Acquisition of U.S. Citizenship by a Child Born Abroad

[Garko 0]

We have been approved and are waiting for NVC process. My wife is pregnant and will deliver our baby any day now. I planned on going to nigeria for the birth but from what I read on http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_5199.html it says --> A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States

Does that mean if I am in Nigeria during the birth of our child I will not be allow or denied (CRBA) Consular Report of Birth Abroad certificate? Please help with any insight into this.

[The Mean Lady 604]

you haven't finished reading

It clearly states you have to have been physically present in the US for the required amount of time meaning PRIOR to the birth.

Birth Abroad to One Citizen and One Alien Parent in Wedlock

A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child's birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.) The U.S. citizen parent must be genetically related to the child to transmit U.S. citizenship.

[Garko 0]

THANK YOU....