question on N400 about my now permanent resident wifes children

[DAAG 1]

I am a US citizen who petitioned my Filipina fiancé to come to USA, after my ex-wife had left, we'd been divorced for 30 years, and I'd raised all 6 of my children on my own. My filipina wife and I have now been married for over 4 years and she's a permanent resident, with ten year green card. My question concerns the N400 question asking her to list her children.

Now I have 6 adult children from a previous marriage, who were adults and on their own, most with their own kids, before I even met my current wife.

when asked about her children on all previous applications, we said none, because they were clearly asking only about her actual children, and she has none.

I know its always a good idea to make everything match, but on the new N400 form when they ask about her children, they say include past and present step children, from her past marriages, current marriage, and so on. She knows my adult children, but in reality, they are older than she is. My question is should she list my 6 adult children as her children on the N400, since they technically qualify as her step children, when applying for citizenship? or would that complicate things, and not be what they're looking for with that question?

thanks for any information anyone can offer.

-Daag

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

List her stepchildren, like it says. Just answer the question.

[Michael and Milahjean 0]

Just finished the naturalization process, and similarly I have two adult children, older than my wife, that we did list on the N400 form. Technically they are her step-children. They were not listed anywhere else in the CR-1 process, since she had no children of her own. We went so far as to have my adult kid's certified birth certificates on hand for the interview, just to be sure, but no original docs were requested and there was no mention of the older kids, approval received, no problem.

[DAAG 1]

Thank you so much Michael and Milahjean, and Harpa. I felt fairly certain USCIS wanted my wife to list My children as if they we actually hers, but My wife felt I was over complicating things, and I have to agree, sometimes perhaps I do. Its just that after working for our government in the US Navy for over 20 years, I felt they want answers that are technically correct, as opposed to normally accepted as correct, even though listing my children as hers seemed to serve no purpose, as listing children actually hers who'd also immigrated, or would, may serve some purpose, as my wife pointed out. So its especially good to see people in very similar situations, who have already had their N400 approved, with the children of the U.S. citizen spouse, listed as if they were actually offspring of the foreign, permanent resident spouse, where they appear nowhere else in her previous paperwork, even though in our case it will make it look like two of them live with us, due to the addition of a new street near our home, causing our home to have a new address that has very unreliable mail delivery, so we use the address of one of my sons, and another disabled son also uses it. But alas such are the complications of our, at this point, seemingly never ending paperwork. the upside is this should be the last one we need to do, and my new wife will finally be a citizen, making our lives together much less complicated for travel and such. Thanks again.