Sponsoring questions… please help

[JayT80 0]

Your daughter and her mom will be green card holders when they enter US on immigrant visa. Based on marriage, her mom will have to wait for 3 years to apply for citizenship.

About your daughter.. there are two options:

First option: If your daughter is less than 18 years old after her mom becomes a US citizen via naturalization oath ceremony, your daughter is automatically a citizen, then apply for N-600 (Certificate of Citizenship) or just apply for a passport for her. There is no point to waiting for a Certificate of Citizenship before applying for a passport. A passport is faster and cheaper to get. You can get a Certificate of Citizenship (N-600) later to be safe for the long term if you want. Certificate of Citizenship is a proof if her passport is lost or she hasn't applied for a passport.

Second option: Is she your biological daughter? If so, there is Child Citizenship Act of 2000 Sections 320 and 322 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to see if your daughter met all conditions under that act. I think she should be automatically US citizen if she resides in US and LPR and has one parent who is a US citizen thru naturalization. See links below.

http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/legal-considerations/us-citizenship-laws-policies/child-citizenship-act.html

http://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartH-Chapter4.html

If she is not your biological daughter, you can forget about second option. Use first option..

I am the biological father and i have birth certificate of her with my name. I will take a note on that.

Thanks

[aaron2020 11,651]

Your daughter and her mom will be green card holders when they enter US on immigrant visa. Based on marriage, her mom will have to wait for 3 years to apply for citizenship.

About your daughter.. there are two options:

First option: If your daughter is less than 18 years old after her mom becomes a US citizen via naturalization oath ceremony, your daughter is automatically a citizen, then apply for N-600 (Certificate of Citizenship) or just apply for a passport for her. There is no point to waiting for a Certificate of Citizenship before applying for a passport. A passport is faster and cheaper to get. You can get a Certificate of Citizenship (N-600) later to be safe for the long term if you want. Certificate of Citizenship is a proof if her passport is lost or she hasn't applied for a passport.

Second option: Is she your biological daughter? If so, there is Child Citizenship Act of 2000 Sections 320 and 322 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to see if your daughter met all conditions under that act. I think she should be automatically US citizen if she resides in US and LPR and has one parent who is a US citizen thru naturalization. See links below.

http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/legal-considerations/us-citizenship-laws-policies/child-citizenship-act.html

http://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartH-Chapter4.html

If she is not your biological daughter, you can forget about second option. Use first option..

Option 1 is irrelevant. It will take mom at least 3 years to qualify for naturalization at which time the children will definitely not be under 18 months.

Option 2 is correct. The CCA is relevant.

Edited February 25, 2015 by aaron2020

[spousewaitingvisa 39]

Option 1 is irrelevant. It will take mom at least 3 years to qualify for naturalization at which time the children will definitely not be under 18 months.

Option 2 is correct. The CCA is relevant.

You are correct!

[spousewaitingvisa 39]

I am the biological father and i have birth certificate of her with my name. I will take a note on that.

Thanks

then Use CCA (child citizenship act -- your 1 year old daughter can apply for US passport and/or N-600) after she enters US with her mom on immigrant visas as LPRs to live with you (since you are a US citizen).

[JayT80 0]

Thanks guys!