a "true status" perspective - that is - travel etc., - it should not be an issue

 

[nkm-oct23]

When your children travel abroad and return with a US passport, USCIS will make a note of this and update their database.

 

[GungaDin]

Hello All,
We became US citizens on Dec 3, 2009. Subsequently, under the Child Citizenship Act, our two minor children were granted citizenship. We have all received the US passports from teh Dept of State. We had applied for the Certificate of Citizenship (N-600) for our minor children on Dec 12, 2009. We received the Certificate of Citizenship on Jan 30 2010, for my son who is 11 years old but for my daughter who is 15 years old there will an oath ceremony where the Cetificate will be issued.
On speaking with an IO we were surprised to know that just because our minor children got their US passports from the State Dept, does not mean that it will show up as citizenship status on the Dept of Homeland Security database. The minor children would still be listed as "permanent residents" . He went on to say that only after the issuance of Certificate of Citizenship would it updated retrospectively as US citizens in their database. In other words, Dept of State does not update the Dept of Homeland Security. Any thoughts?

Any expert would like to throw in their experience?

Thank you.
Regards,
BKS43WA

Dept of State is different from Dept of Homeland Security so this is not unexpected.
BTW, this is also the reason why one can be refused entry with a Valid visa. (State issues the visa and DHS is the one that allows you entry into the US and technically DHS can choose not to honor a Dept of State document)