N400/N600/Green Card?!

[EM_Vandaveer 2,448]

Hi,

1. My daughter is a legal permanent resident. She came on an immigrant visa, and was immediately given a green card upon entry.

2. The UCIS officer told us since I (her father) was a citizen, she should apply for the N600, She was born in 12/11/1987. She arrived in the US on 11/10/2009. Making her 21 at the time of arrival.

3. I was a citizen before she was born. I recieved my certificate of citizenship from Puerto Rico where I lived for almost a decade. I went to Jordan, and she was born there. She was never in the states when she was under 18.

I'm just as confused! I paid all the fees, and then the UCIS officer told me I couldn't do it. I want to make sure what to do before paying an extra $600 for the N600.

If you were a citizen before she was born, why could you not transmit citizenship to her? Did you not have 5 years of physical presence yet?

You should have filed for a CRBA for her when she was born.

Edited September 16, 2016 by EM_Vandaveer

[EM_Vandaveer 2,448]

Somebody is making a mistake. There are two possible scenarios:

1) your daughter was USC at birth. In this case DoS/the Consulate made a mistake by giving her a visa. She should have been given a US passport.

2) she was not a USC at birth. In this case USCIS is making a mistake and she's eligible for naturalization.

Edited September 16, 2016 by EM_Vandaveer

[vanhiscers87 46]

Now that makes sense; check out this web page: www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents

The idea is simple:

IF you should file N-600, you'll have to prove you'd lived in the U.S. or any of its territories for a continuous 5-year period before her birth; in our case, it's Puerto Rico. The difficulty is that it's so long ago, it's hard for you to gather documents that can prove your life there (lease, paystubs, utility bills).

I strongly suggest you seek legal assistance, because what made your case more complicated is that USCIS recognized your daughter as a citizen, but the consulate who gave her a visa obviously didn't. Therefore, does the federal government recognize her citizenship or not? That's the question need to be answered before filing anything.

Hi,

1. My daughter is a legal permanent resident. She came on an immigrant visa, and was immediately given a green card upon entry.

2. The UCIS officer told us since I (her father) was a citizen, she should apply for the N600, She was born in 12/11/1987. She arrived in the US on 11/10/2009. Making her 21 at the time of arrival.

3. I was a citizen before she was born. I recieved my certificate of citizenship from Puerto Rico where I lived for almost a decade. I went to Jordan, and she was born there. She was never in the states when she was under 18.

I'm just as confused! I paid all the fees, and then the UCIS officer told me I couldn't do it. I want to make sure what to do before paying an extra $600 for the N600.

[abuammar 0]

Now that makes sense; check out this web page: www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents

The idea is simple:

IF you should file N-600, you'll have to prove you'd lived in the U.S. or any of its territories for a continuous 5-year period before her birth; in our case, it's Puerto Rico. The difficulty is that it's so long ago, it's hard for you to gather documents that can prove your life there (lease, paystubs, utility bills).

I strongly suggest you seek legal assistance, because what made your case more complicated is that USCIS recognized your daughter as a citizen, but the consulate who gave her a visa obviously didn't. Therefore, does the federal government recognize her citizenship or not? That's the question need to be answered before filing anything.

I don't have proof of my physical presence. I HAVE lived in the US for over 5 years, but the proof I provide is not accepted. I have given them my Social Security Statement, my old passports with the stamps, and I have shown them my drivers licenses. They say they need IRS/W2/Utility Bills, which I don't have/can't get. She would be a citizen if I could get proof. We even went and tried getting her a US Passport right away, but they wanted proof, and didn't accept the proof I showed them.

[vanhiscers87 46]

Where did you go to try to get the passport? County clerk's office? Post office? To those people, they're probably trained to only recognize birth certificate, an old passport, a Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship.

From what I've read here, it's possible to get a passport without a Certificate of Citizenship, that's why I said you need legal assistance. A lawyer would know where to present whatever you had.

Even if you still wanna try an inexpensive way yourself, you probably have a better chance mailing in the passport application, and probably want to include all the evidence you could get to prove your daughter's nationality. (her birth certificate, your certificate of naturalization, your old passports, statement of the whole situation, print-outs of actual law that explains why your daughter may already be a citizen, USCIS N-400 denial notice with stated reason for denial...)

I don't have proof of my physical presence. I HAVE lived in the US for over 5 years, but the proof I provide is not accepted. I have given them my Social Security Statement, my old passports with the stamps, and I have shown them my drivers licenses. They say they need IRS/W2/Utility Bills, which I don't have/can't get. She would be a citizen if I could get proof. We even went and tried getting her a US Passport right away, but they wanted proof, and didn't accept the proof I showed them.

[muzicme4u 0]

/if you were a citizen before she was born then she is automatically a citizen and needs to file N600

[EM_Vandaveer 2,448]

/if you were a citizen before she was born then she is automatically a citizen and needs to file N600

Incorrect. Only if he has 5 years of physical presence in the US, two of those after age 14 and can prove that.