sweetbabe

Sounds like a good plan! As a U.S. citizen, she must present herself as such when she goes through U.S. immigration so she really shouldn't use her Philippine passport to enter the U.S. as Alaska2012 said. In any case, you should ask the U.S. embassy how to proceed - maybe they can extend the validity of her passport just to allow her to return to the U.S. once the adoption is finalized?

hello, just want to know if anybody here from the Philippines filed a sole custody for their child. My case is, me and my kids are now a naturalized us citizen but because the child is using their biological dads last name and he is listed on their birth certificate as a father the dept of state gives them a temporary passport valid for 1 year and request me to provide a sole custody court order so the kids can get us passport without restriction. dept of state gives me 3 months to provide documentation and me and the kids will fly to the philippines next month to file a petition for sole custody. their dad sign an affidavit already giving up his right for the kids but Dept of State dont recongnize it because its not a court order. my question is, how long does it take to file sole custody in the PH.I only have 3 months to get it or my kids passport is void.Please share your information.Thanks!

thank you lmatos1978

Only a handful of district offices offer same-day naturalization ceremonies. Even then, it doesn't mean you will naturalize that day. You're required to inform USCIS and have 10 days of moving to inform them. If you receive subsequent correspondence in the mail (for same-day naturalization as it was in my case, the last correspondence from USCIS in the post was indeed my interview letter) for RFEs, etc., they will mail it to you to whatever address you have in their system. If you do not change your address, they will continue to send posts to your old address and you may miss time-sensitive documents from them, which in turn, may delay and/or jeopardize your application.
In other words, here you go: https://egov.uscis.gov/coa/displayCOAForm.do