Child Citizenship Act of 2000

[dythan2005 12]

Hello everyone. I' need your expertise to see if my kids are under the child citizenship act.

I'm a us citizen but when we had our kids, I'm only a us legal permanent resident . My kids are 8 and 5 now and they live all their life in the philippines with my wife. The reason I'm asking is because We are at the visa stage now and they are coming relatively soon and I want to know if this act applied to them. Hopefully somebody can enlighten me. Thank you

[Hypnos 6,578]

If you are now a US citizen, the children will be in your physical and legal custody, and they will be coming as LPRs, then they will automagically becomes US citizens under the CCA as soon as they enter the US on their immigrant visas. They will enter as LPRs one second, and be US citizens the next.

[Mark88 184]

Hypnos pointed it out. And it will only count if they come as LPR's. If they are coming on a tourist visa, CCA won't apply to them.

[Hypnos 6,578]

Unless they successfully adjust status.

[dythan2005 12]

Thanks so much everyone! Its so much easier to understand these terms if explained by real people than going to website where the explanations usually leaves you scratching your head in confusion.

[dythan2005 12]

Hypnos pointed it out. And it will only count if they come as LPR's. If they are coming on a tourist visa, CCA won't apply to them.

I filed i130 for my wife and kids so they're coming as an LPR

[Ian H. 207]

The Child Citizenship Act was established so that children under 18 could become citizens if one parent naturalized and otherwise met the conditions. A child doesn't have to meet the same criteria as an adult who naturalizes, like the residence requirement, the good moral character, or take the oath of allegiance. They simply have to been an LPR before they turn 18, and you have to become a citizen before they turn 18. The legal and physical custody is assumed automatically by you being his or her parent, unless there is a court order where you don't have custody. As soon as your children enter with their immigrant visas and apply for LPR at the port of entry, they are USC's in an instant. Literally in the blink of an eye. They won't be given anything that proves their citizenship at the POE or anything like that. You have to either apply for their US passport or certs of citizenship. It's better to apply for the passport because the cert of citizenship isn't required and is expensive. That will be what proves their citizenship from then on.

I filed i130 for my wife and kids so they're coming as an LPR

Also if you file an I-130 make sure that you submit an I 864W for each of your children and the regular I 864 for your wife.

[sara..... 371]

The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 covered children like I was that were adopted over seas and brought to the USA....it required that the child was adopted again in the USA after the childs arrival to be eligible for the law that was past......

sara

[aaron2020 11,651]

The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 covered children like I was that were adopted over seas and brought to the USA....it required that the child was adopted again in the USA after the childs arrival to be eligible for the law that was past......

sara

Absolutely wrong.

Neither the CCA or any other US law requires that the child be adopted again after the child arrives in the US.

If the foreign adoption is good enough for the US government to issue an immigration visa to an adopted child, why would the US require a new adoption afterwards??????