Really appreciate the guidance. I'll wait for 1 more week to follow up w/ the consulate and we'll see.
An immigration lawyer already engaged, and suggested waiting for a response from the consulate first. The challenge is, what if USCIS also rejects the N600K purely based on the fact that she's already a US citizen as she was issued a passport (this is a q asked as part of the N600K application). Then she's in "limbo". Hence we thought maybe at least the consulate says "they're not able to renew the passport", then we could use that to go the USCIS route.
In terms of engaging the congressman route. how would you recommend that we go about it, given that we're living outside of the US?
Hello everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster here.
Facing a really unique situation and any guidance will be deeply appreciated. Will post as concisely as possible, and happy to give any details
* son born august 2018 outside of the US. Got I-551 stamped onto passport on first visit back in October 2018. Green card arrived later on
* wife and I got naturalized a few months later in April 2019
* we got our passports from passport office the same day we got naturalized
* same day, we asked for a passport for our son, given his qualification for automatic citizenship (LPR, living with us in the US)
* we had to leave the country a few days after getting the passports, as we had to attend to a family emergency. In fact, prior to naturalization we’ve been traveling back and forth to take care of a parent (who then passed away 1.5 year later). In the meanwhile (i.e., until the parent passed away) we had to take care of him full time, so were not able to go back to the US for quite some time.
* when we wanted to renew our son’s daughter a few weeks ago, we were challenged by our intent and whether we were actually living in the us, because we travelled a few days after getting the passports.
now we’re having to go through submitting evidence again that we were living in the US at the time etc. I’m quite surprised as 1) the passport office officer who issued the passport to my son many years ago were all aware of this situation and were convinced AND 2) I thought once my son’s citizenship was established, that wouldn’t be up for discussion again?
my questions:
- can they actually go back and look at the circumstances again, particularly given the establishment of citizenship
- what sort of evidence would help make the case again (if I have to)? Last few months in the US, we were staying at a friend’s place, as flying back and forth to take care of the parent was super costly and we didn’t have a separate lease. We have a written statement from the owners of the place that we were residing there. Our kid’s green card was also sent to our friends’ address.
- in the case that her passport renewal application is denied, what options would we have to get her citizenship back? Is N600K an option, as he was born after we were naturalized?
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