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British, British, Britishchetkav wrote:We are married couple from non-EU country. We hold ILR issued in March 2006. We are expecting child in next few months.
Query:-
1) What will be the citizenship of the "yet to be born" child when born?
2) The child will get which passport - British OR will get the passport of the parents' country.
The child will have British citizenship if at least one parent holds ILR - which you do, so s/he will be a BC at birth. Check out the BIA website for all this - or do a search on this board because there are loads of similar queries. Will the baby be born in the UK? Also - you've had ILR for over a year - any intention of applying for naturalisation? It'll cost you a whole lot more now...(unless you received ILR in an exceptional circumstance and need to wait 5 years?)chetkav wrote:We are married couple from non-EU country. We hold ILR issued in March 2006. We are expecting child in next few months.
Query:-
1) What will be the citizenship of the "yet to be born" child when born?
2) The child will get which passport - British OR will get the passport of the parents' country.
The child will definitely be a British citizen if born here in the UK, but it could also be a citizen of your country if your country allows dual citizenship. Which country are you from?chetkav wrote:We are married couple from non-EU country. We hold ILR issued in March 2006. We are expecting child in next few months.
Query:-
1) What will be the citizenship of the "yet to be born" child when born?
2) The child will get which passport - British OR will get the passport of the parents' country.
That's right. Bear in mind too that, depending on the citizenship laws of the country of citizenship of the child's parents (i.e. of you and your spouse), the child may also be a citizen of that country (or countries).chetkav wrote:The child will be born in the U.K.
So, going by advice of all you friends it is sure that the child will be British Citizen.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH Olisun, Sakura, Dawie, John, VictoriaS.
Chetkav
Victoria - assuming you mean child being registered without a British citizen parent, have you any reference for that in the Nationality Instructions? I'm not saying it isn't in there but I've never come across it before now.VictoriaS wrote:If the child is born outside of the UK and you then bring him / her back to the UK, and you are clearly still settled here, then it may be possible for you to get him registered as British under a concession, even though he was born overseas. You would need to show that the trip abroad for the birth was only a short trip, and that you intend to remain with the UK as your home.
I see nothing to that effect in the Nationality Instructions. Normally the deal is:VictoriaS wrote:I'll do a search in the nationality instructions when I get a chance, but I had a case like this a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure the situation hasn't changed. The parents were clearly settled in the UK, I seem to remember that the mother was on holiday and complications arose so she couldn't fly back to the UK. When the child was born and she flew back, they made the application and it was granted, though I don't know if it was by descent or other than.
Registration under section 3(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981 is always "discretionary" but there are policies to determine how this discretion should be exercised.VictoriaS wrote:I got the impression at the time that it was discretionary, so I'm not surprised it's not in there. I may have got someone on a good day.