Nationality question

My son was born in the UK in 2012. His mother is American, and according to all documentation I am Irish. He was registered as an American Citizen shortly after birth but afterwards we applied for a British and Irish passport. We got both without a problem, the British one being issued on the basis that his Birth Certificate showed his place of birth as England.
 
Scuzi said:
My son was born in the UK in 2012. His mother is American, and according to all documentation I am Irish. He was registered as an American Citizen shortly after birth but afterwards we applied for a British and Irish passport. We got both without a problem, the British one being issued on the basis that his Birth Certificate showed his place of birth as England.
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If he already has three passports/nationalities are you training him to be a spy?
 
Scuzi said:
My son was born in the UK in 2012. His mother is American, and according to all documentation I am Irish. He was registered as an American Citizen shortly after birth but afterwards we applied for a British and Irish passport. We got both without a problem, the British one being issued on the basis that his Birth Certificate showed his place of birth as England.
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Now your son will have the glory to fill out IRS yearly and pay American tax no matter where he lives, unless there are double-taxation treaty but still Uncle Sam wants you to declare your income every year.
 
Scuzi said:
My son was born in the UK in 2012. His mother is American, and according to all documentation I am Irish. He was registered as an American Citizen shortly after birth but afterwards we applied for a British and Irish passport. We got both without a problem, the British one being issued on the basis that his Birth Certificate showed his place of birth as England.
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Almost. It's important that your son was born in the UK and one of the parents were "legally settled" in the country at the time of birth (and that you can prove that was the case).
 
Mr Badger said:
If he already has three passports/nationalities are you training him to be a spy?
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Generally when nationality or passport rules change, those who have previously held a passport are grandfathered in. That was our reasoning.

areksnumbr1sxylady said:
Now your son will have the glory to fill out IRS yearly and pay American tax no matter where he lives, unless there are double-taxation treaty but still Uncle Sam wants you to declare your income every year.
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Pffft. They're not quite as strict as that. He will be resident in the US long before he is 18 anyway.


Burnsy2023 said:
Almost. It's important that your son was born in the UK and one of the parents were "legally settled" in the country at the time of birth (and that you can prove that was the case).
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I guess it will be the same for Rilot in that case?
 
IC3 said:
Slavic girls are all beautifully, the ugly ones are the remains of the German annexation.
The funny thing is, that a lot of british people say that we are taking their jobs, we only take benefits etc. But in real life it's totally opposite, we open up business here. My headteachers wife was Polish and she had this project going on witch was worth couple of milion pounds which gave a lot of jobs. We (yes I'm Polish :)) are often compared to muslims which come here with their big families not wanting to work and take all the benefits, but as I said before by latest statistics people with Polish nationality barley took 1/4 of what they brought. Polish people actually want to work, open up business, I don't see what's wrong in doing so?
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What a bizarre post. You seem to be moaning that people think that many Poles are coming here and are lazy and just settling for the benefits. You obviously think this is bad, yet at the very same time you are condemning a major religion and suggesting that muslims are doing exact thing.

Don't you think that you should practice what you preach and not slate an entire religion based on what can only be bigotry?
 
Phantom Shadow said:
dam you! I'm still Australian and it costs a fortune to become a British citizen.
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Not sure how it worked back then but both my parents were British and they lived in Australia for a couple of years due to my dad's work. As far as I am aware because they were not planning to stay they could choose my nationality. We came back to Northumberland before my first birthday and have been here ever since. I've no recollection of Australia at all but I still have friends that insist that I am an Aussie.
 
I'm Irish, from N.Ireland, Portuguese mother of my daughter and applying for an Irish passport for my daughter was easy as. Wouldn't it be similar?
 
Ahleckz said:
What a bizarre post. You seem to be moaning that people think that many Poles are coming here and are lazy and just settling for the benefits. You obviously think this is bad, yet at the very same time you are condemning a major religion and suggesting that muslims are doing exact thing.

Don't you think that you should practice what you preach and not slate an entire religion based on what can only be bigotry?
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Yeah, this. What a bizarre attitude for him to have, considering the fact that he's very much been subject to this sort of attitude from others as well.
 
Rilot said:
My son was born in the UK in 2013, his mother is Polish but I am British. We are unmarried but he has my surname.
We were just submitting a passport application and we hit a stumbling block.

The application asks for our date of marriage or to leave blank if unmarried. Here's the thing though, it also states that "If the child's claim to British citizenship relies on the father's nationality then the parents must be married".

My son has a UK birth certificate so does this mean he's automatically a British citizen and thus doesn't rely on my nationality to claim citizenship? The rule around this are confusing.
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If Born in the UK with a British birth certificate then he will automatically be British.

and nowadays I don't think you have to be married to pass on the British Citizenship.
 
He falls under the BNA act of 1972 in that if i remember correctly! it has been 10 years since i done that job. :confused:

If he is born to a uk resident no matter mother or father and either one has been resident in the uk for 5 years or more then he is a UK Citizen.

I could be miles out now as its been years since i was a passport officer, it will have changed or am wrong but it is something along those lines! ;)

So long as you prove birth in uk and you status to mother then there should be no problems! :D
 
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