“My father was naturalized at age 9, when his parents became US citizens. We have papers.”
What papers would your father have? Was he born in the USA or in another country?
My mother was not a citizen when I was born yet all I have is her Citizenship Papers.
I know of nothing issued in my name to naturalize me.
He was actually born on a boat between Lithuania and Argentina. They lived in Argentina for 9 years before coming to the US. His name is included, with his siblings, on his parents’ Citizenship papers.
I meant that the family has the papers that belonged to my grandparents in our possession, not that we had citizenship papers.
Those of us born here after our parents/grandparents became citizens are Natural Born citizens. In my case, I am first generation American-born on one side and second generation American-born on the other. My husband is first generation American-born on his father’s side and third generation American-born on his mother’s side. He has possession of his late father’s Citizenship papers.
You know: none of this mattered or was even mentioned much before zer0. My first husband’s father’s family go back to the American Revolution and they were very proud of that and it mattered a lot in some places up to perhaps the early 1960s. After that time, it seemed to be less and less important.