We have a massive illegal immigration problem in this country that is being ignored by the federal government, yet this paperwork mix up is what they’re focusing on? Disgusting.

This makes no sense. I would greatly question the source, even if it seems to be a legitimate news source. I won’t say I am an expert or anything, but I have dealt extensively with US Immigration (three German-national stepchildren), and several things in the story directly contradict the law. For instance, they say that the parents were stalled when applying for a green card for their daughter. However, the foreign-born children of US citizens (even those who are naturalized) are automatically US citizens – no green card requirement at all, no matter where she was born. As long as she is the father’s daughter, he has attained citizenship, and she is a minor, there is no need to immigrate her at all. Something more is going on here.

Puasamanda, you are slightly incorrect on your assessment of the chldren automatically being citizens just because the father is. They can automatically become citizens if the father was a citizen at the time of their birth and the parents file for a passport within a month of the childs birth. My husband and I looked into this when we were considering having our baby in Sweden (his country of birth). And as th oldest American born member on both sides of my parents family, I can tell you for sure foreign born kids do not just automatically get citizenship just because the parents are citizens. The parents can sponsor kids under the age of eighteen for citizenship. Many of my older cousins had to go through this.

There is currently this thing in Congress where they are looking into giving automatic legal status to the many children that have been brought to the U.S. at a very young age and have no ties to the country of their birth. You would be amazed by the amount of parents that are of legal status but their chidlren are not.

I live in GA. There are thousands and thousands of illegals here from under the fence south of Texico…I mean Texas..lol. Why one family from Poland? This is ..Bllsht you ought to see what I do here….then you know the system suks. How is that 100 foot fence coming along??yeah just what I thought….

Send your story to the Local Congressman and to your local Senator, plead with them for a Nunc Pro Tunc to be put in place. This is when the Immigration department can forgive the person for being out of status or taking to long before filing because you can prove that it was not the childs fault or for this matter the parrents fault. If you can prove that the lawyers made a mistake and then show the tremendous hardships your child will be put through and also now you as the father and a US citizen the Nunc Pro Tunc might just work. You will have to file for a visa of some sort for her, ask for the Nunc Pro Tunc to be approved in order for Visa to be approved and then also go one step further and ask for the change of status to be made here in USA and not in Poland since the minute you leave USA with her there might be a 3 to 10 year bann against her. I have never heard of children under the age of 18 to be kicked out. I have always been told children are innocent and adults are guilty when it comes to immigration. So the bann according to me should not apply to her, but hey immigration is not always the kindest. So speak to a good lawyer get your letter with family pictures and history story ready, apply for a Nunc Pro Tunc and get Congress to phone the Immigration office and get this sorted out for you guys. A ray of hope. It just worked for me. My husband passed two and a half years ago, I filled for a student visa thinking I will be ok not knowing I just had 6 months to do so. I was 9 months pregnant at the time my husband passed and had three other kids to take care off. I was denied the visa and classified illegal and had to leave the country we lived here for 10 years legally as visa holders and tax payers. I enlisted the help of Goverment and was granted the Nunc Pro Tunc. For immigration here in US you are innocent untill proven guilty, in your country and my country it is guillty untill proven innocent. Even if you have a visa approved for her here and just travel back to have in stamped into her passport they have the power to deny you and not stamp it into her passport. And the person with this power to decide your future is the person whom sits at the front window and look at all the paperwork. Rather fight your battle from this side your exspense will be less and it will be less devastating to the child. Get the teachers in school involved to write letters. Trust me you have a better change to get things done on this side than on that side and having to fork out money when you had to leave your company in US unattended will devastate your family financially in future as well. Good Luck.