Comments on: Citizenship of a baby born in a foreign country http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/ Learning, languages, EU, citizenship Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:11:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Biernat http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64617 Mark Biernat Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:11:05 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64617 I am sorry you are having such a hard time and I commend your efforts to bring life in the world, really. I think every problem has a solution, you just need to find it and do not give up and you are right NY is expensive I imagine. I think your situation is so different you need to go to the US embassy or if in the USA the department of immigration which is a subsection of homeland security and set up an info appointment. You can find the department of immigration/homeland security on the web and the city near you will have a center where you can set up via the web an info pass appointment, usually the next day. After a security check you wait for a few minutes and there is someone there that is better equip to answer your complex situation. I personally think green card holders who have a baby in a foreign country will have to go through a visa and eventually green card process for their new-born, but it should not be complex as the US government is not out to separate families, but you need to apply and you have to ask someone in the department as I am not sure. An immigration lawyer might be needed but I would start with the department of immigration. I am sorry you are having such a hard time and I commend your efforts to bring life in the world, really. I think every problem has a solution, you just need to find it and do not give up and you are right NY is expensive I imagine. I think your situation is so different you need to go to the US embassy or if in the USA the department of immigration which is a subsection of homeland security and set up an info appointment. You can find the department of immigration/homeland security on the web and the city near you will have a center where you can set up via the web an info pass appointment, usually the next day. After a security check you wait for a few minutes and there is someone there that is better equip to answer your complex situation. I personally think green card holders who have a baby in a foreign country will have to go through a visa and eventually green card process for their new-born, but it should not be complex as the US government is not out to separate families, but you need to apply and you have to ask someone in the department as I am not sure. An immigration lawyer might be needed but I would start with the department of immigration.

]]> By: Ana http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64616 Ana Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:42:40 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64616 Me and my husband is a greencard holder. We tried advance infertility treatment here in NY and still no positive result. We cannot afford to pay the surrogate here in US. We found out that its more affordable in India, we will be using my husband's seed and the surrogate's egg since I cannot produced healthy egg. based on Indian law, they could put the parents name on the baby's birth certificate. Can we bring back the baby to US even if we are not an US citizen yet? we just got our greencard last year but we don't want to wait that long. How can we register a baby born out the country with parents holding a greencard status? Thank you. Me and my husband is a greencard holder. We tried advance infertility treatment here in NY and still no positive result. We cannot afford to pay the surrogate here in US. We found out that its more affordable in India, we will be using my husband’s seed and the surrogate’s egg since I cannot produced healthy egg. based on Indian law, they could put the parents name on the baby’s birth certificate. Can we bring back the baby to US even if we are not an US citizen yet? we just got our greencard last year but we don’t want to wait that long. How can we register a baby born out the country with parents holding a greencard status?

Thank you.

]]> By: Mark Biernat http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64614 Mark Biernat Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:19:38 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64614 Just because she is a surrogate she can not come to the USA without a visa status. You can have the child in the Phillipine and apply for US citizen for your baby based on the Father, but check with a immigration lawyer in the USA who specialized in surrogate born children. But my understanding of the law is every person needs a visa status in the USA and being a surroae alone does not change this in any way. Let me know if you find information to the contrary. Just because she is a surrogate she can not come to the USA without a visa status. You can have the child in the Phillipine and apply for US citizen for your baby based on the Father, but check with a immigration lawyer in the USA who specialized in surrogate born children. But my understanding of the law is every person needs a visa status in the USA and being a surroae alone does not change this in any way. Let me know if you find information to the contrary.

]]> By: Mark Biernat http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64613 Mark Biernat Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:16:09 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64613 You are already a US citizen, just go to odh.ohio.gov/vitalstatistics/vitalstats.aspx and they can send a birth certificate to you in Eygpt. Then go to the Embassy with it and apply for a passport, but it will cost money. But you are a US citizen if you were born there. You are already a US citizen, just go to odh.ohio.gov/vitalstatistics/vitalstats.aspx and they can send a birth certificate to you in Eygpt. Then go to the Embassy with it and apply for a passport, but it will cost money. But you are a US citizen if you were born there.

]]> By: Mark Biernat http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64612 Mark Biernat Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:05:46 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64612 It would be no problem. However, what passport do they hold now? There still might be an application process but with a Canadian father not an issue. It would be no problem. However, what passport do they hold now? There still might be an application process but with a Canadian father not an issue.

]]> By: Mark Biernat http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64611 Mark Biernat Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:03:25 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64611 I do not think so, you could apply in a more round about way, but confirmation is based on a test of how long you lived there after a certain age. I do not think so, you could apply in a more round about way, but confirmation is based on a test of how long you lived there after a certain age.

]]> By: Monica http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64608 Monica Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:18:51 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64608 I am an american Citizen but I lived in USA utill my 12 years , now I live in Colombia, I am having a baby can my baby be an american Citizen. I am an american Citizen but I lived in USA utill my 12 years , now I live in Colombia, I am having a baby can my baby be an american Citizen.

]]> By: kelly http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64605 kelly Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:06:25 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64605 I wonder what the status re citizenship etc. is for my daughters? Their father has dual nationality, Canadian and British and I am British. I understand that you have to be a permanent resident in Canada to gain citizenship but could the children just go to Canada one day and decide to live with their father without all the immigration process? I wonder what the status re citizenship etc. is for my daughters? Their father has dual nationality, Canadian and British and I am British.

I understand that you have to be a permanent resident in Canada to gain citizenship but could the children just go to Canada one day and decide to live with their father without all the immigration process?

]]> By: Ana http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64604 Ana Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:19:55 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64604 We are planning to get a surrogate mother from Philippines.. My husband's sister in law is willing to be a surrogate mom to us. We have tried several ivs and egg donor cycles here in ny but it did not work for us. We are running out of fund to pay for surrogate mom local, so we wanted to bring my sister in-law to us tobe my surrogate. Since we have no law for surrogate in the Philippines. We are planning to get a surrogate mother from Philippines.. My husband’s sister in law is willing to be a surrogate mom to us. We have tried several ivs and egg donor cycles here in ny but it did not work for us. We are running out of fund to pay for surrogate mom local, so we wanted to bring my sister in-law to us tobe my surrogate. Since we have no law for surrogate in the Philippines.

]]> By: Maya http://claritaslux.com/blog/citizenship-baby-born-foreign-country/comment-page-4/#comment-64603 Maya Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:30:18 +0000 http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/?p=360#comment-64603 I was born in America in the state of Ohio in the year 1982. I want to get a U.S. Birth certificate and the American passport. I did not try before to get U.S. citizenship. I came back to Egypt since I was 1 year.I am now 30 years old.So What are the steps that must be followed and the papers to be submitted to obtain an American citizenship? I'm living in Egypt now. I was born in America in the state of Ohio in the year 1982.
I want to get a U.S. Birth certificate and the American passport.
I did not try before to get U.S. citizenship.
I came back to Egypt since I was 1 year.I am now 30 years old.So What are the steps that must be followed and the papers to be submitted to obtain an American citizenship? I’m living in Egypt now.

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