How do I or Can I claim American Citizenship through blood?

Question

I am an adult unmarried Canadian citizen. My Father (deceased) became an American citizen through my Grandmother who claimed citizenship through her Father (born in Ohio). My father did not live in the US until I was about 12-13. I was born in 1981. Do I have or can I claim American citizenship through bloodline?

Answer 1

if you have alive american relatives like mother, brother, sister, children, father, and wife then you can get citizenship. the catch is the relative has to proof the relationship and they file for this.

since your father is dead he can not file for you and citizenship through bloodline is not going to happen.

you can come to american anytime since you are canadian. it is not difficult to live in america for a canadian citizen.

Answer 2

You most likely had a claim to US citizenship through your father but now that you are an adult it might have passed you by.  I am an American citizen and my son was born in Canada also.  After his birth we took him to the US Consulate in Canada and filed for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad.  This is his US citizenship certificate.  

The US parent must be able to show residency in the US for 5 years and 2 of those years have to be after the age of 14.

For you I suggest that you look at this website www.amcits.com and see if the requirements for claiming your US citizenship can be met.

You will need to click on the Adult Determination link as you are now past the age of 18.

Hope this helps you.  

Answer 3

If you were born abroad to ONE U.S. citizen:

In most cases, you are a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true:

• One of your parents was a U.S. citizen when you were born;

• Your citizen parent lived at least 5 years in the United States before you were born; and

• At least 2 of those 5 years in the United States were after your citizen parent’s 14th birthday.

Your record of birth abroad, if registered with a U.S. consulate or embassy, is proof of your citizenship. You may also apply for a passport to have your citizenship recognized. If you need additional proof of your citizenship, you may file an “Application for Certificate of Citizenship” (Form N-600) with USCIS to get a Certificate of Citizenship. Call the USCIS Forms Line at 1-800-870-3676 to request

Form N-600, or download the form at www.uscis.gov.

If you were born before November 14, 1986, you are a citizen if your U.S. citizen parent lived in the United States for at least 10 years and 5 of those years in the United States were after your citizen parent’s 14th birthday.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/M-476...

Answer 4

Depending upon the laws in place in 1981, your father could have passed his citizenship to you if he had been born a citizen and lived in the US for 5 years, at least 2 of them after age 14 - before you were born.

As he didn't do that -you cannot claim citizenship through him.

You should review the laws yourself and make sure that the laws in 1981 didn't differ from that.

Answer 5

Usually, you have to be born here to be a citizen.  I've never heard of citizenship by bloodline, citizenship by grandparents.

Answer 6

Your grandparents' citizenship is irrelevant.  Unless your grandmother claimed citizenship for your father based on her citizenship for him to move to the US as a minor child, your father's citizenship is debatable, and he is deceased, so you cannot ask him what's what.  If your father was a US citizen, he should have claimed US citizenship for you at the time of your birth by registering "birth to a US citizen abroad" at the nearest consulate.  It seems pretty obvious he did not do this.  

You do not, from the info you have given, appear to have any proof that your father was indeed a US citizen, and it seems that you have been living your life elsewhere.  The chances that you have any valid claim to US citizenship by birth to a US citizen appear to be remote.

Answer 7

My understanding is you must be born on American soil, be it IN America or through military operations.  You are Canadian.  Just because my grandmother came from Germany does not make me a German citizen.