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Hi! I need some help or advice about US citizenship.

This is the story, I am a LPR for about 25 years and finally I decided to become a US citizen, so I’m about to send all my paperwork sometime December for my citizenship. I want to bring my family (wife, daughter [15 years old] and son [6 years old]) to the States to finally reside with me. I was married on 1996 and both of my children were born after we were legally married. I filed form I-130 for them as a LPR back in 2005 and finally, they have their appointments at the US consulate at CDJ (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) in early January 2013, I know it took so long, but that was on my end with the National Visa Center.

Now my question is, what can I do or what do I have to file for my children for them to become US citizen after I become one? I know this will happen probably around spring time on 2013, so by then, they will be here with me as LPR.

Thank you much for your help…

If more info is needed, please let me know, advices are more than welcome.

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Nothing.

The will become permanent residents and thus Green Card holders the moment they are "admitted" to the United States, which happens at the airport or at the border. The moment they establish residency with you, which is when you come home and show them their beds, they become US citizens based on the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. It think that's crazy, but that's the law.

I suggest you wait for their Green Cards to arrive in the mail, then head over to the passport office and order US passports for them. Even a passport card for $30 +$25 fees would work for now. That's all the documentation for US citizenship ever needed.

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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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