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US citizens living abroad - have you applied for an immigrant visa for your newborn born outside the US?
I've posted on pregnancy, babies, and toddlers forum as well but have had no luck. I am a US citizen, my husband is not. I cannot prove through the necessary documentation that I lived in the US for 5 years and so I cannot use that route to get the US passport for my children born outside the US. For our first baby, we ended up going back to the States and having the delivery there as we were lead to believe that was the only option for automatic US citizenship for her. However, now our second is due in Feb, and while I was at the US embassy end of last week (for something unrelated), I was told that as I am a US citizen, another option is to have the baby here and then apply for an immigrant visa and once we get that, as long as the baby enters the US within 6 months of getting that, he or she automatically gets citizenship. Has anyone else gone down this route and is it worth pursuing? The lady at the embassy did say it was a lot of paperwork and we'd have to go to the Abu Dhabi embassy to get all this done, but if I can avoid having to go stay in the States again now for a few months with a toddler, then it may be worth it. I believe it falls under the Child Citizenship Protection Act.
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