Help children of US citizen fathers born abroad get citizenship

[swede1 0]

Help me clear out the gender discrimination that is in effect.

Help US citizen fathers with children fathered abroad to transfer their citizenship to their kids.

http://www.gofundme.com/2fi3o8

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

Help me clear out the gender discrimination that is in effect.

Help US citizen fathers with children fathered abroad to transfer their citizenship to their kids.

http://www.gofundme.com/2fi3o8

Your father can petition you on an I130 if you don't get derived citizenship and you can come that way.

[swede1 0]

Your father can petition you on an I130 if you don't get derived citizenship and you can come that way.

Yes, with a 7+ year wait and 5 more years to get the citizenship.

I am just trying to make it gender equal! Mothers should not have it easier to transfer their citizenship than fathers, period.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I am not sure where you are getting the gender discrimination from. If either parent - father or mother - is a US citizen who meets certain residency requirements within the US, then a child born overseas to that parent has a claim to US citizenship. There have been different rules over the years but going back to 1934 either parent qualifies to pass on derivative citizenship to their child:

http://www.cuny.edu/..._Chart_C-09.pdf

Unless I'm missing something . . . ?

Also the link just leads to the general website. It doesn't lead to any particular project and a search for one on trying to help a US father get citizenship for his foreign born children did not reveal anything.

The father just needs to register their births overseas in the appropriate US consulate called Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA). The process is here: http://www.travel.st.../birth_593.html and as along as the father's own citizenship meets certain criteria he is able to pass it along to his children born overseas.

Edited March 28, 2013 by Kathryn41

[apple21 953]

It's more of "legitimation" issues. If a child is born out of wedlock to a US citizen father and alien mother, there are certain issues that must be addressed, not just the residency requirement of the USC father.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law

Do you fall under this provision?

For persons born between December 24, 1952 and November 14, 1986, a person is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true (except if born out-of-wedlock)

For persons born out-of-wedlock (mother) if all the following apply:

1. the mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of the person’s birth and
2. the mother was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the person’s birth.^[9] (See link for those born to a U.S. father out-of-wedlock)^[8]

and http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_5199.html

Birth Abroad Out-of-Wedlock to a U.S. Citizen Father – “Old” Section 309(a) of the INA- A child born out-of-wedlock to a U.S. citizen father may acquire U.S. citizenship under the former Section 301(a)(7) of the INA as made applicable by the “old” Section 309(a) of the INA if the U.S. citizen father, prior to the child’s birth, had been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for ten years, five of which were after the age of 14, and if the paternity of the child had been established by legitimation prior to the child reaching the age of 21. The “old” Section 309(a) of the INA is applicable to individuals who were 18 on November 14, 1986 and to individuals whose paternity had been established by legitimation prior to that date. Individuals who were at least 15 on November 14, 1986, but under the age of 18, could opt to have their claim determined in accordance with the provisions of either the “old” or the “new” Section 309(a).

It's more of "legitimation" issues. If a child is born out of wedlock to a US citizen father and alien mother, there are certain issues that must be addressed, not just the residency requirement of the USC father.

Exactly.

[apple21 953]

Its a lesson that the US government want to impart to all USC men, that they cannot father children from all over the world and transmit citizenship to those kids just like that.

And alien women should learn from it as well, being impregnated by a USC doesn't automatically get them (or their kids) US citizenship/immigration benefits.

[Boiler 45,670]

Spammer

Likely the fund raising has been deleted from that site for the same reason.