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I assisted my client, a naturalized US citizen, in obtaining US citizenship for his children who were born and live abroad in the UK through a N-600K Application for Citizenship and Issuance of Certificate.
For children with one US citizen parent who reside outside of the US., citizenship can be obtained through the N-600K form, not to be confused with the N-600 form. In order to be eligible for this type of naturalization, children of the USC parent must:
- 1. Be under the age of 18
- 2. Be temporarily present in the U.S. after a lawful admission while maintaining lawful status
- 3. Reside outside of the U.S. in the legal and physical custody of their USC parent
- 4. USC custodial parent has been physically present in the U.S. for at least 5 years, two of which were after his/her 14th birthday
My client came to me because:
- He wanted his children to gain U.S. citizenship by virtue of his status as a naturalized US citizen.
- One of his children was approaching her 18th birthday, after which she would no longer be eligible for citizenship through him (her father).
Some aspects of the application process were more complex than anticipated. After submitting the initial application, the client received a Notice of Intent to Deny. This is because there were two opposite sets of proof the client needed for his children to be eligible which were not accepted in the initial application. In order to combat the Notice of Intent to Deny, the client had to submit more evidence to prove both:
- That he lived in the US for at least 5 years
- That he resided in the U.K with his children as their legal and physical custodial parent
To prove the first point:
- We created a timeline to track all of the places he had lived in the United States and for how long to verify that he had resided here for at least 5 years
- We subtracted travel time outside of the US from his total duration of US residence to make sure our timeline was accurate down to number of days
- We supported this US residence timeline with documentation from different apartments he rented out, as well as with gym membership records and other paperwork which verified his presence in the US.
To prove the second point:
- We gathered a broad collection of different documents which verified the client’s address in the UK. (The same address his children reside at.) These included car documents, house documents, bills, and letters from organizations and individuals which attested to the presence of the client in his children’s lives.
The submission of additional documents into evidence resulted in the applications being accepted, and the client and were given a date to be interviewed. I helped them prepare for the interview, and it went very smoothly. The same day as the interview, all four of his children were granted citizenship.
Timeline of the case:
April 2023 → The client reached out to me after seeing one of the videos on my YouTube channel.
August 2023 → We submitted the N-600K applications for his children to USCIS.
January 8, 2024 → USCIS sent us a Notice of Intent to Deny in response to the initial application.
February 12, 2024 → We sent in a legal memorandum and additional evidence to combat the Notice of Intent to Deny. This additional evidence was enough to prove the two initially denied eligibility requirements, and the applications were accepted!
March 8, 2024 → The client and his children were interviewed by USCIS and it was a success. All four of the client’s children were granted US citizenship!