child over 18

[tweety&irv 5]

I am asking these questions for a family member.......My aunt is about to file to become a citizen thru naturalization and she would like to know if she can file 2 -3 months before the full three years.

Another thing she has a 20 year old daughter and wants to find out if her daughter would automatically get her citizenship when she file and if the age would be a problem. Please for your respond

Edited October 24, 2012 by tweety&irv

[anknown 2]

for one to be citizen after parent they have to be not over 18. So she will not gain citizenship. If she is not on a permanent resident she will be able to be an immediate family without visa waiting if her mother become a citizen b4 she is 21. Yes she can file 90 days( 3 months) b4 her 3 yrs.

[tweety&irv 5]

thanks for the response she is a permanent resident so she will have to file for citizen when she is 21 or she can do it now

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

The aunt can file for naturalisation 90 days before her 5 years.

The child (over 18) the same.

[NickD 203]

Wife could apply 90 days before her third green card anniversary under the marriage privilege. But due to long delays in our AOS processing, her daughter barely turned 18, talking less than two weeks. So she did not automatically become a US citizen when her mom was naturalized.

But it was becoming an automatic citizen without any proof, if she was a couple of weeks younger, we would have had to pay $600.00 by filing the N-600 and wait another at least six months. As it was, she had to wait until 90 days before her fifth green card anniversary. Submit the N-400 like everyone else and pay the 680 bucks plus take the English and Civics test.

Unlike her mom where we had to provide tons of proof we were married and living together, stepdaughter didn't have to provide any proof at all, not even tax returns. But that extra 18 months went by pretty quick.

I could not petition for my barely over 21 stepson, because it was over 21, his mom had to do that after she became a LPR. It took the USCIS over three years to process her I-130, then was turned over to the NVC. My senator could not help us with this, and the folks at the NVC are very rude. Does a lot more damage to contact them, so we stopped that, after eight long years, we are still waiting. If he gets married, he is out of it.

Really no interest in keeping a family together.