mad city fan

Toms mother was born in America in the year 1928 they left America when she was 8 and lived over in Ireland when she was 28 she came to England and has lived here ever since on one question its asking about citizenship she as never held a british passport or applied for one how do we answer this one

Pollyana

Probably by posting in a forum about the UK rather than about Australia?

I'll move you

Elvira

If she has never bothered to obtain British citizenship I guess she would be a USC.

Though I haven't a clue what questions you are referring to...

mad city fan

We are filling in form 80 to apply for an Australian visa 136 maybe its the way I asked the question thats the reason ive been moved but if anyone here can help please yell

Elvira

What other help do you need? Looks straightforward to me.

mad city fan

she has never claimed british citizen ship and it asks when they became a citizen of this country

northernbird

I suggest she looks into it. I read about a case recently on the BBC website about an old lady who had lived in Scotland since she was a little girl and the authorities were looking to deport her back to the US because she didn't have UK citizenship.

Elvira

If she has not naturalised she is not a British citizen. You were saying that she is a USC.

Obviously it would be advisable to naturalise.

JAJ

She's a U.S. citizen.

As to her status in the United Kingdom:
- where was her father born?
- does she have Indefinite Leave to Remain stamped in her (American) passport?
- does she have any of her own parents or grandparents born in Ireland (was that the reason they went there, not many people moved to Ireland in the 1930s). Irish links may mean she's an Irish citizen, or eligible for citizenship, which makes the pathway to British citizenship much easier.

She ought not to even think about leaving the UK until her status is resolved.