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Question about status of my US/UK child...
« on: December 22, 2003, 05:58:28 PM »
So I'm organizing on paper all the things I have to do once little Philip is born in March/April, and I've got a question.

I know in order to get him a US passport I have to register his birth at the Embassy (£60 btw), and at that time I can apply for his US passport (£70 btw).

As for the English side of things, am I right in thinking I only have to apply for his passport, and that I *don't* have to register him as a citizen? I mean, I know I have to go to the registrar's office after he's born and register him then, I guess I'm asking if there's anything else he needs registering for - - or is that what the registrar does? Set him in stone as English?

Couldn't fine any info on this anywhere... blah!
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Re: Question about status of my US/UK child...
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2003, 06:29:23 PM »
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As for the English side of things, am I right in thinking I only have to apply for his passport, and that I *don't* have to register him as a citizen?

You don't have to do anything besides register his birth.  The fact that he will be born in the United Kingdom of a British parent1 is enough to qualify him as a British citizen, with full rights to a British passport.

See: BN1: Information about British citizenship for more information.  Scroll down to 'Will a child who is born in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1983 be a British citizen'.


1. Rules are different for parents where the British father is not married to the foreign national mother.
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Re: Question about status of my US/UK child...
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2003, 08:41:45 PM »
Thank you - - and I love the "baby does Christmas" picture!!!!!
I'm done moving. Unrepatriated back to the UK, here for good!

Angels are made out of Coffee Beans, Noodles, and Carbon.

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