The US immigration law permits citizenship through parentage under certain requirements and conditions. This means children of a US citizen parent are able to acquire citizenship provided both parents or at least one parent is a US citizen. This is derived by citizenship of children born in US (biological – legitimate or illegitimate- or adopted children) or citizenship of children born overseas (biological – legitimate or illegitimate – or adopted children).
An important factor a parent should be aware of is that his citizenship, whether obtained by birth or naturalization, is already a way to have a child automatically acquire US citizenship. In both options mentioned above, parent and child must meet conditions before citizenship is granted to the child. Citizenship of children born in US who are under 18 years or age and unmarried is qualified under this provision. Even if a child is only legitimated, which means his parents were not married, he is still eligible for the citizenship. This also goes to legally adopted children of a US citizen parent or parents.
The case of citizenship of children born overseas to US citizen parent living outside the United States is quite similar in the conditions that must be followed with the first circumstance. The child has to be unmarried, under the age of 18 and with at least one US citizen parent. In the event that the US citizen parent is already deceased, the child still qualifies for citizenship if the parent was a US citizen at the time of death. This also goes to legally adopted children of a US citizen parent or parents living outside the US.
The parent must file up an Application for Citizenship and Issuance of Certificate or Form N-600K on behalf of a child residing outside the US. Form N-600 or Application for Citizenship must be filled up on behalf of a child residing in the US.
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I need some information on this topic, my parents having green card of USA and living there from one year, and they submitted my file on the basis of their green card.
So now in which category I came? Is it F3 or F4?
Please reply…Thanks in Advance.
Mayur Patel