Kids passport & green card

[Citi4 0]

Hi,

During the oath day, we give back our green card and we can order the passport.

What about the kids:

1) Do I need to bring the kids green card with me?

2) Can I order passport for them at the same time?

3) They don't need to come with me to the oath, right?

[JimmyHou 611]

Hi,

During the oath day, we give back our green card and we can order the passport.

What about the kids:

1) Do I need to bring the kids green card with me?

2) Can I order passport for them at the same time?

3) They don't need to come with me to the oath, right?

No, your kids will not take the oath of citizenship at your ceremony. They also will not give up their green cards at your ceremony. Your oath ceremony is for you alone.

If your kids are under the age of 18, on the day that you become a citizen, then they automatically acquire citizenship through you. However, they will not get a naturalization certificate since they are ineligible to apply through N400 process. They are not required to attend the ceremony.

If you want, you can obtain a certificate of citizenship for them by filing an N600. However, this is not a requirement and they are US citizens with or without the certificate of citizenship. What you can do alternatively, is to just go to the passport office and using their birth certificates, their green cards, and your naturalization certificate you can apply for passports for them directly.

Since the certificate of citizenship or the passport both serve as proof of citizenship, it is completely up to you whether or not to apply for a certificate of citizenship through an N600 application.

Edited January 27, 2015 by JimmyHou

[Citi4 0]

Thank you very much explaining this process.

If I apply for passport at oath, then I need to wait for the passports + certificate to come back in the mail and only then I can apply for kids, right?

[JimmyHou 611]

Thank you very much explaining this process.

If I apply for passport at oath, then I need to wait for the passports + certificate to come back in the mail and only then I can apply for kids, right?

Many oath ceremonies don't have a place for you to apply for a passport I'm not sure about your location. But if they are accepting passport applications at the oath ceremony, they should also let you apply for your kids right there.

Otherwise, if they won't accept the kids' applications there For whatever reason Then you can just wait and go to an application facility and apply for all your passports together the next day.

If you absolutely have to send off your application that day, and they won't take the kids' application that day, then yes you will have to wait until you get your naturalization certificate back.

Edited January 27, 2015 by JimmyHou

[Mrs O. 29]

I applied for my passport and for my kids on the same day. The passport office understood the process. The only glitch was that I didn't send the kids' green cards with the application and the passport office wrote back asking for them. I sent those and the passports were issued. I got my passport less than 2 weeks after applying (no expedite) and theirs came a little over a week later.