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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
May 14th 2026, 12:43 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

I sent my UK grandfather’s birth registration. My maternal grandparents US marriage record. My mom’s US birth certificate. My (1985) US birth certificate and my US marriage certificate, because...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
May 14th 2026, 12:26 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

I got my acceptance email this morning!

Feb 9 26 (roughly lol) I sent my application
March 16 26 I got the email asking for full payment
March 25 26 I got the email to schedule biometrics
April...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 23rd 2026, 3:42 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

I’m not arguing it should be free, I’m pointing out that the fee is many times higher than inflation-adjusted cost and is explicitly set above cost by policy. That’s not just paying for work...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 17th 2026, 1:20 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

well that’s lame 😂. Gotta love governmental bureaucracy.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 17th 2026, 1:06 am
Replies: 21
Views: 4,959
Posted By CatFancy

Re: Section 4L children

That’s what I thought, but I’m always looking for a more informed opinion lol. Thanks!
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 16th 2026, 10:08 am
Replies: 21
Views: 4,959
Posted By CatFancy

Re: Section 4L children

i have a quick question about this.

My husband has a Canadian ancestor and we recently sent in his application for citizenship. We’d go through Canada to get an Ancestry visa for our adult...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 16th 2026, 12:53 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

I got an email today from the Home Office asking for full payment. I did send in the payment slip for the £130 but they never took it, and said they’d received £0, which is odd IMO.

oh well...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 11th 2026, 2:13 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

2 more questions.

Do the referee signatures have to be a wet signature? Or will a scanned copy do? I don't know anyone "professional" where i currently live, and we've only been here just over 3...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 11th 2026, 12:50 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

OK. for real this time. i figured out where i went wrong, copied a claim and didn't read it well enough, or anemia brain just didn't compute. either way, it was wrong. So sorry!
...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 11th 2026, 12:39 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

it's the entirely wrong claim. i copied it from a different post and didn't adequately fact check it. ive deleted it since it was A: wrong, and B: confusing.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 11th 2026, 12:12 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

i'm not sure. i just know that i was told this earlier in this thread, and others have been successful with a similar scenario.



eta- i believe it's something to do with the transition period....
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 11th 2026, 11:49 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

you're right! i genuinely don't know what got crossed where. and this is why i asked lmao. my mom is already a UK citizen. I'm applying for myself, because my mom was a woman she wasn't able to...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 24th 2026, 2:11 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Thanks! You just answered my question from my other post.

gotta have my ceremony before kids turn 18.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 24th 2026, 2:07 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 798
Posted By CatFancy

Re: Path of citizenship for my mom, and me.

cool beans.

one last question… in the unlikely event that we somehow get word that my application was accepted before my 17yo turns 18. Would we be able to register her even after she is 18? ...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 24th 2026, 12:06 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 798
Posted By CatFancy

Re: Path of citizenship for my mom, and me.

Thanks! I don’t know exactly when they got divorced, but it was after my mom was born.

since my application is through my mom, my parents not being married when I was born doesn’t matter,...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 24th 2026, 7:33 am
Replies: 9
Views: 798
Posted By CatFancy

Path of citizenship for my mom, and me.

Hello,

I don't believe my mom has to do anything more than apply for her british passport, but i just want to be sure.

Her: US born in 1963
Her mom: US born, US parents
Her dad: UK born in...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 24th 2026, 7:16 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Almost a full year later, i'm back at this lol!

At this time, my kids are 23, 20, 19, 17 (18 in march) and 5.

I finally sent off for the copies of my mother's birth certificate as well as her...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 5th 2025, 7:24 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

I know :(. If worse comes to worse, the kids and I would leave, husband would stay until he retires next year, sell stuff as he can.

having citizenship would just be one thing I wouldn’t have...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 5th 2025, 6:14 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

contingency plan…. Things are getting worrisome in the US for people of our type.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 4th 2025, 11:33 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

ok do answered my own question. It’s the 1480… but why is it basically a penalty when it’d been so much cheaper if we’d have been able to be registered within a year of our birth.

I just...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 4th 2025, 4:58 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

thank you again! Now to get all my documents together.

eta- 4L isn’t listed in the fee schedule… is it the £1480 regular resignation fee? Or the ceremony only fee?

I feel like it’s the...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 3rd 2025, 12:55 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,250
Posted By CatFancy

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

thank you!

would my grandfather have registered my mother’s birth if she had been a boy? I’ll be honest in that I have no idea how that works lol.

or would my mother have to have...
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