N-600/N-600K Fees drastically going up Dec 23, 2016, file ASAP if you can

[ptm897 41]

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that if you need to file the N-600 for your child that has derived citizenship from your naturalization or you are an adult that knows for a fact you derived U.S. citizenship through your parents, and you are just procrastinating filing for the N-600 to get your Certificate of Citizenship I am urging you all to please get that application filed NOW before the new fees take affect on December 23, 2016. The fees are going up and the increase for the N-600 Certificates of citizenship is one of the largest increases I have ever seen. It is going up from $600 to over $1,000. That is an insane amount of money and I feel bad for all those that will need to file this.

Just remember if you are now pending naturalization you CANNOT file this until after you naturalize because your minor children do not derive until the day you are sworn in so you can't jump the gun and file it early while you are waiting, otherwise it will be denied.

[Hypnos 6,576]

Best to avoid a CoC if at all possible and just jump directly to a US passport.

CoC are certainly overpriced.

[ptm897 41]

Best to avoid a CoC if at all possible and just jump directly to a US passport.

CoC are certainly overpriced.

They are overpriced for sure!! I agree, and I have never seen such a huge increase before either. :-(

I work on those applications now and have been doing them since 2003, I can tell you though, just having the U.S. passport is not always the best idea, because I have several former co-workers that have gone over to work for the Passport office and I have seen this myself in working newly filed N-600's, that as some point down the road when that child grows up and if at anytime they let that U.S. Passport expire, they have to prove their citizenship all over again, everyone does with an expired passport, even those of us born here, we have to give them our birth cert again, so say for instance a derivative citizen got their first U.S. passport as a child when they were say 12 years old, and at the time their parents filed for it the parent had a copy of their naturalization certificate and gave that to the passport office with the child's application, now fast foward 10 or 15 years later and that child is now an adult, they let their U.S. passport expire and say that their parents are no longer around for whatever reason or their parents have lost their naturalization certificates, when they apply to get a new passport they will be asked to show the proof how they derived, and if they no longer have access to their parents naturalization certificates they will be in trouble at that point if they never obtained their own COC.. believe me I have seen it happen more times than not.. and I have had that info confirmed by friends of mine that work for the passport office now. They have done funny things over the years, issued the child's first U.S. passport when the parents naturalized and then for the next passport they ask them for the COC. So I have been telling people to go ahead and apply for their children's U.S. passport immediately when they apply for theirs and then start saving the money they need and eventually get the N-600 filed, because at some point down the road they may need it, then if they don't have it, they end up filing the N-600 some 10-15 years later and are kinda screwed when they have to wait for our processing times and they need their passport to take a trip outside the U.S.

The Passport office can be really funny about this at times so it's always better to eventually get it because I have seen them ask for it years later.

[Hypnos 6,576]

Unfortunately I can absolutely believe that.