CrazyCanuck
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Hi all, thank you in advance for considering this post and passing along whatever advice you may have.
I'm a U.S. citizen born and living abroad in Ontario, Canada. I obtained my citizenship through my parents, who were also born abroad. My mother has never lived in the U.S. and my father briefly lived in the U.S. as a young man in the early 1950s.
I have an older sister who is interested in also pursuing a citizenship claim. She is my biological half-sister as we have the same mother. My parents were married when my sister was six years old and my father legally adopted her when she was 11. She is now 45 years old, born in 1963 in Ontario, and has lived in this province her entire life.
I have searched high and low, inside and out, trying to determine if my sister would automatically have become a citizen upon her adoption by my father. Of course she is not covered by the Child Citizenship Act but at the time of her adoption she certainly would have fit the definition of "child" under Section 101(b)(1)(E) of the INA. That said, I have been unable to clarify whether that definition and the subsequent establishment of the necessary parent-child relationship between my father and my sister is sufficient to classify her under Section 301(c), which was the sub-section I used to prove my own citizenship claim.
Any documents, forms and laws I have seen do not seem to touch upon such a case, which can basically be summed up as: child of a U.S. citizen mother and alien father is subsequently adopted by a U.S. citizen father who resided in the U.S. prior to her birth. It looks promising to me but I just can't find any statute that would seem to address our situation.
Can anyone help? Again, thank you in advance!
CrazyCanuck
I'm a U.S. citizen born and living abroad in Ontario, Canada. I obtained my citizenship through my parents, who were also born abroad. My mother has never lived in the U.S. and my father briefly lived in the U.S. as a young man in the early 1950s.
I have an older sister who is interested in also pursuing a citizenship claim. She is my biological half-sister as we have the same mother. My parents were married when my sister was six years old and my father legally adopted her when she was 11. She is now 45 years old, born in 1963 in Ontario, and has lived in this province her entire life.
I have searched high and low, inside and out, trying to determine if my sister would automatically have become a citizen upon her adoption by my father. Of course she is not covered by the Child Citizenship Act but at the time of her adoption she certainly would have fit the definition of "child" under Section 101(b)(1)(E) of the INA. That said, I have been unable to clarify whether that definition and the subsequent establishment of the necessary parent-child relationship between my father and my sister is sufficient to classify her under Section 301(c), which was the sub-section I used to prove my own citizenship claim.
Any documents, forms and laws I have seen do not seem to touch upon such a case, which can basically be summed up as: child of a U.S. citizen mother and alien father is subsequently adopted by a U.S. citizen father who resided in the U.S. prior to her birth. It looks promising to me but I just can't find any statute that would seem to address our situation.
Can anyone help? Again, thank you in advance!
CrazyCanuck