US Passport question

[Zw1]

Hi all
Just a quick question or two.. y'all didnt think I would ask just 1!

To apply for a child's passport do we need originals of her birth certificate and our marriage certificate?

Once one parent has been naturalized, the child is also a citizen. So, can we concurrently file for a passport for her the day we do or do we need to get ours first?

Third, do we need to get the N600 before applying for a passport?

Fourth, i noticed that not all places require an appointment or at least do not say they do, so I am assuming the ones that dont say anything other than hours of business dont need an apointment.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Flydog]

Check out the passport application form ( http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/79955.pdf). At the top of Page 2 of the instructions is a note about what you need if you are applying for a child of a naturalized citizen.

• APPLICANTS BORN OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES Submit a previous U.S. passport, Certificate of Naturalization, Certificate of Citizenship, Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or evidence described below.
  1. If You Claim Citizenship Through Naturalization of Parent(s). Submit the Certificate(s) of Naturalization of your parent(s), your foreign birth certificate, and proof of your admission to the United States for permanent residence.

It doesn't ask for a marriage certificate. However, one of the requirements is that the child be "legitimate". My wife and I have differing last names (as is custom where we come from). After we submitted our daughter's passport application, the state department folks came back and asked us to submit our marriage certificate to prove her "legitimacy". So, it's probably a good idea to include it.

We couldn't figure out how to convince either of the two local post offices near us to accept two applications (mother and daughter) that are based on the same naturalization certificate. So, we applied for my daughter first (she was going to be traveling soon after my wife's ceremony) and then my wife. At least one person on this forum successfully submitted two applications with one certificate - but it wasn't obvious what the trick was.

No, you don't need to submit an N-600 application first. Nor do you need to submit an N-600 at all - a passport is considered proof of citizenship. We got ours so that our daughter will a piece of unexpiring "root evidence" that she can use for the rest of her life (so that she will no longer need to prove that she was 17 and living at home on the day her mother naturalized in 2006).

The N-600 process only requires a copy of the parent's naturalization certificate. As a result, you can apply for both the passport and the N-600 simultaneously (the passport process is fast, the N-600 is a USCIS form - so, it is *slow*).

Before my wife's oath ceremony (mine, by the way was 5 or 6 months later) I went to the various passport acceptance locations near us (2 post offices and one other place) and simply asked what their local procedures were.