I-130 ?????

[trj383 0]

Hi everyone i will be starting my journey this week!!!!

DCF for mexico city and i am the USC my wife is mexican.

I am in the process of filling out the infamous I-130 and even after reading for hours on this forum i STILL have questions. First the instructions for the i-130 says,(well at least how i understand it anyway),that i do not have to file a 130 for my daughter?

I am listed on her Acta ( birth certificate)as her father and she is ten y/o.

thanks in advance

T

[Grant PDX 183]

Your daughter should have US Citizenship through you, her father. If she already has that citizenship confirmed she won't need any kind of a visa and you could just apply for her passport as a US citizen. Check the guides, hopefully they cover your questions: http://www.visajourney.com/content/child

[trj383 0]

Yes that is true, but i haven't. I'm not sure how to do this for her I 130 or the other form n 400 or something like that i think, but if memory serves me correctly i think to file for citizenship through me costs like 7 or 8 hundred bucks?!?!?

Terry

[Grant PDX 183]

Just reading through the petitioning procedures http://www.visajourney.com/content/childpet it looks like you will need to file the I-130. I'll leave that to those more experienced than I.

My son became a US Citizen through adoption by me. I never filed the N-400. After his adoption I just applied for a US Passport with his birth certificate, my birth certificate, and got it with no problems. BUT he had a US birth certificate (showing birth abroad, but listing me as his father). It doesn't sound like your daughter has the US certificate, so likely the I-130 process?

Good luck.

[trj383 0]

nope no us certificate so i'm thinking along the same lines as you as to filing the I 130 for her as well. Man this process is crazy.

T

[trj383 0]

Hi all Now i am very confused again. I was reasearching about my step daughter and i ran across a thread where it seems to say i only file 1 i 130 and list my daughter on the mother's 130 is this correct?

Terry

[yachachiq12 43]

Hi everyone i will be starting my journey this week!!!!

DCF for mexico city and i am the USC my wife is mexican.

I am in the process of filling out the infamous I-130 and even after reading for hours on this forum i STILL have questions. First the instructions for the i-130 says,(well at least how i understand it anyway),that i do not have to file a 130 for my daughter?

I am listed on her Acta ( birth certificate)as her father and she is ten y/o.

thanks in advance

T

Can't you just fill out a CRBA for the child? http://travel.state.gov/law/family_issues/birth/birth_593.html

[trj383 0]

i have thought about that, but in truth she isn't my biological child. I recognized her { as it's called here in Mexico) because she had no father listed because he abandoned them before she was born! So in this process called reconocemento, i am listed as her father on her birth cert. I have no desire to lie even little white ones in this process because the ramifications are too severe.

It's just that when i think i know how to fill these @#$% forms out i read something on the forum that makes me doubt what i thought i knew!

For example i thought for sure that i had to have an i 130 for my wife and one for my child but i just read on another thread that i only file one and list the my little girl on the i 130 for my wife. I am so confused i'm not sure what to do now and i plan on going to the embassy Monday to file the paper work.

If anyone can clarify this point for me please do so.

T