Child's first passport application

[nelly123 0]

Hi guys,

I recently took the steps for my child's first American passport. She was born here in canada 4 months ago and since her dad is American, she has now dual citizenship. We went to the consular, paid the passport fee etc There was a paper missing(act of birth) which I sent to them 2 days after that. It has been 3 weeks and i'm kind of worried because I can't track her passport application anywhere because they ask for her social security number which she doesn't have yet! We called the passport office, they cant find anything, even with her name. I don't get it. The consulate lady told us she has been aproved citizenship and we paid what we had to pay. NOW.. I have my us visa (valid until august) and we are planning on moving back to the US in July. Our daughter only has her canadian passport right now and i'm scared that we will be denied entry if we don't get her US passport..

[ch3john 308]

Is the "Act of Birth" the CRBA? If not, you will need to apply for CRBA

[nelly123 0]

The act of birth is like a birt certificate with more info about the birth of the kid and parents. When I applied for my daughter's us passport, we also applied for her report of birth of abroad. The lady told us everything was fine but that we needed to send then the act of birth which we did.I have no way to track my daughters us passport application because her social security number is needed to track it. She is supposed to get her social security number with her report of birth of abroad and passport...

[ch3john 308]

Sounds like they need the act of birth before the CRBA will be approved. The CRBA will need to be approved before a passport is issued.

I'm not sure what the timing is in Canada for CRBA approval, but my son's CRBA took about 3 weeks to be approved in Jakarta once they had every thing they needed. We were able to pick up his passport exactly one week later.

Can you check the status of the CRBA?

[nelly123 0]

Thank you for your answer! I am trying to see if there's away to find out about the status of her CRBA.

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

**** Moving from DCF to CRBA for more answers *****

It took about 5-6 weeks for my twins passports to arrive if I remember right, SSN was much faster.

[Marrienne 113]

The act of birth is like a birt certificate with more info about the birth of the kid and parents. When I applied for my daughter's us passport, we also applied for her report of birth of abroad. The lady told us everything was fine but that we needed to send then the act of birth which we did.I have no way to track my daughters us passport application because her social security number is needed to track it. She is supposed to get her social security number with her report of birth of abroad and passport...

Our daughter was born in Greece and we filed for her CRBA and her passport and SSN and we got the CRBA and the passport but it has been 7 months now and no SSN.

**** Moving from DCF to CRBA for more answers *****

It took about 5-6 weeks for my twins passports to arrive if I remember right, SSN was much faster.

7 months, no SSN, passport was 2 weeks. Embassy in Athens, Greece.

[zkt101 38]

Our daughter was born in Greece and we filed for her CRBA and her passport and SSN and we got the CRBA and the passport but it has been 7 months now and no SSN.

7 months, no SSN, passport was 2 weeks. Embassy in Athens, Greece.

You should contact SSA to inquire about the SSN