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N-400 or N-600

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jpdcands   0

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Hello All,

My wife (Ukraine) is taking her naturalization oath the 13th of October - FINALLY !!!

She has a 16 year old daughter (my step-daughter) - do we need to file the N-400 or the N-600?

And is it absolutely necessary for her (my step-daughter) to have this certificate - she will have her US passport?

Thanks,

Paul

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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The N-400 is an application to become a US citizen.

The N-600 is for people who are already US citizens. It only documents what is already the case.

Once your wife becomes a US citizen, her daughter (if under 21 years of age and a Green Card holder herself) becomes a US citizen automatically. She will be a US citizen then, it just needs to be documented. That is what the N-600 is for. It claims what is already rightfully hers (at that time). With the Certificate of Citizenship in hand, she can apply for a US passport.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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NickD   203

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The N-400 is an application to become a US citizen.

The N-600 is for people who are already US citizens. It only documents what is already the case.

Once your wife becomes a US citizen, her daughter (if under 21 years of age and a Green Card holder herself) becomes a US citizen automatically. She will be a US citizen then, it just needs to be documented. That is what the N-600 is for. It claims what is already rightfully hers (at that time). With the Certificate of Citizenship in hand, she can apply for a US passport.

Actually its under 18 rather than 21 for tailgating the parent. To the best of my knowledge, wish I experienced this since our daughter turned 18 before we could apply, they give the certificate to the parent, but not the child or children, an extra 400 bucks to get that. Green card was only 80 bucks extra.

 
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