N-400 for a minor child???

[NickD 203]

4 hours ago, defeedme said:

is this still accurate today, 2019 ? thanks

Back then the N-400 form was 10 pages long, today it 20 pages, would have to read through all the instructions.

 

From the time I petitioned for my wife and stepdaughter with acknowledgement from the USCIS it took 13 months and some days to our very first appointment.  We applied for the N-400 at the earliest time, because of huge delays in the I-751 process.

 

At that time, my stepdaughter was 18 years and 10 days old,  she could not receive her citizenship with her mom, if they only received their two year green cards about two weeks earlier. But we had to wait another two years, another 3,500 miles of driving, and I think the fee back then was another $600.00.

 

All this deals with is fraud, this was around 17 years ago, we are still very happily married, the best part of getting US citizenship is getting free of the USCIS, was like a chain around our necks.

 

My wife and daughter actually received their 10 year green cards three months after my wife received her citizenship.  While the state of Wisconsin was placing fines of $16,800.00 dollars for hiring undocumented immigrants.

 

Another hardship, wife's and daughters two year green cards were expired, had to carry a sheet of paper extending their cards that also expired.  We had to make more trips to get their foreign passports stamped by the USCIS, but later learned about bringing a passport photo for an I-94.  Daughter was applying for college at that time with an expired green card, and nobody had no idea of what a stamp in their foreign passports were as with my wife.

 

Two years on a green card, two years on your first driver's license, another problem with the DVM, what in the "hell" is a stamp in their foreign passports?  That's the word they used.

 

For us all history.

[NickD 203]

Bit more negative memories, wife hasn't seen her mother in over three years and just received a brand US Passport.  I had no problem entering Colombia, but would not let my wife in, he place of birth was listed in Colombia. 

 

After an hours worth of discussion they finally let her in, we were not aware of the agreement our state department made with Colombia, and the state department does not like to call this dual citizenship, but dual nationality, the only way my wife could get a Colombian passport was to be in Colombia.

 

Unlike the US where we could fill out the forms our self, Colombia made us hire an attorney, wife had to renew her Colombian citizenship, form was simple enough and fortunately her mom had a copy of her birth certificate.  The attorney charged us $1,000.00 for this, they love US dollars.  Than another couple of hundred dollars for the passport.

 

Now she can enter Colombia with her Colombian passport, but she can't leave Colombia because she doesn't have a US tourist visa.  But she has to show her US Passport as well so she can leave.

 

I questioned our state department about this, at all oath ceremony had to cut her ties with her former country.

 

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;"

 

What the State Department states completely contradicts what the USCIS states.