PLEASE?! Help. Concerning dual citizenship U.S/U.K?

Question

I was born August 12, 1987. My father was born in Cuckfield, England on May 9, 1965. He came to America with my Grandma when he was three years old and he became a citizen of America in his teens. He married my Mom before I was born. His descendants have lived in England for as far back as I could trace. So as far I could tell he should be considered a british citizen, but Im not sure if he is. And is that all I require if I want to qualify for a U.K passport?

There are so many rules and guidelines concerning dual citizenship and I am really really confused how I would go about this, or if I even qualify for U.K citizenship/passport.

And if there is a specific form that I need to fill out if I do, or just fill out the same application that is at Britainusa.com

I also want to know if anybody has any idea how to "register with the British consule" because what my Dad has told me, but he's been too tired to guide me thru it cause he's been working so much

Answer 1

You are a US citizen and cannot qualify as a UK citizen because you were not born thereat and your parents already renounced their British citizenship that you are only assuming to be such.

Answer 2

From 1983

A child born outside the UK on or after 1 January 1983 will automatically acquire British citizenship by descent if either parent is a British citizen otherwise than by descent at the time of the birth.

Only one parent needs to be British otherwise than by descent - either the father or the mother.

An unmarried father cannot pass on British citizenship automatically in the case of children born before 1 July 2006. Although, if the parents marry subsequent to the birth, the child normally will become a British citizen at that point if legitimated by the marriage and the father was eligible to pass on British citizenship.

Failing the above, the child can be registered as British if it would have been British if parents were married and application is made before the child is 18.

Where the parent is a British citizen by descent additional requirements apply. In the most common scenario, the parent is normally expected to have lived in the UK for three years and apply for the child to be registered as a British citizen within 12 months of the birth.

Prior to 1983

Prior to 1983, as a general rule British nationality could only be transmitted from the father through one generation only, and parents were required to be married. See History of British nationality law.

# With effect from 30 April 2003, a person born outside the UK to a British mother may be entitled to register as a British citizen by descent if that person was born between 8 February 1961 and 31 December 1982. However those with permanent resident status in the UK, or entitled to Right of Abode, may instead prefer to seek naturalisation as a British citizen which gives transmissible British citizenship otherwise than by descent.#

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_citizens...

this link here is official from the UK

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/applyin...

and you may contact the UK embassy in the US

http://www.britainusa.com/

click on the left side for the consulate services, to find the nearest consulate in the state you live in ,

as far as i remember you should be allowed to get it

ps:

UK and US allowed dual citizenship, and by going to the US,does not mean you would have lost rights to obtain UK citizenship,

Answer 3

Ignore the answer from FRAGINAL-NOYPI, it is wrong.

Your father was a British Citizen at the time of his birth. He naturalized in the US: the US oath says you have to renounce your previous citizenship, but this IS NOT BINDING UNDER UK LAW, so he remains a Britsh Citizen UNLESS he went to the UK embassy to renounce his citizenship. If he has NOT renounced his British Citizenship officially to a UK official then he is still British.

Anyone born overseas to at least one parent who is British by birth or naturalization is automatically British (ie: you are British at the moment unless your father did renounce his citizenship officially).

You don't need to qualify, it seems to me that you have been British since birth.

You need to apply at the UK Consulate/Embassy for a British passport. You will need your own birth certificate, as well as proof that your father was a British citizen when you were born. This can be your fathers original birth certificate or his UK passport that was valid when you were born. You can register your presence with the embassy, but this is not required (it is only really used so that they know where British Citizens are in an emergency).

Hope thats helpful, if you want anymore info just message me.