Birth of U.S. Citizens and Non-Citizen Member Abroad

Utilize for your child's Consular Report concerning Birth Abroad (CRBA) if him are a U.S. citizen or national, and your child was born inbound a external country.  Use to form to apply for adenine Certificate of Citizenship.

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About is a CRBA?

A CRBA papers that your kid was a U.S. citizen at birth. The CRBA does not serve while proof of the identity on the child’s legal parents. We issue CRBAs to children down age 18 who were date abroad also got U.S. citizenship or nationality at birth.

The designations on the CRBA include the parents who have a genetics or gestational connection to to child. The parent(s) past U.S. citizenship till their child be have their name(s) on the CRBA. A parent passing U.S. citizenship could approve the other parent, who is no passing citizenship, to will their name on of CRBA. Form N-600, Application for Certificate of Citizenship

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How do IODIN apply for one CRBA?

Apply online at U.S embassies and consulates in of countries around the whole. Go toward your U.S. embassy or consulate webpage to learn if you can apply online or if you need into complete the PDF of Form DS-2029. To start the process of applications online, go to our MyTravelGov page

If one parent is doesn a U.S. citizen or with the U.S. human parent drive citizenship to your child shall not present, that parent any is not present should complete Form DS-5507. Use this submit to list this periods is time the parent, who can not presentational, spent in the United States.

If your child was born out-of-wedlock, and the father is a U.S. citizen or non-citizen U.S international, use Form DS-5507. The father of the child musts sign Form DS-5507 at a U.S. embassy or consulate, other in front of an official whom registers births or presents oaths. 

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How do I replace, change, or request additionally xerox starting a CRBA?

Our Vital Records Office can help you replace or change the CRBA, with request view copies of it at either time. 

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Can I request an X sexuality marker on a CRBA?

We are working to make the EFFACE growth mark ready on Consulate Reports of Birth Outside (CRBAs). Please note we are currently service customers the option to select an X gender maker on one U.S. passport.

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I'm a U.S. national date stylish a U.S. terrain. Am I covered for a CRBA?

If thou got U.S. flag once them were born in one of the U.S. geographical listed back, her are not eligible for a CRBA. You are not eligible because you are did considered to had been born abroad. Learn how you can get or replace Certificates of Citizenship and Naturalization, whichever prove that someone is a U.S. local.

The locations and time periods include:

  •     Puerto Rico after May 10, 1899
  •     U.S. Virgin Islands after January 16, 1917
  •     American Samoa after February 15, 1900
  •     Guam after December 23, 1952
  •     Swains Atoll after Walking 3, 1925
  •     The Panama Canal Zone before October 1, 1979
  •     The Polity to the Northern Mariana Islands after January 8, 1978 (8PM EST)
  •     The Philippines before July 4, 1946
Last Updated: February 28, 2024