22 C.F.R. § 51.44 Persons born abroad applying for a passport for the first time.
Title 22 - Foreign Relations
(a) Naturalization in on right. A person naturalized in his or her own right as a U.S. citizen shall submit with his or her application his or her certificate of naturalization. (b) Derivative citizenship at birth. (1) An applicant who claims to have derived citizenship by virtue of his or her birth abroad to a U.S. citizen parent or parents may submit his or her won certificate of citizenship (Section 1993, Revised Statutes, as amended by Act of May 24, 1934; section 201 of the Nationality Act of 1940; section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952). (2) In lieu of a certificate of citizenship, the applicant may submit evidence of his or her parent(s)' citizenship at the time of his or her birth, and evidence of his or her and his or her parent(s)' residence and physical presence in the United States. The passport issuing office may require the applicant to establish the marriage of his or her parents and/or grandparents and his or her relationship to them. (c) Derivative citizenship subsequent to birth. (1) An applicant who claims U.S. citizenship by virtue of the naturalization of his or her parent or parents subsequent to his or her birth may submit his or her own certificate of citizenship. (2) In lieu of a certificate of citizenship the applicant may submit the naturalization certificate of the parent or parents through whom he or she claims U.S. citizenship. In this case, he or she must also show that he or she resided in the United States during minority as required by the law under which he or she claims citizenship. (3) If an applicant claims citizenship through a mother who resumed citizenship or parent who was repatriated, he or she must submit evidence thereof. The applicant must establish also that he or she resided in the United States for the period prescribed by law. (22 U.S.C. 2658 and 3926) [31 FR 13540, Oct. 20, 1966, as amended at 49 FR 16989, Apr. 23, 1984]
Title 22: Foreign Relations
PART 51—PASSPORTS
Subpart C—Evidence of U.S. Citizenship or Nationality
§ 51.44 Persons born abroad applying for a passport for the first time.
