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Acquiring US Citizenship Through Your Parents

us citizenshipHow a woman born abroad who had never even been to the United States discovered that she had acquired US citizenship through her father.

Mrs. S was born in India and spent her entire life there. She consulted with our immigration law firm and told us that she and her two children wanted to immigrate to the United States. What was the quickest and most efficient way to do so? The backlogs for the family-based and employment-based categories (professionals and skilled workers) took many years.

Was there a faster way to immigrate?

Upon further investigation, it turned out that Mrs. S’s father had become a naturalized U.S. citizen before returning to India in the 1960’s. He passed away in 1985. This probably ended the possibility that this could help her immigrate to the U.S. she told us.

Not true, we replied.

 

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Under a complex set of laws pertaining to acquiring US citizenship to children born abroad to US citizen parents, Mrs. S could claim US citizenship at birth even though her father passed away over 20 years ago.

In order to claim US citizenship, we prepared an application for a U.S. passport which she submitted to a U.S. Consulate in India.

To prove her eligibility to the Consulate, Mrs. S provided the following documents: