Hello. I want to know if I can just go get my passport to prove citizenship status.
I was born in Mexico in 1997 and my parents were married just before my birth. They got divorced 2 years after. Mexico has “patria potestad” which is like parental authority, something that I believe is not a thing in the US. That was shared between both my parents and the custody was my mother’s. That’s what happens in more than 90% of the divorce cases where the child is still very young. My dad moved to the US and became a citizen in 2009. In 2015 he got me my green card, just before I turned 18. I have a stamp that proves I crossed the border into the US before my 18th birthday as a LPR. We tried to get my passport right away but my dad did not have the divorce papers translated, so he was just told to try again after he could bring them. We never tried again because he did not technically have custody at the time of the divorce. I have been trying to make a little research and the “patria potestad” is allowing both parents to be responsible and take care of a child, and also decide where they live. I guess that I could go try my luck again by myself with the US passport providing my evidence (stamped Mexican passport) of the child citizenship act applying for myself, even if I’m 6 years late. I don’t know about the custody tho, I guess I can ask for the translated divorce papers and hope the patria potestad applies for the child citizenship act (?)
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