I have a US passport but..?

Question

I have a US passport, and no other. I wasn't born here, but was born in the Middle East. I don't have any other passport except the US one.. I've lived in CA since I was 5 (had a greencard at the time. My dad still has one, but my mom became a citizen years ago. I had to get an emergency passport (got it very quickly) for travel outside the US, and I no longer have a greencard. I know that doesn't technically make me a citizen, so what DOES it make me? I don't know what to check off on applications... should I take the citizenship test and, if so, why?

i'm not a minor, i'm 22. when my mom became a citizen, i was under 18 though.

Answer 1

It seems you likely qualified as a citizen when your mother was naturalized, otherwise you would not have been issued a passport. But it also seems that there is a lot of nuance in these matters.

I found an article with this paragraph:
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A child born in a foreign country of alien parents, or adopted by alien parents, may have become a United States citizen automatically after birth, without having himself or herself applied for naturalization, if one or both of his or her parents became naturalized before the child reaches a certain age It must be noted that the law in effect at the time of the parent's naturalization will determine if the child becomes a citizen.
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The entire article is here:
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/imm11.htm

Answer 2

i do no longer comprehend what the line fee of a British Passport is, yet i comprehend while my passport became stolen, i became instructed US passports have been going for huge quantities of greenbacks. That became back in 1997. i do no longer comprehend what they're well worth now. they may be well worth no longer something now that there are greater safeguards related to them. Regardless, i think of any eu passport or Canadian passport is well worth as much as a US passport. Australian and New Zealand passports much less so considering which you may not certainly enter a third united states of america with them, as you may in Europe or North usa which shares a land border with yet another/different united states of america/s.

Answer 3

I don't know anything about an 'emergency passport' but I do know that one does not automatically become a US citizen if their parent becomes one.

If you wish to become a citizen, you should apply for it. IF you don't wish to be a US citizen, you might wanna apply for a passport from the country you were born in.

You might even be considered an illegal at this point but that's another point I don't know.

Answer 4

If you have a valid U.S. Passport issued by the State Departmen, you are a citizen.

Only U.S. Citizens can get a U.S. Passport.

Completely true.

Answer 5

If you have a valid U.S. Passport issued by the State Departmen, you are a citizen.

Only U.S. Citizens can get a U.S. Passport.

Answer 6

If you were a minor, under 18, when your mother natrualized you are a US citizen automaticly