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by zohal » Fri Dec 09, 2016 9:49 pm
First British passport applicants born or adopted outside the UK – parents’ or adoptive parents’ documents
Please provide the following:
The passport you entered the country from which you are applying, and if different, any non-British passport held as well as the evidence shown in the table below:
Born before 1 January 1983 • your father’s full birth certificate (showing both the child’s and parents’ details) or naturalisation or registration certificate; and
• his marriage certificate to your mother.
Born on or after 1 January
1983
• one of your parents’ full birth certificate (showing both the child’s and parents’ details) or naturalisation or registration certificate; and
• if this is your father, his marriage certificate to your mother (this does not apply for those born on or after 1 July 2006).
Born abroad but adopted in
the UK before 1 January 1983
• the child’s full adoption certificate (showing both the child’s and parents’ details); and
• evidence of adoptive parent’s claim to British nationality by providing their UK birth or adoption, naturalisation or registration certificate; and
• if the adoption is a joint adoption, we need evidence of the adoptive father’s claim to British nationality.
Applicants who were adopted
abroad who do not have a
naturalisation or registration
certificate
• an adoption certificate (where the Hague Convention applies the certificate should clearly state that the adoption took place under the Hague Convention under Article 17
of the Convention on Intercountry Adoption); and
• one adopter’s claim to British nationality by providing their birth certificate or naturalisation or registration certificate; and
• evidence of an adopter’s habitual residence in the UK (or both adopters in the case of joint adoption). Habitual residence is their normal home, the place where they have
