MagaliPiendel
author of Purple E 5280, sci-fi novel -coming soon
- Location
- Lancashire
Hi,
My 3 children were born in England in 1995, 98 and 2000. Their father is British and I'm French. In autumn 2015 my eldest applied for a British passport. The Liverpool branch have been very awkward with her and refused to issue her passport. They asked me to get very old and archived documents from the HMRC which took months to come and eventually, despite giving her extra time, as soon as they received those documents, they simply said that the file was closed. I insisted but they replied with a long quote of law articles to "prove" to me that I was wasting their time since my daughter "was NOT British".
See what I mean. My kids were all born in the UK from a British Dad, speak English as their first language, have attended schools and all since early childhood, lived all their lives here but are treated like outsiders. Now with Brexit looming I fear for them. My son got his French passport recently from the French consulate in London, where they told him he HAS dual nationality anyway. (?) Before he got into apprenticeship, he was getting Universal Credit (which he wouldn't be entitled to if not British).
So are my children British as well as French?
Do they need to apply for Citizenship or is it simply granted to them?
And if they can have dual nationality, can my daughter get her money back which the Liverpool passport office took from her in end 2015? (I'm in a good mind to sue them personally)
Thanks a lot if you can help us with those mind-boggling mazes of law.
My 3 children were born in England in 1995, 98 and 2000. Their father is British and I'm French. In autumn 2015 my eldest applied for a British passport. The Liverpool branch have been very awkward with her and refused to issue her passport. They asked me to get very old and archived documents from the HMRC which took months to come and eventually, despite giving her extra time, as soon as they received those documents, they simply said that the file was closed. I insisted but they replied with a long quote of law articles to "prove" to me that I was wasting their time since my daughter "was NOT British".
See what I mean. My kids were all born in the UK from a British Dad, speak English as their first language, have attended schools and all since early childhood, lived all their lives here but are treated like outsiders. Now with Brexit looming I fear for them. My son got his French passport recently from the French consulate in London, where they told him he HAS dual nationality anyway. (?) Before he got into apprenticeship, he was getting Universal Credit (which he wouldn't be entitled to if not British).
So are my children British as well as French?
Do they need to apply for Citizenship or is it simply granted to them?
And if they can have dual nationality, can my daughter get her money back which the Liverpool passport office took from her in end 2015? (I'm in a good mind to sue them personally)
Thanks a lot if you can help us with those mind-boggling mazes of law.
I have now used the Enquiry link simply to ask those questions.