Citizenship Series Part 6: Deriving Citizenship When the Child Was Born Out of Wedlock
Naturalization of Mother When Child Was Born Out of Wedlock and Paternity Not Established by Legitimation: While the concept of legitimate or illegitimate children seems very old fashioned, but even in this modern era, legitimation is important in many cases where a child’s parents were not married at the time of their birth. While this…
Citizenship Series Part 5: Deriving Citizenship when Your Parents were Legally Separated
Naturalization of Parent Having Legal Custody Where There Has Been a Legal Separation of the Parents: The USCIS phrase may sound complex, but this path to Derived Citizenship applies to children whose parents were divorced or legally separated. The key factor is “Legal Custody.” In this post, we’ll break down what counts as Legal Custody…
Citizenship Series Part 4: Deriving Citizenship with One Naturalized Parent
Derivative Citizenship is possible for those who only have one Naturalized Parent, but this is reserved for those in special circumstances. There are only three (3) situations in which having one Naturalized Parent may qualify you for Derivative Citizenship: In this Part of the series we will be discussing situation 1. Naturalization of a Surviving…
Citizenship Series Part 3: Derived Citizenship
In the two previous parts of this series, we discussed Acquired Citizenship under the Child Citizen Act of 2000 (CCA). It is understandable that you might feel it is unfair or arbitrary that the CCA applies only to children born on or after February 27, 2001, or those who were under 18 years of age…
Citizenship Series Part 2: Automatic Acquisition of Citizenship after Birth
As discussed by Part 1, there are 4 specific conditions that must be met on or after February 27, 2001: In this part of the Citizenship Series, we will discuss the specifics of these requirements and whether they may be applicable to you. In the event all these conditions were met before your 18th birthday,…
