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If you got your ILR in May 2021 and the child was born in the UK, why didn't you immediately register him as a British citizen? The British-born child had an entitlement to be registered as a British citizen when either one parent got ILR.
Not to the best of my knowledge. There are two documents on the Gov.UK that deal with the charging of overseas visitors. I would treate your child as being in an analogous situation, being that they were in the UK without having paid IHS.
It is dated October 2023. I applied for his passport immediately and got it same month as well.secret.simon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:14 amWhen was the child's registration certificate received?
In hindsight, that would have been the best thing to do. I just thought I would apply for his citizenship directly with mine.secret.simon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:14 amIf you got your ILR in May 2021 and the child was born in the UK, why didn't you immediately register him as a British citizen? The British-born child had an entitlement to be registered as a British citizen when either one parent got ILR.
Thanks, I went through those and the main theme is for people who are visitors to UK for relatively short periods and use the NHS. There is little info on situations for someone who got caught out due to timing of application and response from Home Office on naturalisation process.secret.simon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:14 amHow charges for NHS healthcare apply to overseas visitors
Upfront charging operational framework to support identification and charging of overseas visitors
Keep thread updated.BashirB wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:07 pmSo I received a charge of approx £6000.
Around £500 related before citizenship application and rest was when application was in progress.
Spoke with a solicitor and he told me I can fight the £5500 bit on the grounds that the charges were incurred 4 months after my application and had there not been unreasonable delay from Home Office (due to IT issue in August 2022 application), this would not have occurred. Key to point out is that him being a child born in the UK, his citizenship was an entitlement, not something that is at discretion or needed checks to keep it on hold for 13 months. We would argue that an applicant can not be penalised by one state organ due to delays by another.
He also mentioned that NHS debt is enforceable to those who are subject to immigration control. Given we were informed of the charges almost 3 months after getting our passports, we can just ignore it. We were honest throughout our application that we have not been asked by NHS to pay, so there is no question of providing wrong information on our applications that can lead to rescinding the citizenship.
He also said this being a child under 5, they most likely won't bother, especially as the only leverage they had was "immigration control threats".
We agreed to wait and see what happens next.
The invoice is addressed to "parents of XXXXXX", so I guess they will end up on ours eventually.secret.simon wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:21 amWould the debt impact the credit report for either parent or child?