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[queng 5]

Hi Im a bit of confused please somebody help me!!

should I apply for naturalization first or should I petition my daughter first????

somebody told me that if I become citizen I cant get my daughter anymore... IS THIS TRUE???

By the way my daughter is under 18 yrs. old

[apple21 953]

Hi Im a bit of confused please somebody help me!!

should I apply for naturalization first or should I petition my daughter first????

somebody told me that if I become citizen I cant get my daughter anymore... IS THIS TRUE??? -- NO. You can file a petition for your daughter anytime.

By the way my daughter is under 18 yrs. old

Your USC husband (as step-dad) can file for your daughter now (if your marriage took place before her 16th birthday).

If you file for her now, she will be under the F2A category (Unmarried child below 21 of LPR) with a waiting time of 2 and a half years. When you become USC (I assume next year 2014), you can upgrade the petition to IR2 (Unmarried child below 21 of US Citizen) so a visa will become immediately available for her.

Edited May 1, 2013 by apple21

[NickD 203]

The conditions for a US citizen to petition for a step child, is that child has to be under 21 years old and unmarried. There was no way my wife to be was to leave her 14 year old daughter behind, and if she did, I wouldn't have thought very much of my wife to be, so I petitioned for both at the same time. In attempting to get permission from that don't give a damn about his daughter permission to bring her here, added another six months to our process. But we stuck it out.

In the frustration going through all this, wife to be asked me if I still love her, LOL, even today telling her I still love her. But during this time, we learned we could really work together. Reminded me of the olden days when you needed the permission of the parents to get married, this time was the USCIS.

The real big hangup now is that crazy NVC, who in the hell are they? An executive controlled agency that now is far more interested in bringing here people from the middle east that supposingly helped us with our battles there, or people from Africa, the hell with Latin America. Wife did have an unmarried son over 21 that I could not petition for, but she could when she became a LPR. That we did, and also reported she is a US citizen now, but still waiting over six years now.

One word that is certainly not in the USCIS, NVC vocabulary is "family" and keeping them together. Our key problem is that Venezuela kicked out the American ambassator, and our leader in turn kicked out the Venezuelan ambassator from the US. Us low insignificant people can get along fine, but our leaders cannot. Makes me wonder why we need leaders.

Children under the age of 21 are suppose to have prioty with the NVC, all you can do is have your husband apply, file your I-130 with proof he is married to you and that child is indeed yours, If under 18, may need permission from that other biological parent if one exists. Was told by my immigration attorney, the best proof is the biological parent;s death certificate, just replied, don't tempt me. As it was, he was seven years behind in child support payments, we gave him a choice, etiher pay up or give his permission. He gave his permission.