Englishtart

Yep, 1988. Can she not get it now?

It used to be like that, I actually thought it still was when our Son was born there, maybe it's different if they are born in a US military hospital on what is considered Us soil? We have never had anything official from Germany looking for him

Mallory beat me too it

Mallory

Yes, she does now many years later, for a price. For a child with a British father $0. For a child born to a British Mother (before 1983) approximately $850.00. But obviously having gone through that debacle she considers herself to be an American, even though she has dual citizenship.

Englishtart

Wow! that doesn't sound right does it, why should it be different depending on which parent has UK citizenship?

My youngest Son (actually born in the UK) thinks of himself as American too, kids are wierd huh!!

Mallory

Apparently, it was because the male carries on the family's surname!

lisa67

My daughter, who was 3 when we moved here 10 years ago often comes out with "oh you and your cute english ways"!!!! and when we were in the UK last and she had to climb some stairs in a pub she said "what is with you europeans and your stairs" <sigh>....yep, definitely more US than UK!

Octang Frye

Of course, taking over the UK and subjugating the people would be pretty easy.

The populace has become so enfeebled, emasculated, infantilized and dependent, we could probably take over the whole country with a couple of hundred hunters.

All we'd have to do is show them a picture of a gun or a knife and they'd wet themselves in a government-engendered Pavlovian response, collapsing into paroxysms of terror.

Mummy in the foothills

All my brood were born here and are dual, both parents UKC born and raised and now duals too.
I still consider myself a Brit, not an American. I guess I'll be in the "camp" with the rest of the Brits with doubts.
The older boys (16 and 21) both say they are as at home in UK as here both plan on moving "home" (as they call it) the older one may be gone this summer
The little one (age 5) says "I'm 'merican" and is very indignant about it. But she says she's special because she has two counties and we speak English I still can't figure that one out.

Octang Frye

Hmm. Invading the UK. It's not a bad idea. And not without precedent.

One-person invasion attempt

In August 1990 an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Gardes attempted a singlehanded invasion of Sark, armed with a semi-automatic weapon. The night Gardes arrived he put up signs declaring his intention to take over the island the following day at noon. He was arrested while sitting on a bench, changing the gun's magazine and waiting for noon to arrive, by the island's volunteer Constable.

I just won't put up signs.

elfman

Does that only apply to children born before 1983? I was looking at the forms to get my kids (both under 5) British citizenship last weekend, and if I'm correctly reading the form I downloaded when looking for the cost of registration made no distinction between applications based on the nationality of the father or the mother (or on the year of birth):

Citizenship for an adult £550
Citizenship for child under 18 £470

The first page of the form does say that this is for applications made in the UK and that applications made abroad may have different fees, but the UKinUSA consular website suggests that the only difference in applying from the USA is that a courier cost needs to be added.

chrisfromusa

You can probably achieve the same effect along the I-5 corridor

elfman

But did the constable manage not to wet himself when he saw a real gun (not just a picture)?

Octang Frye

Well, the thing is, Sark is a part of the UK, but it isn't. Kind of like wave particle duality.

The people there are still Old School Brits. You know, self-sufficient. Tough. Resilient. Tweedy.

And remember, this was in 1990. Before the social justice/progressive social engineering kicked into overdrive.

elfman

does beg another question: if British people are uniformly prone to involuntary bowel evacuation at the sight of a mere picture of a gun/knife, then who's responsible for all the multiple stabbings and shootings that certain tabloids inform us that UK residents must endure on a daily basis?

Oh wait, is it all them immergrants?

Octang Frye

No, it's feral kids. Teens. Twenties. Morons. Roving bands. Thousands of them. Tens of thousands.

Here's a feral thug at work...

Leslie

Are you sitting in a puddle?