Alura

@Kate987, do you mind sharing which field office your application is at? I am about to start the process and would prefer if we didn't have to fly the qualifying grandparent out with us!

Thank you SirenDoll!

Hello, My husband (US Citizen) and I (non-US Citizen) live outside the US and are expecting our first child. Strictly speaking we believe we meet the requirements for our baby to acquire US citizenship at birth. However, we are concerned about the quality of the evidence we can gather to demonstrate my husband's physical presence in the US, as we would need to rely on counting c. 2 years worth of extended holidays / trips to visit family when he was younger. We are struggling to find good evidence for these trips: he travelled on his US passport but it doesn't seem to have US entry/exit stamps, and since it was just holiday there are no other official records. The only evidence we can so far think of to present for these older trips are written affidavits from his family confirming he made the visits. We're not sure that would be sufficient(?). So instead we are considering the N-600k using since my husbands mother is also a US Citizen and she has spent significant time residing in the US (including studying) that should be relatively easy to evidence. Does anyone know if we are allowed to do a N-600k given technically speaking we think the baby is automatically a US citizen, just we can't easily prove it? And does anyone have any thoughts on whether there are any downsides of applying for our child to naturalise as a US citizen as opposed to asserting that the US citizenship has been automatically acquired at birth? Thanks so much for any insights!