Can my grandfather become an american citizen if his dad was an american citizen?

2017-05-04 6:54 am
So here is the story. My great grandfather was from scotland and he moved to Mexico, and he secretly had two girlfriends at the same time, my great grandmother and another woman, he first impregnated my great grandmother and a few months later he impregnated the other woman. He decided to marry the other woman, and when my grandfather was born he didn't even recognize him, so my great grandmother decided that if she couldn't get my great grandfather's love she would abandon him and so she did. My grandfather grew up alone with no family, in a very poor mexican town, eating roots of the trees to survive, while my great grandfather was a very rich man, he had mines throughout mexico and a lot of ranches with livestock, he was among the richest men in Mexico. He then invested in the US, and he obtained the citizenship for him, his wife and his 4 children. Many years later in life, when my great grandfather was 90 years old, he decided to recognize my grandpa, two months later he died. My grandfather siblings all live in the US because they are American, but my grandpa isn't, and he wants to be an American citizen so badly. Is there any way? By the way my great grandfather had a lot of properties in the US, and some of them were meant to be for my grandpa, but his half siblings took what belonged to my grandpa and never told him, how can he claim those properties?

回答 (4)

2017-05-04 9:05 am
Grandpa never had any claim to US citizenship. His father was NOT a US citizen at the time of his birth, and his father, after obtaining US citizenship, did NOT sponsor his immigration. He never could, as he died so very soon after acknowledging paternity.

Doesn't do you or your parent any good if your grandfather could have obtained US citizenship.
2017-05-04 8:14 pm
So you have a family story and like most family stories they are very convoluted and changed each time it is told....... if like many you research your ancestry via real records you will find that it has little truth as records will not prove what you were told.......
Besides that your grandfather was not 'recognised' so an illegitimate child, his father was not on his birth cert, so no written proof of male parent = no claim on the citizenship of his father AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH and as he was not a US citizen then he has no claim on US citizenship anyway
2017-05-04 7:21 am
No.

For this to have worked, your great-grandfather had to be an American at the time your grandfather was born. But even if that had been the case, today your grandfather would have to prove this based on double DNA testing of him and his father, who is now deceased.
參考: An immigrant from Europe, I live on the American Riviera and work as an attorney in Santa Barbara, California.
2017-05-04 6:59 am
You Grandfather can apply for US citizenship or apply to be a resident alien. But he needs to do it legally.

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