Citizenship for a Child born abroad on FLR(FP)

[Dali83]

Dear All,

I want some advice on whether there is any route for my child to be registered/applied to become a British Citizen.

Child born abroad while I had ILR and 2 months after my child was born I did my Ceremony to become British (Oct child born and I became British in December same year)

My child has been in the UK since 2014 and now on FLR (FP) along with my wife. She is 9 year old now and came to the UK when he was 4 5 months old.

Could I make any application for my child to become British somehow as I am not going to afford to keep paying the visa fees for both as they are on 10 years route.

Thanks a lot.

Dalia

[secret.simon]

Children born abroad follow the immigration pathway of their second/less-privileged parent and are eligible for ILR with the second parent.They can then be registered as a British citizen.

Had the child been born in the UK while you were on ILR, the child would have been born a British citizen.

As there are a few years to go for the various immigration and naturalisation applications, can you not put plans in place to save money, as the upcoming expense is known?

[Dali83]

Thank you for your reply,

When the fees were reasonable couple of years ago (I paid nearly £4k 2 years ago), I was able to but no to fork out nearly £6k is not possible for both.

The sad thing is that they did a mistake when calculating my income before my wife's visa was processed and hence it got delayed therefore my child birth was abroad.

[secret.simon]

As both your wife and child are on the FLR(FP) pathway anyway, you can make a fee waiver request before making their FLR(FP) applications. You may get either a full or a partial fee waiver.

You will still need to save for the ILR and naturalisation fees, for which there is no fee waiver.