Citizenship

[Patra&Ricardo 4]

Hey Guys,

I have a Aunt who was adopted at the age of 11 by her aunt (who is my Grand Aunt) and she immigrated to the US in the 80s and is still a permanent resident up to this day. After being here for over 30 years she would

now like to acquire citizenship but we a little confused how she should go about it. Since her Aunt who adopted her was already a Citizen shouldn't she have gotten citizenship automatically or does she have to

now fill our the N400 and file on her own. Just some extra info, her adopted mom is now deceased.

Your help & advise is appreciated.

[Patra&Ricardo 4]

I would also like to know if when you apply for Citizenship can you leave the county on vacation for 2 weeks. My reason for asking is my hubby is eligible to apply for Citizenship in April however he is coming to visit me in Jamaica for his birthday in June. So should he go ahead and apply in April or apply when he gets back in June.

[Shub 78]

For your first question, let's see if it can be answered easily:

Go to http://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents and see if she fits in any of the listed categories.

For your second question, you are free to travel with a pending application for naturalization, just like normal. Just make sure to keep any appointments with USCIS during that time. You will have at least two appointments to keep, probably three:

1) Biometrics

2) Interview

3) Oath ceremony (some offices conduct same-day oath ceremonies, if so your ceremony would take place on the day of your interview).

You will receive mail from USCIS telling you where to go for each of those appointments, and when. Therefore:

- Someone would have to be at home to receive that mail

- If you will not be able to keep one of your appointments because you are out of the country, you need to reschedule it -- going back to my previous point, if nobody's home to get the mail, then you may not be able to reschedule in time, although if your absence is only going to be two weeks, you should be OK.

For your info, this was my naturalization timeline:

Packet mailed around November 18

Biometrics on December 24th

Interview on February 6th

Oath on February 10th (they told me the date for that on the spot after my interview)

So as you can see, there were more than two weeks between each event, or I had no opportunity to be unreachable between the events, so there was no issue there. Timelines for different offices and individual cases will vary, but just keep the above in mind.

[Pinkrlion 2,724]

Look at this checklist. http://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents

[Patra&Ricardo 4]

For your first question, let's see if it can be answered easily:

Go to http://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents and see if she fits in any of the listed categories.

For your second question, you are free to travel with a pending application for naturalization, just like normal. Just make sure to keep any appointments with USCIS during that time. You will have at least two appointments to keep, probably three:

1) Biometrics

2) Interview

3) Oath ceremony (some offices conduct same-day oath ceremonies, if so your ceremony would take place on the day of your interview).

You will receive mail from USCIS telling you where to go for each of those appointments, and when. Therefore:

- Someone would have to be at home to receive that mail

- If you will not be able to keep one of your appointments because you are out of the country, you need to reschedule it -- going back to my previous point, if nobody's home to get the mail, then you may not be able to reschedule in time, although if your absence is only going to be two weeks, you should be OK.

For your info, this was my naturalization timeline:

Packet mailed around November 18

Biometrics on December 24th

Interview on February 6th

Oath on February 10th (they told me the date for that on the spot after my interview)

So as you can see, there were more than two weeks between each event, or I had no opportunity to be unreachable between the events, so there was no issue there. Timelines for different offices and individual cases will vary, but just keep the above in mind.

Thanks so much for your reply, really appreciate it. Would you mind sharing with me the questions your were asked at your interview.

Look at this checklist. http://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents

Thanks Pink, I definitely will read up on it and inform my aunt.

[Shub 78]

Thanks so much for your reply, really appreciate it. Would you mind sharing with me the questions your were asked at your interview.

I don't mind at all, in fact I posted an account of what happened at my interview in a thread of its own, which includes the questions they asked me:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/479361-my-interview-experience-at-the-philadelphia-field-office-february-2014/

[Patra&Ricardo 4]

I don't mind at all, in fact I posted an account of what happened at my interview in a thread of its own, which includes the questions they asked me:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/479361-my-interview-experience-at-the-philadelphia-field-office-february-2014/

Thanks so much for your detailed account of your interview. It has surely help my hubby:-)