Baby - dual citizenship
Dec 4th 2006, 10:19 am
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Baby - dual citizenship
Hi
Louise and I are here on a 4 year business visa but are now applying for permanent residency on a subclass 136 visa. Louise is also 16 weeks pregnant and we were wondering whehter, if the visa were to come through in time, we could apply for dual citizenship for the baby. Does anyone have any experience of this? How does it work? Do we have to have PR status when the baby is born or is it when we register the baby? Any help/advice would be gratefully received.
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Matt
Louise and I are here on a 4 year business visa but are now applying for permanent residency on a subclass 136 visa. Louise is also 16 weeks pregnant and we were wondering whehter, if the visa were to come through in time, we could apply for dual citizenship for the baby. Does anyone have any experience of this? How does it work? Do we have to have PR status when the baby is born or is it when we register the baby? Any help/advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks
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Dec 4th 2006, 10:23 am
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Re: Baby - dual citizenship
Originally Posted by Matt Sabin
Hi
Louise and I are here on a 4 year business visa but are now applying for permanent residency on a subclass 136 visa. Louise is also 16 weeks pregnant and we were wondering whehter, if the visa were to come through in time, we could apply for dual citizenship for the baby. Does anyone have any experience of this? How does it work? Do we have to have PR status when the baby is born or is it when we register the baby? Any help/advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Matt
Louise and I are here on a 4 year business visa but are now applying for permanent residency on a subclass 136 visa. Louise is also 16 weeks pregnant and we were wondering whehter, if the visa were to come through in time, we could apply for dual citizenship for the baby. Does anyone have any experience of this? How does it work? Do we have to have PR status when the baby is born or is it when we register the baby? Any help/advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Matt
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Dec 4th 2006, 10:25 am
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Cool. Thanks - that's what we thought. Better get the application in this week then. The baby's due in mid May so fingers crossed.
Originally Posted by JackTheLad
At least one of the parents needs to be PR before the baby is born.
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Dec 4th 2006, 10:26 am
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Re: Baby - dual citizenship
Originally Posted by Matt Sabin
Hi
Louise and I are here on a 4 year business visa but are now applying for permanent residency on a subclass 136 visa. Louise is also 16 weeks pregnant and we were wondering whehter, if the visa were to come through in time, we could apply for dual citizenship for the baby. Does anyone have any experience of this? How does it work? Do we have to have PR status when the baby is born or is it when we register the baby? Any help/advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Matt
Louise and I are here on a 4 year business visa but are now applying for permanent residency on a subclass 136 visa. Louise is also 16 weeks pregnant and we were wondering whehter, if the visa were to come through in time, we could apply for dual citizenship for the baby. Does anyone have any experience of this? How does it work? Do we have to have PR status when the baby is born or is it when we register the baby? Any help/advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Matt
Congratulations
Your baby would be an Australian citizen if you have PR when he/she is born but you would probably need x-rays as part of the 136 application, so your wife being pregnant could hold up the application anyway.
Therefore you'd more than likely have to add the baby to your PR application once he/she is born then he/she would be granted citizenship when you get it.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong
Dec 4th 2006, 10:29 am
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Re: Baby - dual citizenship
Thanks Wendy
That's really helpful to know. As you say, maybe we're better waiting to apply once this baby is born and then just putting the baby on the application.
Hmmmm....
That's really helpful to know. As you say, maybe we're better waiting to apply once this baby is born and then just putting the baby on the application.
Hmmmm....
Originally Posted by Wendy
Congratulations
Your baby would be an Australian citizen if you have PR when he/she is born but you would probably need x-rays as part of the 136 application, so your wife being pregnant could hold up the application anyway.
Therefore you'd more than likely have to add the baby to your PR application once he/she is born then he/she would be granted citizenship when you get it.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong
Your baby would be an Australian citizen if you have PR when he/she is born but you would probably need x-rays as part of the 136 application, so your wife being pregnant could hold up the application anyway.
Therefore you'd more than likely have to add the baby to your PR application once he/she is born then he/she would be granted citizenship when you get it.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong
Dec 4th 2006, 10:32 am
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Re: Baby - dual citizenship
Originally Posted by Matt Sabin
Thanks Wendy
That's really helpful to know. As you say, maybe we're better waiting to apply once this baby is born and then just putting the baby on the application.
Hmmmm....
That's really helpful to know. As you say, maybe we're better waiting to apply once this baby is born and then just putting the baby on the application.
Hmmmm....
You can put in an application now, and if the CO needs meds before the baby is born they will just put everything on hold until the baby has been born. It would save you a bit of time that way.
Dec 4th 2006, 10:35 am
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Re: Baby - dual citizenship
Originally Posted by Wendy
You can put in an application now, and if the CO needs meds before the baby is born they will just put everything on hold until the baby has been born. It would save you a bit of time that way.
Dec 4th 2006, 10:41 am
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Nice - thanks.
I think I'd been thinking that it would be nice for the baby to have instant dual citizenship but then if we go along that road to citizenship then the baby will obviously come with us. So, I don't suppose it makes much odds really. I'll get the application in and put it on hold if need be. We did have medicals and X-rays in the UK before we left (approx Oct 2005) but I suppose we'd need fresh ones for a 136..(?)
Thanks again
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I think I'd been thinking that it would be nice for the baby to have instant dual citizenship but then if we go along that road to citizenship then the baby will obviously come with us. So, I don't suppose it makes much odds really. I'll get the application in and put it on hold if need be. We did have medicals and X-rays in the UK before we left (approx Oct 2005) but I suppose we'd need fresh ones for a 136..(?)
Thanks again
Matt
Originally Posted by busterboy
This is exactly what we did. We applied for PR and then found out about pregnancy....filled in a 1022 change of circumstances form which alerted the CO to the need to delay medicals....baby born...another 1022...medicals and then three lovely visas for our larger family!
Dec 4th 2006, 10:42 am
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Re: Baby - dual citizenship
Originally Posted by Matt Sabin
Nice - thanks.
I think I'd been thinking that it would be nice for the baby to have instant dual citizenship but then if we go along that road to citizenship then the baby will obviously come with us. So, I don't suppose it makes much odds really. I'll get the application in and put it on hold if need be. We did have medicals and X-rays in the UK before we left (approx Oct 2005) but I suppose we'd need fresh ones for a 136..(?)
Thanks again
Matt
I think I'd been thinking that it would be nice for the baby to have instant dual citizenship but then if we go along that road to citizenship then the baby will obviously come with us. So, I don't suppose it makes much odds really. I'll get the application in and put it on hold if need be. We did have medicals and X-rays in the UK before we left (approx Oct 2005) but I suppose we'd need fresh ones for a 136..(?)
Thanks again
Matt
They only last a year, so you'd need to do them again anyway
Dec 4th 2006, 10:44 am
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That's what I thought - thanks.
Originally Posted by Wendy
They only last a year, so you'd need to do them again anyway
Dec 4th 2006, 10:46 am
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Re: Baby - dual citizenship
Originally Posted by Matt Sabin
That's what I thought - thanks.
Dec 4th 2006, 10:47 am
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No worries
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Like your blog...you all look very nice (dang, sound like a weird stalker again)!
