US Citizenship thru adoption

[DaveE 178]

I didn't adopt her unitil she was in the states. I believe if I had adopted her in the Philippines in may have been different. We submitted her paperwork for passport as soon as the adoption was complete and she had her conditional green card. The issue arose was when her mom was trying to remove conditions and get her permanent green card and they wouldn't let her let her do it without the daughter.

Edited August 2, 2018 by DaveE
Correctio.

[ekim 10]

23 hours ago, Akphils said:

@Hank_  I adopted my 2 stepsons and planning to get them a US Passport as per advice of DaveE, question, because they’d came here on cr2 visa and now automatic us citizen through adoption, how does their status gonna be change to USCIS? Do we need to report it after getting the US Passport.? Thank you so much. 

 

You will submit the greencard (physical card) together with other requirements (your proof of citizenship/naturalization certificate, adoption decree, etc) when you apply for your children's passports. I believe they will update USCIS since they got the greencard.

[Akphils 19]

@DaveE so basically, when my wife file for her removal of condition next yr. she needs to include my two son’s. And then the USCIS going to change the status of the kids to US Citizen once they’d got the 10yr. green card. I thought the kids  wouldn’t apply for the removal once all the adoption done.😒 

 

 

[DaveE 178]

Remember my experience was five years ago. I hope they have fixed this by now.  I should not have had to remove conditions from my daughter since she was a US citizen. There would be no conditions to remove.

 

The problem arose when I was removing condition for her mother (my wife).  Vermont kept returning the paperwork saying the my wife's K1, and my daughter K2 were linked and had to be done together.

 

I made an infopass appointment in Atlanta and explained to them the situation.  They verified that my daughter was a citizen and did not have to remove conditions. However they said fighting with Vermont was basically useless and would take up to one year. Representatives told me the same thing.

 

In my case, Atlanta told me to go ahead and act as if my daughter had to remove conditions and just submit the package like that.  They also told me that when the permanent green card arrived for my daughter, to destroy it since she already had a US passport.

 

Kind of pissed me off and the couldn't answer the question I asked, "what if my daughter didn't like the states and had decided to go home?" How would my wife remove conditions in that case. All I got was blank stares.

 

Since the time, my daughter had been in and out of the states with her passport with no issues at tall.

[Hank_ 9,174]

28 minutes ago, DaveE said:

Remember my experience was five years ago. I hope they have fixed this by now.  I should not have had to remove conditions from my daughter since she was a US citizen. There would be no conditions to remove.

 

The problem arose when I was removing condition for her mother (my wife).  Vermont kept returning the paperwork saying the my wife's K1, and my daughter K2 were linked and had to be done together.

 

I made an infopass appointment in Atlanta and explained to them the situation.  They verified that my daughter was a citizen and did not have to remove conditions. However they said fighting with Vermont was basically useless and would take up to one year. Representatives told me the same thing.

 

In my case, Atlanta told me to go ahead and act as if my daughter had to remove conditions and just submit the package like that.  They also told me that when the permanent green card arrived for my daughter, to destroy it since she already had a US passport.

 

Kind of pissed me off and the couldn't answer the question I asked, "what if my daughter didn't like the states and had decided to go home?" How would my wife remove conditions in that case. All I got was blank stares.

 

Since the time, my daughter had been in and out of the states with her passport with no issues at tall.

 

Sounds like one more case of a idiot behind the wheel... seems the government is full of them