OmarStuck

In my experience, we got the green card in July/August 2021 and had the interview in January 2022. We used the DC office. I do not think you would need to travel too many times so it would not be worth the travel document.

I have not done this because my children live with myself and my wife. I do not think this is necessary unless you there is a divorce/separation/death involved.

Thanks for adding your experience. It seems that the grandfather is required to attend as per most of the posts. My father was not required and that could possibly be due to COVID 19 restrictions at the time. I may edit my original post to reflect that if more people post that the grandfather was required.

You are allowed to travel internationally on your other passport. As I mentioned, they prefer you to travel on the American passport. When my wife went to apply for the passport, she was told at the embassy that she shouldn't have travelled without the American passport but it was not a big deal. Bring all the original documents that you submitted. They are scheduling your interview on the basis of what you have submitted.

We went back overseas and applied for the passport. As I mentioned, they prefer that you leave the country with the US passport in hand.

Yes, it is a good sign. Easy questions about the marriage, time spent in the US, etc. Have you done fingerprinting? We had a special case as mentioned above. We were in the US visiting family anyways and we're able to do it in a different field office.

Oath was in the same day as the interview. You just need 1 day for the oath and interview. I would recommend Washington DC field office. We stayed for three days. Arrived the day before, one day for interview and oath, and travelled the next day. Applied for the passport overseas even though it is frowned upon. It is much quicker.

If they are too young, they will obviously come back with you. A return ticket is probably enough if they ask.

Confirmed.

Who is requesting a visa? I would recommend that only the child and American parent travel for this purpose.

My children were young so I have no information on the biometrics.

Apologies for the late response. Reply to the original email where they denied your biometrics from the UAE. Let them know that you want to schedule your appointment. They should reply to your email. Just bother them a bit.

First: It would be advisable to take his passport. You are supposed to bring the original. As another poster suggested, you can get it sent in the mail. Second: You can go home and apply passport from there so you don't need to wait.

Please take a look at this as it might help you: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/us-citizenship/child-citizenship-act-of-2000.html#:~:text=The Child Citizenship Act of,acquire U.S. citizenship at birth.

We could not get fingerprinted in Qatar so they told us to get fingerprinted in the US shortly before our interview.

The end result of the N-600K process is a "Certificate of Citizenship". How else would they get a passport?

As technically your kids do not have any immigration intent, I do not think there is a concern for the N-600K. It is their father that is immigrating. Your kids intend to go to the interview and come back to their residence in the UK. If you want to go through the quicker route of the N-600K, go ahead and apply for ESTA for your kids now. This would be much quicker than the visit visa process. @SirenDoll had an issue with approval of ESTA after applying for the N-600K. You can leave on your UK passport, apply for US passport and come back on the US passport although it is frowned upon. I did this.

The concern though is unlike you and myself is that she clearly wants to immigrate. Although it would be quicker and cheaper to do the N-600K, I would not make things more problematic by doing two processes (I-130 and N-600K) at the same time. @Stephie C I believe the N-600K is cheaper, quicker, and applicable in your case but I personally would prefer to go through the I-130 process as you clearly intend to immigrate. In addition, you would not want to complicate the processes and get too many questions at the interview. If you are willing to add more stress to save the 5000 USD that is mentioned by SirenDoll, I think that would be your risk to take. Even if your kids do get the US citizenship through N-600K, you are still waiting for your husband to get his papers. You are still waiting anyways. Let us know what you decide and if you go through the N-600K, please add to my posting so that we can benefit from your experience.

Why would you say that the N-600K is not the correct route? There is nothing in her post that says that this is still not possible.

As per the N-600K instructions: Requests for Interview. We will request that child and the applicant (parent, grandparent, or legal guardian) appear at a USCIS office for an interview based on your application. At the time of any interview or other appearance at a USCIS office, we may require that you provide your biometrics to verify your identity and/or update background and security checks. Your understanding was incorrect. Only the child and the applicant need to attend. We did not have any issues with my father not being present.

No, they do not need to attend. I flew back to our country of residence and applied for passports there although that is frowned upon.

We had the same issue. We did our fingerprints at the police station here and sent them anyways. We got an email response asking where we got our fingerprints done and they said they will not be accepted as it was not at an embassy. If you have any communication with them, send them an email and tell them that you are not able to do a biometrics in your country. We did not have any emails with them until we sent the fingerprints so I do not know if you have any communication with them. Once they got in touch with us, we arranged for an interview date and a biometrics date in the US. We did biometrics a few weeks before the interview.

This is for the N-600K not N-600. One to two weeks.

Hi Siren, Thanks for the additional information regarding not getting the ESTA approved. I will include this in the main post to plan for a B1/B2 visa just in case and to plan ahead of time. When is your N-600K interview?

I did bring those along as that is what the instructions said. If you have any special circumstances, it would be best to let them know ahead of time before the interview.