130 through Mother (American citizen)

Lamposts

I'm 28 and just wondering if anyone has gone through this before with a family member as a citizen over there. If so, how long did you have to wait for it to be processed from the time of applying?

p.s. Is it true that if you file after the 90 days that they have no other choice but to process you? I was told that's the fastest way to get a visa but from my research it seems like being under 21 is the only way to be guaranteed that.

circular flexing

Are you married or single?

Unmarried falls under F1 category, based on latest visa bulletin, they are assigning file numbers to petitions filed in October 2009. Married falls under F3, date is currently January 2005. These are current dates and waiting time is likely to increase (unless the number of Green Cards issued is increased) as all these categories are oversubscribed.

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bulletin/2017/visa-bulletin-for-november-2016.html

Lamposts

circular flexing wrote: »

Are you married or single?

Unmarried falls under F1 category, based on latest visa bulletin, they are assigning file numbers to petitions filed in October 2009. Married falls under F3, date is currently January 2005. These are current dates and waiting time is likely to increase (unless the number of Green Cards issued is increased) as all these categories are oversubscribed.

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bulletin/2017/visa-bulletin-for-november-2016.html

Single... OCT 2009. THAT IS DEPRESSING

circular flexing

Lamposts wrote: »

Single... OCT 2009. THAT IS DEPRESSING

There's no harm (and no cost I believe) in filing the petition now anyway. I'm aware of people who waited that long for a file number and are now GC holders.

Just be aware that if you do get married while waiting for a file number, then you will drop to the F3 category.

holly8

Lamposts wrote: »

I'm 28 and just wondering if anyone has gone through this before with a family member as a citizen over there. If so, how long did you have to wait for it to be processed from the time of applying?

p.s. Is it true that if you file after the 90 days that they have no other choice but to process you? I was told that's the fastest way to get a visa but from my research it seems like being under 21 is the only way to be guaranteed that.

can you not just apply for citizenship if your mother is US citizen?

él statutorio

holly8 wrote: »

can you not just apply for citizenship if your mother is US citizen?

I thought that you'd be a citizen automatically.

circular flexing

él statutorio wrote: »

I thought that you'd be a citizen automatically.

Not necessarily, it depends on the circumstances and location of the birth

If born in US, then you are automatically citizen, born outside US, it's a bit more complicated.

https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship

https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents

lonestargirl

él statutorio wrote: »

I thought that you'd be a citizen automatically.

The mother might was not necessarily a citizen a the time of the OP's birth.

él statutorio

circular flexing wrote: »

Not necessarily, it depends on the circumstances and location of the birth

If born in US, then you are automatically citizen, born outside US, it's a bit more complicated.

https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship

https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents

So, as long as the person has a US citizen parent (the mother) and was born after Nov 14th 86 (presumably OP is ok here) then they're a citizen....

My daughter was born in Dublin a few years ago, her mother (American) just got the forms from the embassy and filled them out, job done.

lonestargirl

to transmit citizenship the parent needs 5 years of residence in the US (two after the age of fourteen). Your daughter's children will not be citizens if she stays in Ireland and has children here (neither will my son's even though he is US born).

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal-considerations/us-citizenship-laws-policies/citizenship-child-born-abroad.html

circular flexing

él statutorio wrote: »

So, as long as the person has a US citizen parent (the mother) and was born after Nov 14th 86 (presumably OP is ok here) then they're a citizen....

My daughter was born in Dublin a few years ago, her mother (American) just got the forms from the embassy and filled them out, job done.

Again, it's not that straightforward as the US citizen has to satisfy the following residency requirements

The U.S. citizen parent had been physically present in the U.S. or its territories for a period of at least five years at some time in his or her life prior to the birth, of which at least two years were after his or her 14th birthday.

él statutorio

circular flexing wrote: »

Again, it's not that straightforward as the US citizen has to satisfy the following residency requirements

Ahh, I missed that bit. So essentially the citizen parent has to have spent some reasonable amount of time living in the US.

holly8

My kids were born in Ireland a few years after I became a naturalised citizen and a few years after I moved back to Ireland...we went to us embassy in dublin last year, registered their births abroad (I.e. here), got usa passports for them..relatively straightforward