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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 29th 2025, 1:54 am

Replies: 5

Citizenship application (maternal grandparents)

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Posted By WarrenZA

Re: Citizenship application (maternal grandparents)

Thank you for the helpful replies BritInParis and Rexy2003. I suspected as much, but thought it was worth asking, and appreciate the advice.

His daughter and their family live in Maidstone, and...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 3rd 2025, 9:20 pm

Replies: 5

Citizenship application (maternal grandparents)

Views: 1,714

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: Citizenship application (maternal grandparents)

Thank you, Tate. Helpful.

I was hoping that it might make a difference that it is his maternal grandparents and his paternal grandmother but not his grandfather. Not sure if that might make a...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jun 30th 2025, 9:00 pm

Replies: 5

Citizenship application (maternal grandparents)

Views: 1,714

Posted By WarrenZA

Citizenship application (maternal grandparents)

Hello all,
I'm hoping for some advice regarding a potential application for British citizenship on behalf of a close friend whoâ€™s asked me to do some preliminary digging. I do have a hunch that...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jun 11th 2023, 9:29 pm

Replies: 502

British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Views: 170,312

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Hi again, I thought I'd post an update. Had the good news in an email on Friday that my application was successful!
I'll post an update once I hear back about citizenship ceremony etc., in the...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Apr 14th 2023, 12:24 am

Replies: 502

British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Views: 170,312

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

jmin , thanks for your detailed replies and being willing to help so freely! I'm sure you'd be out of the starting blocks right away if you offered your advice professionally.

There's plenty of...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Apr 3rd 2023, 4:29 am

Replies: 502

British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Views: 170,312

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Hey @Jmin, thank you! I'll take some time to work through your replies carefully.

Taking a stab at a layman's explanation...I'm guessing that my grandfather become a CUKC at his birth in East...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 31st 2023, 12:47 am

Replies: 502

British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Views: 170,312

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

His paternal grandfather born in India in 1889 and grandmother in India (but I'm not sure, and there's a small chance that she was born in Jinja, Uganda).
His maternal grandfather in 1897 and...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 30th 2023, 11:28 pm

Replies: 502

British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Views: 170,312

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Hi jmin , thanks for your generosity in taking time to help us all navigate this!

As far as I can tell, my mother became a British citizen by descent automatically when BNA 1981 came into force...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 29th 2023, 12:51 am

Replies: 502

British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Views: 170,312

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Thanks for the reply, jmin !
I should have mentioned that my application was based on BNA 1981 (Section 9)â€”my mother British by descent, maternal grandfather born in the UK, and my birth in SA in...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 23rd 2023, 7:34 pm

Replies: 502

British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Views: 170,312

Posted By WarrenZA

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Hi from Cape Town,
Thanks to everyone for the hugely valuable contributions to this threadâ€”especially jmin and BritInParis, and for setting out the arguments and details from the acts so clearly!...

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