Withdrawing a N600 application

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JORGE26US

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My daughter became American thru the Child Citizenship Act 2000 three years ago, where she got her American passport. I was told I needed to process form N-600 for her. I submitted the form a couple of months ago. Now, I received a letter for the N600 interview. I had thought this was an automatic process and my daughter would not have to assist to any interview. My daughter is out of the country and will be for a period of a year or more. My question is if I can withdraw the case since my daughter is not here and reapply two years later. I call the 1-800 for USCIS and they say that I have to state the reasons for them to consider the withdrawing. Why is it too complicated if my daughter is American? I do not know when my daughter will be back so I can no tell which dates. Can somebody help? Can this process jeopardize her citizenship. Is there any penalty? PLease I need an answer. Maybe it is simple but I need to answer the letter a.s.a.p.
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JORGE26US said:
My daughter became American thru the Child Citizenship Act 2000 three years ago, where she got her American passport. I was told I needed to process form N-600 for her. I submitted the form a couple of months ago. Now, I received a letter for the N600 interview. I had thought this was an automatic process and my daughter would not have to assist to any interview. My daughter is out of the country and will be for a period of a year or more. My question is if I can withdraw the case since my daughter is not here and reapply two years later. I call the 1-800 for USCIS and they say that I have to state the reasons for them to consider the withdrawing. Why is it too complicated if my daughter is American? I do not know when my daughter will be back so I can no tell which dates. Can somebody help? Can this process jeopardize her citizenship. Is there any penalty? PLease I need an answer. Maybe it is simple but I need to answer the letter a.s.a.p.
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Your daughter is already a US citizen and USCIS cannot take that away from her since USCIS did not grant her citizenship in the first place, the US congress did thru CCA. Her citizenship does not depend on getting a certificate of citizenship by filing N-600. If you withdraw the application you lose the fees you paid, nothing else changes.

There is no legal or statutory requirement that children deriving US citizenship under CCA obtain a certificate of citizenship or have their status recognized by USCIS. This is the opinion of USCIS itself - they recommend getting a US passport for the child and recommend a certificate of citizenship as an additional document.
 
I don't see any penalty, you'll just lose your money. I would say that you should go to the interview and explain the situation they might still issue the certificate. Some certificates are issued without interview, some are issued after interview. I don't know what is the criteria to schedule the interview (age?).
 
I think children 14-18 years old are required to take an oath as part of N-600 process. I am not so sure of this though.
 
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