Question on US citizen child and DS-230

[Moofie37 1]

Hello,

My wife, who is applying for her CR-1, is 9 months pregnant. I believe because I am a US citizen who has been in the US for over five years that my future child will be to apply for US citizenship and a US passport. My wife's interview is a two months away. Does my wife have to submit a new DS-230 when my child is born listing his name, date and place of birth? Does my wife have to state that our child will be accompanying her in line 31a of the DS-230, even though he will be a US citizen? I assume that I do not need all the documentation for my child that I do for my wife, since the child is not applying to immigrate. Is that the case?

My wife accidentally put me, the US citizen petitioner, as accompanying her to the US in line 31.a on her DS-230? It seems from the forums I have looked at that that was incorrect. Will this hurt our application?

Thanks,

Stewart

[Swingman_Tomoyo 2]

I'm wondering about that too. Hope you get the correct answers you're looking for. :-)

[Swingman_Tomoyo 2]

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/241669-ds-230-part-1-question/

[JoannaV 174]

As swingman's link explains, question 31 isn't asking about those who are accompanying the immigrant but those who are "accompanying" the immigrant, aka immigrating with the immigrant. Helpful terminology, huh.

However, don't worry about if you sent it off with you listed. I've known people do this before, and as far as I can tell they just ignore anything in this section if it is wrong. It would be important to fill in this section correctly if there really were other immigrating, but when that's not the case it's normally fine to have filled it in wrong :-)

Remember by the time of the interview you will need to prove income for a larger household than you have right now. Other than that, this shouldn't affect anything. You'll just have to get the child's passport etc sorted out before you can move. I'd take the child's birth certificate to the interview.

[Moofie37 1]

Thanks for all the postings. Just to follow up. My child is not born and so when we sent off the DS-230, I did not list him on question 29. My child will be born by the time of the interview (I hope.). Do we need to bring another DS-230 filled out with my child's details listed to the interview, or send it to the embassy? Or can we just tell the consular officer when we get there and show him or her the birth certificate.

Thanks,

Moofie37

[JoannaV 174]

No need to do anything right now. Would see no harm in printing out a new DS-230 with the additional information in part 29 to take to the interview just in case.

[himher 634]

Our daughter was born overseas. The consulate issued her consular report of birth abroad and US passport from there.

You will be needing to apply for the consular report of birth abroad and the US passport right after your child is born and receives his/her birth certificate and NOT include your child on the immigration documents as this is a separate issue.

The process: Bring the birth certificate / proof of your US presence to the embassy and put in the application for consular report of birth abroad and US passport (you/your wife/baby have to go together and dont forget to bring a couple of passport photos of the baby) and you should receive the US passport and consular report of birth in about 2 weeks. After that, your son/daughter are counted for household size but DOS/USCIS takes no other interest in the USC child who can travel at will in and out of the US on his/her own passport.

It is better to wait until your baby is in the US to apply for the social security card as they go through Athens and it takes forever to get one. Our daughter was born in May and we did not apply for SS card until December of the same year when we re-entered the US for holiday.

Your wife has (6) months to activate her IR1 visa after it is issued. There is plenty of time to do both while you are there and based on our experience it took exactly the same time to get passport/consular birth cert as it did to get the visa after the interview (2 weeks for each).

If you include your USC child as an "immigrant" your paperwork will be all snarled up as your son/daughter is legally a USC "from birth".

Good luck!

Hello,

My wife, who is applying for her CR-1, is 9 months pregnant. I believe because I am a US citizen who has been in the US for over five years that my future child will be to apply for US citizenship and a US passport. My wife's interview is a two months away. Does my wife have to submit a new DS-230 when my child is born listing his name, date and place of birth? Does my wife have to state that our child will be accompanying her in line 31a of the DS-230, even though he will be a US citizen? I assume that I do not need all the documentation for my child that I do for my wife, since the child is not applying to immigrate. Is that the case?

My wife accidentally put me, the US citizen petitioner, as accompanying her to the US in line 31.a on her DS-230? It seems from the forums I have looked at that that was incorrect. Will this hurt our application?

Thanks,

Stewart

[ndu26 114]

even though responders have stated you do not need to include your child in the Ds 230 which sounds correct...i think you should just fill out a new DS 230 and correct the mistake your wife made about you accompanying( immigrating with) her..just in case. Some consular having a bad day may just want to stress her up a bit on that day with that. so fill out and signs a new one and have her sign (part 1 for now only) and take it with her to the interview in case they request a correction

[Mojave 0]

To answer your question about child born abroad if you haven´t already done all the paperwork...They will also want proof that you the US citizen have lived in the states before the age of 16 I think it was 5 years they wanted,Also for me a drivers License and w-2s weren´t enough for proof of living in the states..as you can work overseas and have a w-2 and a drivers license only shows one day, same thing with tax returns and shot records...You will want a letter from your place of work stating how long you have worked there....Old report cards or school transcripts and fotos of you in yearbooks....Also for your wife prenatal dr.records..fotos of you both with the baby and fotos before the baby was born as proof she was pregnant...

Hope this helps if not late,

Andy

[Jerick 0]

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/241669-ds-230-part-1-question/

Hello,

My husband who is a USC filed a I-130 for my 15 yrs old daughter who is currently living in the Philippines on February 9, 2012. We received the NOA1 on February 22, 2012. How long it will take for us to receive the NOA2? And what is the next step? I was reading an article that we have to file a DS3032 and pay for AOS? Do we need to pay it now eventhough we did not receive the NOA2 yet? Or should we wait for the USCIS to send us the NOA2 then pay the AOS? Also, can my husband or I (mother) can complete and sign the part I of DS230 since my child is a minor. Can the DS230 be send to our address in the US or in the Philippines?

Please help!!!

Thank you.

Jocelyn