ppron747 wrote: It just doesn't sound right to me: a child cannot renounce British nationality, and a parent cannot do it on a child's behalf. If 6.5 is correct, the child loses Indian citizenship at the very same time that it would have been able to divest itself of British citizenship, if it wished. Essentially, it means that the child is being punished for failing to do something that the law didn't allow it to do. It beggars belief that there isn't some grace period, Kenya-style...
I've lost count of the number of times that question has been addressed here, basis! Yes - acquisition of a British passport for a child born here means that the child cannot be registered as an Indian citizen - or loses Indian citizenship if it has already acquired it.basis wrote:It sounds that Indian law treats acquisition of British Passport for the child as act of renouncing Indian Citizenship. Is this correct ? Or the British HO have understood it wrongly or the Indian babus have managed successfully to confuse them ?
ppron747 wrote: Schedule 2 is the part of the 1981 Nationality Act that gives entitlement to British nationality to (eg) a stateless person born in UK who has spent most of his life here. It is intended to ensure that the UK complies with its obligations under the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Section 4B (also mentioned above) is the provision whereby BOCs, BSs and BPPs who have no other nationality and who haven't renounced or given up another nationality since 4 July 2002 are entitled to be registered as British citizens.
No - I think you have misunderstood...basis wrote:Again what a lack of common sense by the diplomats on both sides. The person who is stateless cannot even apply for OCI. One needs to be a citizen and have a passport of a country that allows dual nationality to have OCI in the first place. And IND is instructing its staff to confirm whether the stateless people have OCI ?
They need to check whether a person who claims he is stateless is telling the truth. A person could produce his cancelled passport to show that he has lost Indian citizenship, and attempt to conceal the fact that he has OCI, in his (say) South African passport that the Home Office didn't know he had. They're trying to check whether he's actually stateless, by covering as many eventualities as possible, however unlikely.