A Bit of a Mind Twister

[JoeKwa 8]

Good Morning Everyone,

I have a question and I wanted to turn to you guys to see if I can get some advice. My wife is from Colombia who arrived on a CR-1 Visa in October of 2012. We have been going through the motions but lately an idea has risen and I was curious if I could go anywhere with it. My wife was born to a U.S. citizen in Colombia which, if I interpret it correctly, makes her a U.S. citizen. Sadly though her father took off on her and her mother when my wife was very young and essentially vanished back into the U.S. No paperwork was filed when my wife was born with the Embassy in Bogota and her father (who we recently found) has been difficult to work with and does not seem to eager to help us out. My mother in law still has all of the original paperwork such as marriage license, marriage certificate, my wife's birth certificate all with my father in law's signature on them. My question is can I pursue citizenship for my wife without the help of her father and how could we go about starting this? As of this moment we are waiting to start the removal of her conditions and we were wondering if the fact that she was born abroad to a U.S. citizen in 1987 makes her a citizen.

[apple21 953]

This might help, for starters: http://bogota.usembassy.gov/baqualifications.html

[JoeKwa 8]

Thank you very much Apple. I think if her mother sends us every bit of paperwork that she has regarding the marriage and birth and anything that has his signature on it then we have a chance. I will run this by my wife in the morning.

[Penguin_ie 5,992]

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