Baby on the way :)

[sreeni]

Hi John,Kaylami,Chess

Hope you are all well, I am moving on a bit and shall become a dad soon next week perhaps

Just checking is there anything I need to do regards visa for my baby? Just to remid you I am British , my wife is indian , and has almost completed 1yr of her 2yr spouse visa.

Also Im assuming the baby will not be british automatically since I and parents used to be indian but became british when i was about 4 yrs old, and i think there is some grandfather rule or somthing which means my baby isnt automatically british if the grandfather wasnt born in uk?

anyways no problem for the moment as we dont plan on visiting india until at least the baby is over 1 yr old

Many thanks for all your help in the past guys

[Smit]

Congratulations!

I assume that your baby will be born in the UK?

If yes, it will be British automatically (you don't say how you became a BC), all you need to do is send in a passport application for the baby, not sure the exact docs required but these will probably be the baby's birth certificate, your passport and marriage certificate.

A baby born in the UK is automatically British if either parent is settled here (ILR, ROA/BC).

[olisun]

btw there are 2 birth certificates issued and you have to send the big one for your baby's passport

[John]

sreeni, hope your wife has an easy time with the forthcoming birth .... and that they are all are OK.

Only a slight exaggeration ..... giving birth is the easy bit ... getting a photo that is OK to get the child a British Passport ... that is the difficult bit! Have fun!

[Mars007]

What happens if your spouse lives abroad and gives birth to a child.

How do you register your child birth with the High Commission. What is the procedure and how long it takes?

[olisun]

What happens if your spouse lives abroad and gives birth to a child.

How do you register your child birth with the High Commission. What is the procedure and how long it takes?

u mean if either of the parents hold ILR atleast?

[Mars007]

Yes.

[olisun]

don't know the exact details but it's relatively straight forward and doesn't take much time

[ppron747]

What happens if your spouse lives abroad and gives birth to a child.

How do you register your child birth with the High Commission. What is the procedure and how long it takes?

Can you give us a bit more of a clue, Mars007? Status of parents? British? Country in which child is to be born?

[Mars007]

Father is British and the mother is an Indian.

[ppron747]

The BHC's website seems very good on this subject - here's the link to the relevant page.

[John]

Father is British and the mother is an Indian.

If you child is born outside the UK it is necessary to enquire the basis of your British Nationality? So how are you British? Were you born in the UK? Or for example have you been naturalised as British?

I ask because if you were born outside the UK and are only British because you have inherited that from say your father, then you are British "by decent" and any child of yours born outside the UK will not be British.

Whereas, irrespective of how you are British, any child of yours born in the UK will automatically be British.

[Mars007]

John Born in Britain.

[John]

What happens if your spouse lives abroad and gives birth to a child.

OK, now that it seems you are "British otherwise than by decent" if your wife gives birth outside the UK the child will be British from birth, but there is some paperwork to do to prove that.

The birth will obviously need to be registered where the baby is born. After that has happened it will be a question of getting in touch with the nearest British Mission and then getting a British-style birth certificate for the child, and also a British passport.

I suggest you log on to the website of that British Mission. There will be much more information there.

[Mars007]

Thanks John. Can you give me some sort of link or more info??

[Mars007]

Any ideas?

[ppron747]

Ideas about what? I gave you a link a fortnight ago to the website of the British Hgih Commission in New Delhi. It tells you what to do, and what documents are required.

[sreeni]

Hi All,

Sorry for not coming to this website in a long time , but it has been blocked at work so i can no longer access it , anyways on a happier note my wife has had our baby and he is just over a month old now , I have got his birth certificate just a week ago as it took this long to decide a name for him , in the end we called him Nithin. I have registered online for child benefit in my name not my wifes as she is still on her 2 yr spouse visa.

anyways i was thinking do i need to get the baby a passport now? and can it be an indian passport or a british one or can he have both? Im thinking in future when we visit india if he gets an indian passport he wont have to get a visa , which i currently have to do , if he does get an indian passport will it need any kind of stamp to say hes british ? so that he can come back to england.

these are all thoretical since we wont be going anywhere until he is at least 1 yr old.

[John]

Sreeni, congratulations on the birth.

You ask questions. I merely say have a good read through this topic, that you started. All should be clear to you. Simply you are British and therefore so is your child. Merely fill in a child passport application form, available from any Post Office, to obtain the child's British passport.

[sreeni]

John you are the best source of this kind of info. Good Job Man