Hello Everyone,
I'm unable to find a reliable answer to the following question and hope someone will be able to help me today.
Can a natural born U.S. citizen transmit citizenship automatically at birth to an-inwedlock biological child born outside of the U.S. and it's territories to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent after 1952 but before 1986 if the U.S. citizen parent does not fulfill the residency requirements to automatically transmit citizenship at birth to the child but has a U.S. citizen parent (grandparent of the child born abroad) who does have the required physical presence in the U.S. as necessary?
The N-600 (application for certificate of citizenship) prior to Nov 2010 clearly states that if the citizen parent does not have the required time spent in the U.S. to transmit citizenship to the child then the citizen parent's parent (grandparent) can fulfill the residency requirements via the N-600 Supplement A, Transmission of Citizenship Through a Grandparent. This form was used up until a few year ago when they supposedly incorporated the Supplement A into the newly revised N-600, however, I don't see how or where. (More like it's completely omitted)
I hired an attorney who told me that the grandparent can only fulfill the residency requirements for naturalization purposes. This just doesn't make sense to me as acquiring citizenship at birth automatically is not the same as naturalization. Acquiring automatically at birth does not require an application to request and be approved for a benefit, unlike naturalization where one must request and receive approval for the benefit sought.
Am I correct here or am I just confused and ignorant?

