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Mother is US citizen. Father unknown on her child's birth certificate. Sounds like we're good to go then, just have her on the form as sole parent but bring enough documentation just in case. Thanks all! If I have this wrong please let me know.

My spouse immigrated from the Philippines legally, and a few years later so did her child who is a minor. No green card for the child, and we haven't applied for certificate yet. We thought passport would be best for now. The father is not listed on the child's foreign (Philippines) birth certificate and has never had any contact. I am the step parent but not legal since I haven't adopted. Can we still apply for US passport now? We can provide marriage certificate and my US passport, but we're only listing 1 parent on parental information since it says at parents birth. Is my information necessary or will just confuse everything? Anyone ever heard of a similar situation?

What was your experience, did they allow any family members as guests?

As excited as we are to have a naturalization appointment scheduled in April, we are leaving on a trip to the Philippines very shortly after. We weren't expecting the turnaround to be so quick so we thought it would be after. Now it puts us in a dilemma. From what it looks like, as a US citizen they will not accept a foreign passport when entering and leaving the US, correct? Turnaround time for a US passport in that short of a timeframe seems impossible. Can we ask for a delay of the naturalization appointment due to this? Otherwise it's going to cost thousands of dollars to reschedule this trip. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!