Certificate of Citizenship (N-600) and Citizenship Status Problem

chris19421

May 7, 2011

chris19421

Hello. I am soliciting advice for a problem I am having regarding my adopted son's citizenship status.

We applied for and received his Certificate of Citizenship. Upon attempting to change his citizenship status at Social Security from Permanent Resident to Citizen, we were issued a letter stating that the Department of Homeland Security could not verify his COC.

I called a contact that I have at USCIS. They looked up my son's status via his A number. It turns out that whoever processed his N-600 application did NOT change his status in the computer system to Citizen when they issued the Certificate of Citizenship. Until this is done, Social Secuirty will not update his status in their system.

I wrote USCIS District 5 a letter asking them to correct his status in their system. Do you think this will suffice or will I need to make an appointment on USCIS InfoPass to meet with someone at the District 5 office?

Any advice is welcome.

My local social security office called me yesterday. They were nice enough to keep trying to change my son's status in their system. On May 5, it finally went through. So, it looks like DHS and USCIS finally updated their computer system. Now, thankfully, I dont meed to make an InfoPass appointment to straighten this out. Sometime, all it takes is writing a letter and finding the right government employee to work with.