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Hi, I have a similar situation, I've got my ILR, but my UK born son was not included. I have filled the MN1 form and now waiting to get it approved.Greenie wrote:You can claim child benefit once you have ilr.
it is you and who is claiming the benefit, not your son therefore it is your eligibility that matters. You can therefore claim child benefit. However you'll need to have the child's birth certificate and evidence of your ilr- are these with ukba?plaistow2005 wrote:Hi, I have a similar situation, I've got my ILR, but my UK born son was not included. I have filled the MN1 form and now waiting to get it approved.Greenie wrote:You can claim child benefit once you have ilr.
My question is while I am waiting to get the result of MN1 application, can I apply for Child Benefit?
Obviously my son is currently neither on ILR nor British and I am wondering whether he is eligible for CB or not until his BC get approved.
Thanks Greenie, it is clear now. The documents are with me as I applied the MN1 application through NCS and they only took copy.Greenie wrote:However you'll need to have the child's birth certificate and evidence of your ilr- are these with ukba?
Hi Greenie, As you mentioned the CB can be backdated but if not eligible then we shouldnt but there is nothing on the form which i can put a date from where i want the benefit to start. any advise please on how to about this ?Greenie wrote:You can claim child benefit once you have ilr. Claims for child benefit can be backdated for three months but not if you were not eligible to claim in that three month period in other words your claim cannot be back dated to before you were granted ilr.
Hi,REGISTRATION wrote:After My ILR
I applied for registration first (next day after ILR), it took about 6 weeks
meanwhile prepared all CB forms and right after getting registration certificate applied for CB with original (short) BC
and at the same time applied for CTC but they check the details with CB for verification and they sent the letter they are unable to verify - mentioned them sending the CB same day (they are verifying with them again)
now got paid with CB backdated to the time of "immigration control" and still waiting for CTC
the form asks if you were subjec to immigration control in the last 3 months. so you would answer yes to this question.Keyrun wrote:Hi Greenie, As you mentioned the CB can be backdated but if not eligible then we shouldnt but there is nothing on the form which i can put a date from where i want the benefit to start. any advise please on how to about this ?Greenie wrote:You can claim child benefit once you have ilr. Claims for child benefit can be backdated for three months but not if you were not eligible to claim in that three month period in other words your claim cannot be back dated to before you were granted ilr.
Thank you- this does helps.abed9631 wrote:I don't know why...but some people tend to complicate certain matters which are in fact pretty simple to understand and follow....may be over consciousness. Anyway, I myself have been through this process and can tell you what happenned........I got ilr on 23rd Feb.......applied for CB the week after (child's short BC and copy of my passport included)...........BC returned+confirmation of CB received next week........money deposited on my acc backdated for 2 weeks. So you can see that applying for CB is very simple and straight forward thing...........No need to send child's full BC.............or parents original passport........or to register the child as British Citizen before applying for CB. I presume that they've robust system in place to check your detail very quickly and satisfactorily.
Hope this helps people who will be applying CB in future.
I agree and found that people around you sometimes make things very complicated. I am going to get ILR card tomorrow and i want to apply for CB but one of my friend said:abed9631 wrote:I don't know why...but some people tend to complicate certain matters which are in fact pretty simple to understand and follow....may be over consciousness. Anyway, I myself have been through this process and can tell you what happenned........I got ilr on 23rd Feb.......applied for CB the week after (child's short BC and copy of my passport included)...........BC returned+confirmation of CB received next week........money deposited on my acc backdated for 2 weeks. So you can see that applying for CB is very simple and straight forward thing...........No need to send child's full BC.............or parents original passport........or to register the child as British Citizen before applying for CB. I presume that they've robust system in place to check your detail very quickly and satisfactorily.
Hope this helps people who will be applying CB in future.