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spartak
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Yopu need your Birth certificate, Your father's Birth certificate and your parent's marriage certificate. All documents need to be original and in the "long form" if they are UK documents.
If your father is UK born, he is probably British other than by decent, which makes you British Other than by decent under Section 2(1)a of the British nationality Act 1981. (In other words, unless you go to live in the UK your kids won't be writish.
LA has (IIRC) passport issuing facilities and you should contact them for more advice on exactly what they want...
Don't forget the cheque...
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spartak
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Originally posted by Oerdin
Taz: I'm a little confused as to the "British other then by decent" thing. My father is ethnically Scottish and born in the U.K. but he immigraited to the U.S. with his parent's in the late 1940's. Would he have lost his British citizenship or does the U.K. allow people to be "duel nationals" like the U.S. does? |
Believe me nothing is straightforward in Nationality law. Basically it means that your father can pass his nationality down because his nationality comes from something other than his father (in this case his place of birth).
The UK allows dual nationality although the US doesn't (there are some exceptions because they now allow you to keep your nationality of Birth if you later become a US Citizen). Your father would have been required to renounce his British Citizenship when he became American (this was only a recent change) but this doesn't count in the UK because an oath in an American court isn't valid to renounce nationality. (You need to go to a consulate and make a special oath to do that). The upshot is you should still be entitled to British Citizenship.
Given the problems of the INS getting shirty when US Citizens takes out two nationalities you may wish to discuss the possibilities of obtaining a "Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode" (COE) in your US passport which means the same as nationality but doesn't tip off the INS that you have taken up your right to British Citizenship. The flies in the ointment with this thiough is that I can't remember if the rules of entitlement to a COE are the same for non-commonwealth citizens - although I have seen Americans with them before but also they aren't recognised on the continent so you would still need a British passport to live in Europe. Also a COE costs £100 (IIRC) but you only pay for the first one and all subsequent transfers into new passports are free.
Please PM if you have any other questions as I'm right on the edge of what I can talk about on a public website (being a civil servant and all that).
Your source of advice should be the Consulate BTW not the Home Office. Check out the FCO website for basic details.
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01-01-2003 01:43
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At that speed I'll already have a new job here in the U.S.
That's harsh.
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