Sorry to dig up this old thread but I thought better than starting a new one.
Here is my dilemma. At the moment I have Right of abode in the UK, but I was told by the British High commission in Australia that I would be entitled to a register for a british passport. My mother was born in Britain and so is British by birth *but* she never had a british passport according to the BNA 1948 she would automatically be a citizen by birth. The application for registration requires;
Your mother's full birth certificate; and either
Her certificate of naturalisation or registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or, before 1 January 1949, as a British subject); or
Papers showing her legal adoption; or
Her expired citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies passport.
I have her birth certificate, but she never received a passport or if she did she was way to young to remember and now travels on an Australian passport anyway.
Wouldn't the birth certificate be enough to prover her citizenship given that her only requirement was to be born in the UK, and as she has never formally renounced her citizenship she should still be a citizen?