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*** Moved from US Citizenship Progress Reports to General Discussion, and removed duplicate thread *** Since your GC already lists your married name, you should not have to do name change as part of your naturalization. GC name = your legal name in the eyes of USCIS. Maybe you got a newbie IO?

*** Moved from AOS Progress Reports to AOS from K1 Visas forum *** It should be listed in your I-129F receipt and/or approval notice. If not, just put your I-129F filing date.

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*** Moved from IR1/CR1 Progress Reports to the Philippine regional forum, for country-specific input *** The $220 fee is for the plastic green card production, not the visas. Only option is to pay online through the USCIS site.

Check the suggestions in the thread below --

Keep trying for a new CFO appointment. You must attend a GCP session or you won't be able to get a CFO certificate and board the plane. Even if CFO stickers were still given out at the airport (they're not), you won't be given one if you don't have a CFO certificate.

Then you have NOT filed a petition for your wife before.

It's 6 months by default, but I've seen reports here on VJ of some being given much less than 6 months, like 1 month or 2 weeks, regardless of the date on the return ticket. In my case, I was always given 6 months, even if all my return trips were scheduled for 3 months or sooner. Same for my mom.

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Yes, it means uploading additional bona fide relationship evidence to CEAC prior to the visa interview. You may upload them under the additional documents section of the Civil Documents tab.

This could not have been a case of acquiring citizenship AFTER birth via INA 320. This could only be a case of transmitting US citizenship AT birth, otherwise the N-600 would have been denied for someone who has never lived in the US. For transmitting citizenship AT birth, parental custody is not directly relevant. The relevant point is whether the child was born in or out of wedlock. That point would determine how much US physical presence is required for the USC parent to qualify.

I'm fairly certain that was an exaggeration. Maybe the mother gave birth while on a visit abroad? I doubt the mother could have given birth while being in a different country from the baby? Unless this is another case of birth through surrogacy, like in that other thread 😆 As for passing citizenship to a child, only the parent's whereabouts prior to the birth matters. Even if the parent leaves the child right after the birth, it doesn't affect their ability to transmit citizenship to the child at birth.

By getting a US passport, as has been repeatedly suggested already. If she had enough supporting evidence to be approved for N-600, then she definitely has enough to get a passport.

Where the daughter or her parent currently reside is irrelevant for N-600. What matters is the documentation that the parent qualified to transmit citizenship at the time of the daughter's birth. USCIS already determined that the documentation they submitted is enough to prove that the parent was indeed qualified, hence the daughter is a US citizen from birth.

I requested an interview appointment as soon as I got my medical clearance after the sputum testing period. 3 weeks after my request, I got a new interview schedule. But note that I went through visa processing in Manila. The procedures and timeframe for your dad's process in Mumbai may be different.

Have you attended CFO seminar or tele-counseling? If you did recently, you should have received a temporary CFO certificate via email.

*** Moved from Bringing Family of USC forum to Passports, etc sub-forum, where topics about N-600 are discussed *** For N-600 applicants who acquired citizenship after birth (via INA 320), USCIS may require oath-taking for those who are over 14 years old. Not sure if there is an oath-taking requirement for those who applied based on acquiring US citizenship at birth. It's likely that the certificate of citizenship will just be mailed to your cousin's daughter. In any case, I agree with the suggestions above for her to immediately apply for a US passport.

That is not accurate. N-600K is for those under 18 years old, but N-600 is available to adult US citizens born outside the US, as long as they acquired US citizenship at birth from their biological parent. From the N-600 instructions -- https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/n-600instr.pdf "You may file this application if: 1. You claim to have acquired U.S. citizenship through a U.S. citizen parent and are now over 18 years of age; or 2. You are the U.S. citizen parent or legal guardian who has legal and physical custody of an adopted or biological child (under 18 years of age)." @Imani, ignore the posts claiming your cousin's daughter's process was wrong. USCIS already definitively declared her a USC entitled to a certificate of citizenship. N-600 is exactly the process for those no longer eligible for CRBA due to being over 18 years old. BUT, if your cousin's daughter had asked here before going through the process, I would have recommended applying for US passport first BEFORE applying for N-600. N-600 before passport was a risky approach. Glad she was approved. Unlike passport application, N-600 is a one-time deal. If she had failed her N-600 attempt due to some missing document or some trivial reason, N-600 would never be available to her again.

My B1/B2 visa was also revoked after I was tagged for sputum testing at my visa medical in Manila. Having active TB disease renders a visa holder inadmissible to the US, so I suspect they preemptively revoke the visas of those who are suspected of having the disease, even if still undergoing testing. My sputum test results came out negative for TB, so I was medically cleared and soon granted an immigrant visa. But the B1/B2 revocation stayed on my immigration record 😠

She couldn't have been approved for an immigrant visa if her case was DQ-ed only last week and she hasn't even attended visa interview. DQ is not visa approval. If you are having seconds thoughts about moving to the US, your wife can just postpone her CR1 visa interview. There is no such thing as converting CR1 to B2 visa. She'll have to apply for a B2 visa through the normal process.

What is the case status displayed at -- https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx?App=IV

Not an issue, unless the country visited is on this list -- https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/ Or if the applicant commits a crime and gets arrested while visiting another country.