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my son enters the USA on thursday with immigration visa apprentaly coz he is 14 yo and im a US citizen HE becomes a citizen my question is can we go to can we go to mexico while we are in California before he gets his US passport??? will thee be a problem ????

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my son enters the USA on thursday with immigration visa apprentaly coz he is 14 yo and im a US citizen HE becomes a citizen my question is can we go to can we go to mexico while we are in California before he gets his US passport??? will thee be a problem ????

He can go to Mexico. You'll have plenty of problems getting him back into the US. At the border, he must identify himself as a US citizen. US citizens are required to have a U.S. passport, a passport card, a trusted traveler card such as NEXUS, SENTRI or FAST, or an enhanced driver's license.

http://www.dhs.gov/files/crossingborders/travelers.shtm#0

U.S. Citizens

Air Travel

All U.S. citizens including children must present a passport or other approved travel document when entering the United States by air. U.S. citizens can present a passport, NEXUS card at airports with NEXUS kiosks, U.S. military ID with travel orders, or a U.S. Merchant Mariner Document when on official business.

Land/Sea Travel

Beginning June 1, 2009

U.S. citizens entering the United States at sea or land ports of entry are required to have documents that comply with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), most commonly a U.S. passport, a passport card, a trusted traveler card such as NEXUS, SENTRI or FAST, or an enhanced driver's license.

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my son enters the USA on thursday with immigration visa apprentaly coz he is 14 yo and im a US citizen HE becomes a citizen my question is can we go to can we go to mexico while we are in California before he gets his US passport??? will thee be a problem ????

You are correct, if your son enters the U.S. as a Green Card holder, he is instantly upgraded to U.S. citizen based on the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. Now he will have to prove this to people who did not take immigration law, such as border patrol agents. The document needed for this is a U.S. passport. Without it, your vacation will be an adventure that you won't forget for the rest of your lives, even if they don't gun you down or mug you there.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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