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That's great! I think at this point it might be best to have a consult with a US immigration lawyer. The N-600K may not work for you anymore, but there may be some other less well known law that would apply to your situation and help you claim citizenship by birth. I think would definitely be worth the consult to see what they say. Sometimes even law schools offer consultation like services for immigration that may be helpful. Best of luck to you!

Are you still in touch with you mother's father? The one that lives in the US? If he is willing to help you out, or even if you can get a copy of his records to prove his citizenship, his residency in the USA and prove that he is your mother's father(such as with his birth certificate and your mother's birth certificate) then I'm pretty sure you can claim the citizenship. That second link that I included originally says in Part C, Item 3 that if a parent doesn't fill the physical residence requirement, the grandparent can. I don't think that it would matter that you are already an adult, but you would have inherited the citizenship upon birth and the USCIS application would just be getting that already inherited citizenship registered and recognized. But the only way to do it is with your grandpa's info and documents, so I hope that you are able to get them. If you have no way of getting ahold of your grandpa, it would be a lot more difficult getting everything you need to claim your US citizenship.

Initially I thought yes, you would be a citizen by birth, but after looking at the details closer, I don't think you are able to claim the citizenship unless you have contact with your grandfather. The parent has to have lived in the USA for a certain period of time as described below. So unless your mom lived in the US for at least 5 years, including a few years as a teenager, she is not able to pass on her citizenship to you. The USCIS page also talks about grandparent physical presence being sufficient. So if you can prove your grandfather's residence and citizenship in the US, and his connection to your mother and her citizenship, you may be able to claim the US citizenship. The law in effect at the time of birth determines whether someone born outside the United States to a U.S. citizen parent (or parents) is a U.S. citizen at birth. In general, these laws require that at least one parent was a U.S. citizen, and the U.S. citizen parent had lived in the United States for a period of time. A child’s U.S. citizen parent must meet the following physical presence requirements: The parent has been physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for at least 5 years; and The parent met such physical presence for at least 2 years after he or she reached 14 years of age. https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/i-am-the-child-of-a-us-citizen https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-h-chapter-5#:~:text=A child's U.S. citizen parent must meet the following physical,reached 14 years of age.

I believe this poster is correct, you will need to include your husbands info by default since you are married, live together, and file taxes jointly. Legally your finances are merged. I will include a screenshot of the document requirements by NVC for the police certificate from Uzbekistan, which can be found at nvc.state.gov/find Make sure that the police certificate you submitted is the correct one, as described below.

Your immigrant visa will only be good for 6 months from the date it's issued, so you will need to use it or lose it and then start the whole process over again with USCIS with another I-130 for you. One option, and what I recommend, is you can try to delay your visa interview until your kid's cases are at the same stage. Call the US consulate/embassy where your interview is scheduled, explain the situation and ask them if you can postpone scheduling your interview indefinitely, at least until your kid's cases pass the NVC, then schedule a joint interview for all of you. Another option is that once you have your visa, have your spouse or some other family members stay with your kids while you come to the US, once you get your green card in the mail(can take up to two months) then you can return to your home country and finish out your children's immigration process with them. I'm sorry that you're going through this experience, I can only imagine the stress it must be giving you. There just isn't really a good quick way to solve this dilemma

Hello, my wife and I married in November 2022 and we just started the NVC portion of our immigration process. My understanding is that because we have been married less than 2 years she and my two step-children will be issued CR1/CR2 visas instead of the IR visas. We’re waiting for our fee payments to be processed so that I can fill out the needed documentation but while browsing on their CEAC portals I noticed the visa classes, wife’s is CR1, daughter’s is CR2, but my son’s is listed as IR2. I don’t want an error like that to mess up our processing time. What is the best way to get in touch with the NVC to correct that?

Ah, bummer, not what I was hoping for, but thank you for your help.

Her parent's and her brother are currently living and have residency in Portugal, they are Brazilians by nationality. I am aware that they will need to be in the US and enter legally before we could apply for adjustment of status.

I'm not sure how best to approach my little 10 year old brother-in-law's immigration in the coming years. I am a US citizen. My wife and I are in the process of getting her a green card via consular processing, we anticipate that she will have her green card in the next 6 months. We're going to apply for her citizenship pretty much right at her 3 year mark, so after processing we're optimistic that she will her her citizenship within 5 years from now. That will then open the door for my in-laws that have already expressed interest in immigrating to the US. My wife's parents would quality as immediate relatives and would be able to gain LPR status via adjustment of status, allowing them to stay here in the US during their immigration process. My question that my parent in-laws have a son that is currently 10 and their dependent. So once we apply for adjustment of status for my wife's parents how do we apply for my brother in-law? Normally siblings are a family preference category and they take like 15 years to get a visa available and are not able to use adjustment of status. Is there a way to include my brother-in-law on his parent's applications since he is a dependent child?