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I have a very similar situation and consulted the U.S embassy here who informed me to either obtain a motorised letter from the father or a court order to remove my 5 year old child from the U.K. Four weeks and one court order later my child is allowed to leave the U.K and move to U.S and I can change her last name to mine (ironically childs father is a U.S citizen who resides in America and pays me a huge amount of child support but does not want his child to live in America)

Best of luck and I hope everything works out as you seem to be an amazing father and this little boy is very lucky.

Congratulations! It seems we're both headed to Denver!

Thank you. Did three trips last year to finally convince myself to take the plunge and move. I LOVE it.

Denver here we come

Congratulations! It seems we're both headed to Denver!

Oh dear. Keeping my fingers crossed for you that they speed up.

We are with Texas the slow centre !!! ;-(

Wow I hope so what service centre were you ??

California. Hoping the next stage is just as speedy.

Mine was pretty far off. NOA 2 yesterday instead of end February to mid March. Much quicker than expected as I only relieved NOA 1 on 10th January.

Wow that was fast! Congrats. We're still waiting....according to VJ the estimated date of adjudication is mid-March for us.

Mine was end of February to mid March. Things seem to be moving quickly for us now.

I use a notary in London frequently. She charges around £75 per document. Very pleasant woman and I have used her for over two years now. However, I have just received my NOA 2 and I did NOT notarise our letters.

Received my NOA 2 yesterday which also happened to be my daughters 6th birthday!!! So excited and pleased.

Onto the next stage

And I just received my NOA 1 at 9pm GMT

Hi pmarshall,

I filed on the 3rd January 2014 which was received on 7th (delay due to weather)

Have just looked at my Chase bank account to discover my cheque has been cashed

One step closer.

Good luck.

Well it worked very well for me with possibly the most uncooperative human being that ever existed. The U.K court had nothing to do with it. I applied via U.S court, filed U.S issued paperwork and received U.S dollar cheques every week via mail until I opened a bank account last month so it's pretty obvious it does work. All I had was a name, address, place of work and social security number to apply. I appeared in U.S court via telephone twice and attended court in New York once as I happened to be visiting at the time. The magistrate did my acknowledgement of Paternity followed by child support.

The local court has no authority over a child not in the US and the non US court has no authority over a parent not in country. You girlfriend is learning the issues of getting pregnant by a man that can move outside the authority of the local legal system. Unless the father co operates your friend is out of luck. There is no method to force him into DNA unless he returns to the local court or your friend gets residency in the US and is able to petition via US courts.

Very untrue as I have never been a US citizen or any kind of residency for U.S yet I successfully applied for Acknowledgement of Paternity and Child Support from the U.K and got both.

They will do it by phone. If you call the local family court they will explain how to do the paperwork. Most of it can be printed off online. I appeared once in person in court and then twice more by phone from lawyers office.

Hi. I have a similar situation and here is what I did.

1) went to the local family court of the City father lived in and filed for child support. As my daughters father had refused to sign anything regarding our child the magistrate of the court ordered a DNA test or he would have to acknowledge paternity. On our first meeting in court he admitted paternity without a DNA test. After two more visits to court I received signed paperwork stating who my child's father was and back dated child support until she is 21 paid every week by cheque. CRBA can be done with paternity acknowledgement if you can prove he was a citizen long enough to transmit citizenship which is what I am doing at the moment.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Well done everyone. Emails sent from two accounts and getting friends and family to send it too. We can make this happen.

Great idea. I never thought to file for Consular Report of Birth. They will deny it almost certainly so I will hopefully be able to file I-130 after our Christmas visit. You are a genius :)

Thank you for all your replys. The website states if the child has no claim to US citizenship they can apply for I130. That's my interpretation of it anyway

Thank you for all of your replies. So there lies our issue. She cannot have an I130 filed for her either as she has claim to US citizenship. She is kind of in somewhere in the middle.

We have a court order stating support is granted until 21, an acknowledgment of paternity issued by the court and his social security number. Time to get a lawyer involved I think.

Hi everyone. I am new here and in need of help.

I have a 5 year daughter who was born in the UK with a US citizen . He refuses to see her however I have paperwork from the Family Court in New York stating he is the father (no DNA tests were done), he pays a large amount of child support every week which I receive in the UK and his name is on her birth certificate. My new husband is about to file our I130 and came across a hurdle stating that we can only apply for my daughter if she has no claim to US citizenship. My ex refuses to sign ANY paperwork for our daughter for anything so we are stuck. Is she a citizen?

Any suggestions on what to do would be greatly appreciated.

(Also we have entered America via various ports for the past 5 years in excess of 20 times for periods of up to 8 weeks on holidays and only one immigration officer has said she should have a US passport and should take me to secondary processing!)