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2. Name Exactly as it Appears on Your Permanent

C. Provide information about your current immigration

Resident Card (if different from above). Write your name

status in the United States.

exactly as it appears on your card, even if it is misspelled.

D. Provide information if you adjusted to permanent

Write N/A if you do not have a permanent resident card.

resident status while in the United States including the

date, USCIS office, and location where USCIS granted

3. Other Names Used Since Birth (if applicable. Include

your status or location where you were admitted as a

nicknames). Write any other name(s) you have used since

permanent resident.

birth. Attach an additional sheet(s) of paper if more space

is needed.

17. Previous Application for Certificate of Citizenship or

U.S. Passport. If you previously applied for a Certificate

7. Country of Prior Citizenship/Nationality. Provide the

of Citizenship or a U.S. Passport (or you are a U.S. citizen

name of the country of your citizenship/nationality before

parent who previously applied for a Certificate of

you became a U.S. citizen.

Citizenship or U.S. Passport for your minor child),

A. If the country no longer exists or you are stateless,

explain on a sheet of paper what happened with that

provide the name of the foreign country where you

application and whether the Certificate of Citizenship or

were last a citizen or national.

U.S. Passport was or was not issued.

B. If you are a citizen or national of more than one

18. Permanent Resident Status Abandonment. Indicate if

country, provide the name of the foreign country that

you have ever abandoned your permanent residence.

issued your latest passport.

19. Information on Adoption. If you were adopted, provide

8. Gender. Indicate whether you are male or female.

information as to the date and place of the adoption and

the dates that legal and physical custody began.

9. Height. Provide your height in feet and inches.

20. Re-Adoption in the United States. Indicate if you have

11. Mailing Address. Provide your mailing address even if it

been re-adopted in the United States. (See Required

is the same as your home address. Provide "in care of

Evidence for more information.)

name" information, if applicable. You must write

21. Marital Status of Your Parents At Time of Birth (or

something in every box, except an apartment number or

Adoption). Indicate whether your parents were married to

“C/O” if you do not have one, within “Mailing

each other at the time of your birth. If you were born out-

Address."

of-wedlock, indicate “No" even if your parents

NOTE: USCIS may not be able to contact you if you do

subsequently married. If you were adopted, indicate

not provide a complete and valid address. If USCIS rejects

whether your adoptive parents were married to each other

at the time of your adoption.

your application, USCIS may not be able to return the fee

for the Form N-600 to you if you do not provide a

NOTE: If you are a U.S. citizen parent applying on behalf

complete and valid address. If USCIS cannot return the fee

of a minor biological or adopted child, indicate whether

USCIS will cash your check.

you were married to his or her parent at the time of your

minor child's birth (or adoption). If your minor child was

14. Marital Status. Check the marital status you have on the

born out-of-wedlock, indicate “No,” even if you

date you file this Form N-600. Check “Other” if your

subsequently married your child's biological parent.

marriage was otherwise legally terminated and explain.

22. Marital Status of Your Parents After Birth. Indicate

15. U.S. Armed Forces. Indicate if you are a member or

whether your parents married after your birth.

veteran of any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.

23. Legal and Physical Custody. Indicate whether you are

16. Information About Your Admission Into the United

in the physical and legal custody of your U.S. citizen

States and Current Immigration Status.

parent.

A. Provide information about where you entered the

24. Absences from the United States. Provide the

United States and what name you used when you

requested information for every trip that you have taken

entered.

since you first arrived in the United States. Begin with the

B. Provide information about what documents you

most recent trip. This information is needed only for

persons born before October 10, 1952, who are claiming

presented to enter the United States. Provide your

passport number and date of issuance, if known.

U.S. citizenship at the time of birth.

Form N-600 Instructions (Rev. 12/23/16) N Page 5

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