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petmydog

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Hi, i am currently 20 , and have a green card, my father became a US citizen about 4 years ago when i was 16. Is there any way i can claim US citizenship now that I'm 20 even though at the time when he received citizenship i was a minor?

Im wondering if this will work because i want to receive a US passport
 
As long as you were living with him in US at the time of his naturalization, and had a green card then, you are already a citizen. Becoming adult from minor did not change this fact.
 
petmydog said:
Hi, i am currently 20 , and have a green card, my father became a US citizen about 4 years ago when i was 16. Is there any way i can claim US citizenship now that I'm 20 even though at the time when he received citizenship i was a minor?
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Yes, if you had the green card before you turned 18 and were living with him in his physical and legal custody. Now that you're over 18, your challenge is with proving that those custody aspects were in effect back when you were under 18 with a green card.
 
Jackolantern said:
Now that you're over 18, your challenge is with proving that those custody aspects were in effect back when you were under 18 with a green card.
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Can he just file N400 and then tell the IO that he can not prove those custody aspect ?

Or such dialogue can go on

IO: "I have to deny your N-400 applicaiton because you are already a citizen. You shoudl file N 600"
the N400 applicant: "I can not prove custody aspect so I don't think I am a citizen that is why I apply for citizenship"
IO: "Yes, you are a citizen"
the N400 applicant:"No I am not"
IO: "Yes, you are a citizen"
the N400 applicant:"No I am not"
IO: "Yes, you are a citizen"
the N400 applicant:"No I am not"

IO: "OK. Prove to me that your father did not have your custody whne your father was natualized"
the N400 applicant:"I can neither prove he has custory nor can I prove he did not have custoidy"

IO: "If you can not prove your father did not have custory then you are a citizen"
the N400 applicant:"OK"

The applicant withdraw and filed N-600 and then run into teh same IO.

This time the IP insist the pplicant could npt prove the father had the custody of him and advised him to withdraw N400
and file N400.

This goes on forever
 
Why file N-400 if he can find the papers to prove custody? It wasn't that long ago when s/he was still a minor; the papers shouldn't be impossible to find, even if it's difficult.
 
Jackolantern said:
Why file N-400 if he can find the papers to prove custody? It wasn't that long ago when s/he was still a minor; the papers shouldn't be impossible to find, even if it's difficult.
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What papers? If parents get custody in dovorvce proceeding, they may have papers, but if children just grow upo woth parents, what papers do parent have? Does it mean the parents go to high school their children go to
and get any paper that have thei rsignatures
 
WBH said:
What papers? If parents get custody in dovorvce proceeding, they may have papers, but if children just grow upo woth parents, what papers do parent have? Does it mean the parents go to high school their children go to
and get any paper that have thei rsignatures
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If both parents lived together with the child, custody is presumed unless they are unmarried and some document specifically gives custody to only one parent (or to somebody else in the household, like a grandparent).
 
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Jackolantern said:
Why file N-400 if he can find the papers to prove custody?
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Fee for N-400 is higher. If N-600 fee is higher and processing time is longer, there is advanatge in filing N400

Some children may also think filing N-400 themselves give themseles a sense of indenpendence even after
18 years old.

Of course I am not aware if longer duration on citizenshipo has any advantage in job application etc
 
thanx for the replies guys, but what if i got my green card 1 year after my father became a citizen? it wont work then would it?
 
It would not work.
[EDIT] Sorry, that sounds wrong in the light of Baikal's and Jack's comments.
 
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petmydog said:
thanx for the replies guys, but what if i got my green card 1 year after my father became a citizen? it wont work then would it?
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If you were under 18 at the time, and met the custody conditions either on the day you got the GC or sometime after that before your 18th birthday, yes you would still derive citizenship through him.
 
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