scar

Hello,

I am looking for some advice please on the process to apply for a US passport for my daughter.

• She was born in the UK in 2018 and we moved to the USA in 2019.
• She has a UK passport
• Father in British in the USA on a perm resident card
• Mother is a US citizen
• She entered the USA on a permanent resident card and I believe she is a US citizen.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to get her a USA passport. some details online are confusing, does she need a certificate of citizenship or not?

The reason I ask is the certificate costs $1000 but there also looks to be another route of just supplying evidence of her citizenship. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Many thanks for the time in advance

BritInParis

A Consular Report of Birth Abroad followed by a US passport application would’ve been the correct procedure. You can apply directly for a passport now from within the US but there would be no permanent record of your daughter’s US citizenship.

scrubbedexpat099

How did she become a US Citizen?

S Folinsky

I used to teach the subject for attorney training courses and my base point would be refer to the charts as a starting point. Often, that would be the end of the inquiry. BritInParis seems to have facts beyond what you have posted in THIS thread, otherwise, there is insufficient information to determine if the girl is a citizen at birth.

As discussed in Matter of Villanueva, a valid US passport is conclusive evidence of US citizenship. That said, I have seen some individual state agencies insist on a certificate of citizenship and refuse to accept a US passport as evidence of citizenship.

tht

Are you referring to the child or mother?

BritInParis

As the mother was not born in the US nor has completed the required residence period prior to the birth of the child then please ignore this post.

BritInParis

Your daughter would’ve become a US citizen upon arrival in the US. You can apply now directly for a US passport. A Certificate of Citizenship application is not required but would provide standalone documentary evidence of your daughter’s citizenship.

excpomea

Would she not have become a US citizen upon birth in the UK?
I know my son did. We applied for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad in London. Followed up with an application for a US passport.

S Folinsky

I previously referred to the charts which summarize the prerequisites for acquiring US citizenship at birth. In the case of foreign born children who were not US citizens at birth, there can be automatic acquisition upon immigrating to the US. I have been long amused that such an immigrant visa contains the seeds for its own self destruction where the new green card goes “poof” upon admission to the US. It the arena of “if I was King” I would create a procedure at the ports of entry for immediate issue of a certificate of citizenship instead of a green card.

BritInParis

The US citizen parent in this case was herself a citizen by descent and hadn’t met the residence requirements for the child to be a US citizen at birth.

tht

If you were “King” you would not be in charge in the US… but if you were Secretary of Homeland Security and appointed by a President who had the house and 60+ senators why not issue a document that would allow said USC to travel… sure it would be nice for a USC to have proof of citizenship… but if you are giving up a document that allows you to travel for one that does not it would only be half the solution…. May the most practical would be a stamp in the foreign passport allowing travel for 6 months to give the USC time to get a US passport. Would solve a lot of issues if they did the same at the Oath ceremony…

scrubbedexpat099

As the Op has not filled in the gaps this seems pointless

Rete

Curious how you found this out? Was it posted in a different thread or communicated to you via messenger?

tht

I thought “by descent” was the UK term. While the US rules are similar in some ways (and the intent) it is not the same.

BritInParis

I read the poster’s previous threads.