Passport help - UK passport entitlement

taske said:
I'll get her to explore that avenue again, I don't really know what she asked and to who so I can't say. How does a US passport affect living/working in the UK?
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My wife is here on a spouse visa. She would be elegible for citizen ship next year, but were are going to live in the states instead.

I can,t believe that she wouldnt be elegible for a us or a uk passport though. They give uk passports away these days. Tell her to go to calais and come back on the back of a lorry, she'll have her passport in no time.... lol
 
I know very little about the said circumstance but it just sounds unreal that there is a real possibility that someone can't or isn't eligible to get a passport in some country .... A real eye opener....
 
Sorry I don't get it...

I wasn't born here, but have ILR and have lived here for over 15 years, and I can get a British passport if I want...(but I don't :p)
 
A2Z said:
Sorry I don't get it...

I wasn't born here, but have ILR and have lived here for over 15 years, and I can get a British passport if I want...(but I don't :p)
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Ok, my friend has lived here her whole life but seems to have been refused a passport. What process did you use to ascertain eligibility for a passport? Are your parents both UK residents with passports?
 
Tell her to prepare for this

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taske said:
Ok, my friend has lived here her whole life but seems to have been refused a passport. What process did you use to ascertain eligibility for a passport? Are your parents both UK residents with passports?
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The point is, your friend doesn't have 'indefinite leave to remain', presumably because she has never 'entered' the UK and therefore never had to apply for it - depending on what her mum's status was, on the information available I think she is either a 'stateless' person, or a British citizen.

A2Z, for whatever reason, has been granted ILR and so is a 'settled person' - so can commence the naturalisation process if he wants.

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This might be another route, possibly, but I'm not sure if the British father would count as a settled parent.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/britishcitizenship/applying/applicationtypes/bornintheuk/

Upon further reading, it appears no, same problem exists, it is all about the mother's status in the UK as far as I can see.
 
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Believe you got to be in the country for 5 years legally to be able to naturalise as a British citizen so as long as she can prove she's been here for the last 5 she's ok? Of course I'm speculating, best people to contact would be the passport office and not the CAB monkeys.
 
I assume she'd be eligible for ILR based on the long term residence route:

Requirements for indefinite leave to remain on the ground of long residence in the United Kingdom

276B. The requirements to be met by an applicant for indefinite leave to remain on the ground of long residence in the United Kingdom are that:

(i) (a) he has had at least 10 years continuous lawful residence in the United Kingdom; or

(b) he has had at least 14 years continuous residence in the United Kingdom, excluding any period spent in the United Kingdom following service of notice of liability to removal or notice of a decision to remove by way of directions under paragraphs 8 to 10A, or 12 to 14, of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971 or section 10 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Act, or of a notice of intention to deport him from the United Kingdom; and

(ii) having regard to the public interest there are no reasons why it would be undesirable for him to be given indefinite leave to remain on the ground of long residence, taking into account his:

(a) age; and

(b) strength of connections in the United Kingdom; and

(c) personal history, including character, conduct, associations and employment record; and

(d) domestic circumstances; and

(e) previous criminal record and the nature of any offence of which the person has been convicted; and

(f) compassionate circumstances; and

(g) any representations received on the person's behalf; and

(iii) the applicant has sufficient knowledge of the English language and sufficient knowledge about life in the United Kingdom, unless he is under the age of 18 or aged 65 or over at the time he makes his application.
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Though it seems absurd that she'd not be considered a british citizen after living here all her life.

This doens't really help with the more impending issue of actually having a passport. :)
 
I am in a very similar situation, although I could get a German passport. It's frustrating, but like your friend, to get a British Passport you'll need to get naturalised at a cost of about £900.
 
taske said:
Ok, my friend has lived here her whole life but seems to have been refused a passport. What process did you use to ascertain eligibility for a passport? Are your parents both UK residents with passports?
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As someone else has posted, I think its 10 years now, used to be 5 though, the length of time you had to live here to be eligible for a British passport.

Yep both live here but neither has British passport either.

No way am I paying £900 to get one...
 
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