Citizenship By Blood

Of all of the opportunities that an outsider has of gaining residency in the United States, the easiest by far is to simply prove that your parents or grandparents were U.S. citizens. Interestingly, there are still a few people each year who are surprised to learn that because their parents or grandparents were either born in the U.S. or became U.S. citizens later, they are already U.S. citizens themselves—in which case they can toss out all of their forms that they had been preparing and simply go get a U.S. passport. It’s not unlikely that officials might ask you to show some means of identification that could include a Certified and Notarized Birth Certificate Translation, immunization card translation and perhaps some additional forms of documents that prove your true identity.

What some people do not know though is that U.S. citizenship can be obtained in two additional and less known ways. This article attempts to explain those methods and services as another part of our ongoing series on U.S. immigration and documentation. Believe it or not, there are some people born and living outisde of the U.S. who want U.S. residency and don’t even know that they are already residents. A ticket to U.S. citizenship can be as simple as a direct line relationship to another citizen of the United States. As an example, suppose you were born in Paris and your U.S. parents have not even visited the United States of decades if not longer. Regardless, citizenship may have been passed on to you. So basically to claim U.S. citizenship, all that is required is to might be a simple trip to a French Translation company to get your identification translated and then presented to INS.

Another common occurrence results from the number of people who were born in the U.S. but have lived most of their lives in other countries. Lets take the case of a baby that was born in San Francisco, California and then shortly after birth moved to Moscow, Russian for 35 years. Even though they have not participated in elections or military service, they have not been stripped of their U.S. citizenship. One minor requirement is that the individual in question locate a Russian Translation company that can do a quick and accurate translation of any identification records that might be requested by the U.S. government.

Now there are certainly special instances where the need for a Legal Translation Services company that specializes in immigration law will come into play. For instance, what happens to interested individuals who were born “Out of Wedlock” to a U.S. citizen father? Things can get tricky here. That’s because citizenship is not guaranteed and may be based on whatever relationship you have with the your father. However, if your parents were not married at the time you were born, the laws of the time may refer to you as “illegitimate,” meaning in legal terms that you have no recognized father. We hope to touch on this a little bit later as we dive more deeply into the world of immigration law and find that in this event, it generally comes down to satisfying the legitimation law of your birth country and the actions taken by your father. Legitimation laws require fathers to legally acknowledge their children.

We hope you enjoyed this article and invite you to continue to visit our website for additional information that pertains to translation services and immigration, visas, and green cards.

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