My friends 6 month old baby was born in Mexico?

[Amber824 4]

My friend went to mexico with her boyfriend while she was pregnant, and then after the baby was about 2 months old, she came back into the US with her baby. It makes no sense to me why she had the baby in Mexico but she did and now shes wanting her baby to have citizenship here in the U.S.

I am helping her with getting her boyfriend back to the US legally through the K1 process cause thats what I have recently just done with my husband (fiance at that time). But I have no idea on what to do about her baby getting citizenship. Someone told her she has up to a year to get her baby citizenship.

Please let me know what to tell her and what she needs to do to get her baby citizenship.

Thanks!! =)

[payxibka 10,047]

typically a Report of Birth abroad needs to be filed with a foreign consulate... IDK if the process will be different now that the child is already here

Edited December 10, 2008 by payxibka

[Rob & Chris 0]

My friend went to mexico with her boyfriend while she was pregnant, and then after the baby was about 2 months old, she came back into the US with her baby. It makes no sense to me why she had the baby in Mexico but she did and now shes wanting her baby to have citizenship here in the U.S.

I am helping her with getting her boyfriend back to the US legally through the K1 process cause thats what I have recently just done with my husband (fiance at that time). But I have no idea on what to do about her baby getting citizenship. Someone told her she has up to a year to get her baby citizenship.

Please let me know what to tell her and what she needs to do to get her baby citizenship.

Thanks!! =)

I would also say, just get a Consular's Report of Birth from Abroad.. that is, if one of the parent is a USC. I don't think there would be any necessity for any kind of petition at all. I had my son abroad and that was just what we did - got a Consular's report of birth abroad from the US Embassy and also applied for his US passport so we're good to go to US after I got my visa.

IDK though how it would work.. but they might need to go back to Mexico to obtain the CRBA, or they can try calling or send an e-mail if there is a need for physical presence. Here's a link for the US Embassy in Mexico. I hope it helps: http://mexico.usembassy.gov/eng/eacs_birth_abroad.html

Goodluck.

[lucyrich 20]

My friend went to mexico with her boyfriend while she was pregnant, and then after the baby was about 2 months old, she came back into the US with her baby.

Please let me know what to tell her and what she needs to do to get her baby citizenship.

Assuming your friend wasn't married when the baby was born, and assuming the mother was a US citizen who at some time in her life before the birth of the child spent at least one year in the US, the baby is a US Citizen and has always been a US Citizen since the day the baby was born.

See the last paragraph in this link.

http://www.travel.state.gov/law/info/info_609.html

So the question isn't how to get citizenship for the baby, because the baby has had citizenship since birth. The question is just how to get a paper proving the baby's citizenship. That makes things easier -- they can't turn the baby down for any reason, as long as your friend can prove that the circumstances of the birth meet the requirements listed above. There's no time limit, though it's probably easier to do it sooner rather than later, while documents are still easily available.

Your friend has at least three choices. A consular report of birth abroad would work, but you file for that at the consulate abroad serving the area where the baby was born. If the mother and baby are both in the US now, and if they want to file while remaining inside the US, the choices are to file an N-600 request for certificate of citizenship (filed with the USCIS), or to apply for a US passport for the baby (requested from the State Department). Since a passport also allows the baby to travel, there may be some requirements to get the father's permission, though since the baby was born out of wedlock, they may be waived -- I don't know much about this area. An N-600 certificate of citizenship does not allow travel, and is considerably more expensive than a passport.