Hello,
I'm 22years old, British born and have never left Britain. I recently applied for my first adult passport however I have hit a brick wall.
My mother was born in Granada and moved to the Britain when she was about 5 years old, she has never left Britain since, she was educated in Britain and has worked and contributed to the British economy for over 30 years. In the early 1970s my grandmother applied for a full British passport because of the entire issue of Granada becoming independent from Britain. My mother was added onto my grandmothers passport as a child.
Here is the tricky part. My grandmother lost her British passport in the early 2000s when moving house, she is really old and is suffering from mental problems so we couldn’t expect her to apply for a new passport. In early 2009 my mother applied for her first adult passport but she ONLY has her Grenadian passport in her possession which she entered the UK with when she was 5 years old and was advised to naturalisation despite her growing up in Britain i.e. going to school, university and working here and never leaving the country! Unfortunately because my grandmother's British passport was lost my mother was unable to get a passport through her and the home office and Identity & Passport Service were unwilling to search their computers and verify that my mother was indeed added onto my grandmother's full British passport at a young age. Unfortunately because my mother's job required that she has a passport my mother was left with no option but to reluctantly participate in naturalisation to obtain her British passport.
(the passport has since arrived)
Now its gets more tricky. During the summer I have applied for my first adult passport, I sent them my birth certificate as evidence that I was born in England. However they wrote back saying "that a child born on or after the 1 January 1983 shall be a British citizen if, at the time of the childs birth, either parents is British or settled in the United Kingdom". Unfortunately I do not know my father, and getting in contact with him is not an option but according to my birth certificate he wasn’t born in Britain but could of held a British passport or had indefinite leave before I was born, who knows!
As I said earlier my mother has been in the UK since the age of 5 and has never left, doesn’t that constitute as "settled"? The person dealing with my passport application is being very unhelpful and she says regardless of whether my mother was added onto my grandmother’s British passport it was nullified when she naturalised. It wasn’t my mothers fault that they didn't want to search for my grandmother's passport records before she naturalised! (mother was added onto it)
My passport application has been delayed until I can clear this mess up, what is the best method of getting around this issue? If my grandmother was healthy I suppose she could renew for her British passport and that will nullify my mothers naturalisation and hence I can get my British passport, but she isn’t well so that out rules that. I'm unwilling to naturalise as its embarrassing, I was born in Britain and I have never left the country so naturalisation is not an option I'm willing to take just for the formability of obtaining a passport.
Any suggestions welcome.
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