<p>Hi. I’m filling out the application for a passport, and it asks if my mother/father is a U.S. citizen. My parents don’t speak english, so I can’t ask them if they are U.S. citizens because I don’t know how to say it in chinese. How can I find out if they are U.S citizens?</p>
<p>where were they born?</p>
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<p>How do you and your parents communicate with each other?</p>
<p>Ask to see THEIR passports. If they pull out a US passport, then yes, they are US citizens. If they pull out any passport other than a US one, then no.</p>
<p>Exactly where were they born, and do you know how to say “naturalized” in Chinese? They might be. Its odd though…how could you be oblivious to this?</p>
<p>My parents were born in China and came to America a long time ago. I communicate in chinese with them. I talk with really simple words though. And no, I don’t know how to say “naturalized” in Chinese nor do I know what it means in English. LOL.</p>
<p>Wait- that’s so weird. So you can’t communicate with your own parents? I mean, you say you speak chinese, but if that’s all your parents speak to you in, then like, how are you not throroughly fluent?</p>
<p>Come on guys, don’t be so judgemental. Maybe they’re the only people she speaks Chinese with. If the subject has never come up before (though that part is a bit odd), then it’s logical that she wouldn’t know the vocabulary. Just because you speak a language at home doesn’t mean that you automatically know how to say everything. There are two girls in my Spanish class who are both native speakers and speak Spanish at home, but they sometimes have just as much trouble as the rest of us. </p>
<p>To th OP, I would second the suggestion to just look at their passports.</p>
<p>its not being judgemental. We’re wondering how she could go her whole life with out being able to completely speak with her parents.</p>
<p>Yeah. It’s kind of ridiculous. My mom’s also from another country, too, and even though she speaks English really well and to me, I can still speak spanish and portuguese fluently. And not like “basic spanish.” Like, I speak well enough that when I go to south america, people don’t believe me when I tell them I’m from America (when they ask) until I speak English and show them that I speak english like any american.</p>
<p>So if her parents speak to her in Chinese and have always spoken to her in Chinese, then, um, she should speak Chinese, too. That’s ridiculous, otherwise. Really.</p>
<p>look at the passports…</p>
<p>this isn’t ridiculous… it’s just odd… odd like the fact that Al Gore’s house uses up 20x more electricity than the average American household… that kindof odd…</p>
<p>does it really matter what language s/he speaks with his/her parents and whether or not s/he’s fluent?
What’s the big deal? I speak Arabic with a bunch of people and I’m not fluent (well, I can speak pretty well, but never as fluent as my friends)…</p>
<p>Yeah, but you speak it with a bunch of people, not your parents.</p>
<p>This is the first time I have ever heard of someone not being able to communicate effectively with their parents.</p>
<p>By the way, I’m a guy. LOL. I only speak Chinese at home with my parents and English every place else. I only know the basic vocabulary anyway.</p>
<p>Ok. So during dinner today, I asked my mom if she has a U.S. Passport; she said YES. Then I asked my mom if my dad has a U.S. Passport; she said NO. My dad doesn’t have a passport; can I still get MY passport?</p>
<p>of course u can get a passport as long as u are a citizen u can get a passport all u need to have is basically ur birth certificate and fill out the application and mail it in.</p>