Child's biometric for N-400?

[bwaaderant 0]

We are putting together my wife's N-400 application and we were wondering if her child, my step-daughter, will need her biometrics done. Will she need the two passport style photos also? We've looked pretty much everywhere and can't find an answer. Thanks for any replies!

[OKflyboy 35]

No, you do not need to mail any of the minor child's papers with the parent's application, just list her on the form. No biometrics for the child. This is not her application, but the mother's.

[bwaaderant 0]

No, you do not need to mail any of the minor child's papers with the parent's application, just list her on the form. No biometrics for the child. This is not her application, but the mother's.

Okay, thanks! That's kind of what we were thinking, but just wanted to make sure.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

If the child has a Green Card, he or she will automatically become a US citizen when her mom naturalizes as a US citizen.

Once mom has received her Certificate of Naturalization, she and her daughter will together go to the passport office and apply for a passport book and a passport card, each.

Aside from the applications, photo, and funds, the mom needs her original Certificate of Naturalization, a state or government issued photo ID (such as a driver's license), and the daughter will need her Green Card and her birth certificate, the latter one to proof that she is indeed her mother's daughter.

That's all it takes.

[NickD 203]

If the child has a Green Card, he or she will automatically become a US citizen when her mom naturalizes as a US citizen.

Once mom has received her Certificate of Naturalization, she and her daughter will together go to the passport office and apply for a passport book and a passport card, each.

Aside from the applications, photo, and funds, the mom needs her original Certificate of Naturalization, a state or government issued photo ID (such as a driver's license), and the daughter will need her Green Card and her birth certificate, the latter one to proof that she is indeed her mother's daughter.

That's all it takes.

It's not like the I-751 where the child also receives a green card for only an extra 80 bucks, just told the child automatically becomes a US citizen without any proof of that.

If you looked over the N-400 form for you, the required evidence is no different than what you had to send in for your AOS and ROC. In our case, the ROC took the USCIS with excessive delays, they wanted us to submit our most current evidence that we were still married, like our latest bank and income tax records. What we supplied for the N-400, was exactly the same as what they already had received.

Well you can expect the same thing with your child going back to when your child first came here, proof that you have sole custody of that child, and proof that the biological father gave his permission to come here. And complete traceability that, that child is yours. Like her birth certificate, your previous marriage certificate, assuming you were married, permission from the biological parent, etc. All in the instructions for the DS-11 or N-600 applications. Point is, you already done this, but have to do it again.

Too bad you just cannot pay the extra 85 bucks for biometric fees for your kid, but they don't do it that way.