Getting a British Passport
 

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the wrong forum, so if I am my apologies and feel free to move it as needed.

Anyhow, I was born in the US. My father is a US citizen. My mother is British. Can I get a British passport? I've heard conflicting information regarding this and was initially told I could only if my father was born in the UK, not my mother. Now I hear I can if I was born between 1963 and 1981.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks
Ian

Wow, this is complicated. On first reading, it would appear not, because pre-1983, you had to have a British father. However, later legislation (the Nationality Act, 1981) appears to have back-dated a change, so that if you were born between 1961 and 1983, you can apply for registration. This leaflet would seem to outline the circumstances

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind...izenship.html?

And if unsure, there is a contact address on the leaflet for more information.

I would like a British passport too.

Any suggestions? :)

yes how does that work? i looked into that but no dice. i then looked into getting a polish passport. my mom is first generation polock. (no jokes please) born in the US but from polish parents. any clues.

enviroian, YGPM.

This is a complicated subject. I have a big birthday coming up next year, and for my present I think I will be getting a British passport. I was born in the UK in 1956, but my parents were US citizens (stationed there in the Air Force). As I understand it, all persons born in the UK prior to 1983 have British citizenship:

People born in the United Kingdom before 1 January 1983

5. Anyone born in the United Kingdom before 1 January 1983 is a British citizen (unless born to certain people holding diplomatic or consular status).

So I think this grants me the right to that coveted EU passport, and I think that the US now allows dual citizenship, right?

Correct. If you were born in the U.K. before 1 January 1983 you automatically became a British Citizen unless your father was a foreign diplomat or one of your parents a consul.

Tsk, tsk, especially considering the oath people take to become US citizens requires them to give up such loyalties and even more amazingly requires them to give an oath to God.

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. In acknowledgement whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

I have the opposite, my father is British Citizen, and I'm US, and so is my mom.
Where can I find forms to apply? or do you have pointers

check out the Home Office link i gave above... there's a whole load of information on this area.

@:-)

Must schedule another trip soon... ;)

Check out the UK link below on dual citizenship.

http://www.britainusa.com/sections/a...=41001&a=25317

You can download the forms and instructions from http://www.britainusa.com passport section of this website.

I had no problem doing this for my US Born children, so now they have US and UK passports.

You and everyone else; I'd flip if I could attain dual nationality between the US and UK.

-Vincent

i got my US citizenship a few years ago. It was the first year that the US allowed dual citizenship and I was allowed to keep my UK passport.
I have not renewed it however, and travel on my US passport.

Nobody takes this seriously. The U.S. Government will never figure out what country's you are a citizen of anyway.

If either of your parents was born in Britain, you have a valid claim to British citizenship. The only potential problem is if you were born out of wedlock. If your mother and father were NOT married at the time of your birth, your claim to British citizenship is invalid. Having said that, your biological parents may marry today and your claim to British citizenship will once again be valid (no, I don't know why).

Why don't you complete an application for a British Passport at www.britainusa.com ? The Passport Office in Washington, D.C. will guide you regarding what documents to submit.

Good luck!