Rete

That's great if you are flush. However, this year far too many are living skint due to the economy.

mmhendrie

thanks to everyone again - sounds like my best bet will be to apply at the embassy for the birth registration, which will hopefully affirm my sons status as a Brit.

Just need to wait another couple of weeks for his birth certificate, and then I'll give it a shot!

thx,
Matt

mmhendrie

ok so i was able to get my son's birth certificate today, and will now begin the birth registration application!!!

One bump in the road is actually my wife's birth cert. - it turns out we don't have an original of her birth certificate, and her original is sealed. However, I'm reading the application, my wife is a USC and therefore my son isn't get Brit from her - (3) on page one of the app indicates we don't need an original of her birth cert. (just mine) - she's ok with a photocopy of the cert or a photocopy of the passport - am I reading that correctly??:

http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/resources/...reg-app-23-feb

thanks,
Matt

ldyinlv

He is British..his parents where on an RAF base, if they had not been he would have been born in UK. His son is British also in that case.

Bob

not necessarily, depends on the year, being on base doesn't always mean much on its own.

athlonfx

this is very funny, how do other people know whether your son a Brit or not?

mmhendrie

well...there are some folks here who have a good grasp over what qualifies people as being British, vs. British by decent - the point being if I'm British, my son is also British at birth, if I'm British by decent, my son could be eligible to be British, but not necessarily British at birth.

kins

I'm curious about this. I've always assumed I am British by birth rather than by descent. My birth certificate says place of birth is Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, and gives my father's RAF rank, and I've always just assumed that this is equal to being born in the UK.

kins

BTW was your dad in 203 Squadron? He would've worked with my stepdad if so - we were out there in 1976.

mmhendrie

nope - 13 squadron - what did your dad do, there's still a chance they know each other? which Naval hospital was it?

ldyinlv

OK...British by desent has always to me meant..Hipathetically an Indian comes to England and becomes a citizen.. then their child is british by desent..
If you parents are Britisah born and you where born on a british military base..you are BRITISH...period!!!!

md95065

Well, in that case you clearly don't understand what "British by descent" actually means ...

Ozzidoc

Agree.

Manc

British by descent mean.

I born and raised in England.
move to the USA.
I have a kid.
the kid has never lived in britain, ever.
the kid is British through descent of the fact that I am a British Citizen by birth.

kins

The Naval Hospital in Mtarfa. My stepdad was a pilot with 203 Squadron flying Nimrods at RAF Luqa. It was a fabulous place to grow up.

Interested to know how you get on with the UK passport for your son. Good luck...