Hello. I am writing out of shear frustration, sadness and utter shame for my children. I was born in the Faroe Islands and brought to the UK when 4yrs old where I have continued to live and work. My paternal grandfather is British. During the war when the Faroes was under British Occupancy he married my grandmother and my father was born, with a British passport. My mother is Faroese.
They married a year after I was born.
When I applied for a British Passport 9yrs ago, assuming I was automatically British (never assume anything my granny used to tell me!) it was declined. I now have a Danish passport and will have to apply for British Citizenship as it expires soon.
This is where the problem begins. My citizenship has been passed onto my children as their British born father, of West African origin, and I never married. They were born and brought up in the UK. When we applied for British passports for them they were declined. They received Danish passports!
My daughter was happy to have a Danish passport as she felt rejected by her own country and ashamed to be British if this is how they view children in her situation. My Son did not want a Danish passport, he was "..British, not Danish". I could not afford at the time, the cost of applying for British nationality for two children.
Their passports have now run out and they have no choice left to them but to apply for citizenship to their country of birth and part heritage and have to pay more than £800 each for the 'privilege'.
We would like to know how this loophole was allowed and why it costs so much to simply fill in an application form on the internet and provide proof of living in the country for the first 10 yrs of ones life.
Not sure if you have covered this but I could do with some help. I feel deeply stressed by this daylight robbery and rejection towards British subjects. Please can you help? Cheers, Emmy.
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