Citizenship claim question

[janurabi 0]

You asked this already. http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=240603

oops yes I did I'll repost under that thread. Sorry about that.

[janurabi 0]

Here's a recent update with what's been happening. My mom just obtained her passport and now I'm waiting for a response from the Calgary Consulate as to what I can do in terms of my own situation.

I've been trying to consult with the Department of State and USCIS but either doesn't seem to know anything about anything. My mother encountered this same frustration when she first began looking into her situation. USCIS even went so far as to tell my mom that there's no way she's a citizen. And yet, the Calgary consulate total contradicted that and treated her like one even before approving her passport application.

My parents are telling me it's probably best to deal with the Consulate directly since USCIS initially had misinformed my mother and the State Department is telling me that since my mother wasn't herself naturalized that there's no way I could claim it through her and there's no way of verifying that she was a citizen at the time of my birth. But there IS verification, my grandparent's naturalization papers and my mother's alien #, such and such. Otherwise the Consulate would never have approved my mother for a passport. The State Department also commented that if I was going through my Grandparents that I would have to contact immigration. When I contacted USCIS about this they didn't seem to understand why the State Department would even suggest that. I believe the retention law was abolished in 1978 by Congress. My mom resided in the States for 10 years until her 19 birthday. It is a bit of a complex case which is not cut and dry.

Anybody hear about a similar situation this?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Duplicate threads merged