<p>I’m a Canadian applying to US schools as an international. Do you think it will make any difference that my father is an American citizen?</p>
<p>Are you asking if it will be easier or what?</p>
<p>I’m Canadian too, except it’s my mom who is a U.S. citizen. I don’t think her status made any difference in my case, I would have been admitted here regardless based on my ACT/SATs and HS grades.</p>
<p>Wait, doesn’t jus sanguinis make you an US citizen too?</p>
<p>"the children of citizens of the United States born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States. "</p>
<p>No, sinced it’s only my dad that’s an American citizen there is some restriction that I must have lived in the United States for 5 years or more to be considered… something like that.</p>
<p>majami, I think you should look into it again if you want to get US Citizenship based on your father’s status. My “mom” adopted me when she and my dad married, and I was eligible for U.S. citizenship based on her status as long as we applied for it prior to my 18th birthday. I lived in Canada full time until this past August.</p>
<p>Really? Wow I really need to look into that. Does it make a difference that he has dual citizenship, though?</p>
<p>No, it count’s for nothing.</p>
<p>If you have a US citizen parent you normally qualify for citizenship at birth. The rules are a bit tricky so you really need to do some research. You can start at [USCIS</a> Home Page](<a href=“http://www.uscis.gov%5DUSCIS”>http://www.uscis.gov)</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>My son was born in England. US Dad/British Mom. He got a US citizen born abroad birth certificate within days of his birth and had a US passport at 10 days old without having set foot in the US. He is and always has always been considered a US citizen. (He also is a dual citizen with British citizenship.).</p>
<p>If it turns out that you aren’t immediately eligible for US citizenship, you should be eligible for permanent resident (green card) status based on your Dad’s citizenship. That would get you into the US applicant pool for financial aid. Why might you not be eligible for citizenship? This could be possible if your Dad was born in the US to non-citizen parents, moved out of US as a child, and then never lived here for any great stretch of time. </p>
<p>Like swimcatsmom, I’ve got a dual-citizen kid who was born abroad. To get her passport, I had to prove that I’d been resident in the US for a certain number of years after a certain age (and I was born here and lived here all my life until that foreign move). The consular officer accepted my college transcripts as evidence of US residence. But the rules on this stuff keep changing which is why I think you need to read the USCIS website, and then make an appointment with Citizens’ Services at the US consulate nearest to your home.</p>