Hello UK people Can you help me?

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sassysharli

I would check into this a bit deeper. My mother was born in Scotland and moved here and had me. I looked into getting my British citizenship and was actually irritated to find out that if I had been born after 1982 I would automatically be guaranteed citizenship but I was born in 80 and my sister born in 81 so we have to apply for citizenship. It will cost me 150 pounds which basically turns out to be $300.00. I havent gotten around to doingt it yet. I think you need to dig a bit deeper, you may be able to purchase one like I am going to do. Contact the British Embassy, they actually sent me all the forms and everything.

As far as this jerk Teabag- you are just rude. As the first American citizen in my family, I am a very proud American. Having my mother be born and raised in Scotland and my ancestors and relatives still being British and living in Scotland and England, I am proud of that as well. The United States is my home and Britain is my second home. Living here and spending big parts of my summers there off and on my entire life, its a second home. If I lived in Michigan and summered in California and that was my 2nd home- thats okay because its the same country? No. Dont be so narrow minded and rude!

irene s

this is typical of the way women are viewed all over the world.second class citizens with not as many rights as men.things are changing but much too slowly.if men were treated as badly the change would be faster.in my eyes every law abiding citizen should be equal regardless of gender,colour,wealth or religion.would it help to seek legal advice about taking it to the court of human rights.

big_red_octopus

It is certainly unfair.

I bet it's a leftover law from years ago that they haven't even thought to review!

Perhaps you could try to write to no. 10 and see what they say.

johnnyhawkyns

You are correct. It is strange in a country that prides itself in equal rights. The other thing is that a person cannot claim even through the father if the parents are not married ( I'm talking about people born outside of the UK) My mother in law has her birth certificate with both British born parents on it and they will not give her citizenship as she was born in Durban South Africa.
The other thing is, cannot claim through your grandparent, I tried that.
See: www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk

You can however get an ancestral visa through your mother or grandparents. This allows you to live and work in the UK for four years when you will get an indefinite stay visa and after a year you qualify for citizenship.
You don't say that you want to come here and if you don't this won't help much but if you do, you qualify for an ancestral visa.
No Problem

spaghetti_and_cheese

very unfair, very sexist and very old-fashioned. How unusual.

Wiz

sounds sexist to me

trucker

you should be entitled to belong to both countries, i am patriotic for america as for britain because of all the british descendants that are out there, Just because a britain emigrates to america years ago, they dont drain his blood when he gets there, and put special american blood in him,Your blood line comes from britain as far as i am conscerned you are a cousin, like the pensilvania miners used to call britains cousin jacks, thats about right. best of luck

cdrotherham

If that is still the law that applies to you, and I don't know how long ago you checked last, then it is overridden by Human Rights legislation and would be dropped if challenged. One EU grandparent is enough to get right of residence, anyway.

AlisonJonshon

Bizzare. You will be a citizenship of the country where you were born, thats what usually happens. My mom is a dutch-japanese, my dad is a chinese-japanese, im holding japanese passport cos i was born there. If i was born in holland, ill hold Europe passport. In China, ill hold China passport.
Doesnt matter that much, you were born there, you should love your countries. you can go to UK easily too.
PS. My family settle down in the US now, few of my friends lives in London. Been to both places already, both are lovely places to lives with
Cheers

wei_bei_li

well no one said life was fair did they?

jbland1@btinternet.com

Well the short answer is no we can't help, it seems like a phalocentric policy to me, if the regulations are as you describe, but life is littered with the remains of patriarchal policies and they remain so far down the list of political interest that they are unlikely to be changed.

teabag 1968

the usa is your home.you should be patriotic to the country you were born in no matter what country your parents were born .i also thinkthe same should apply to your uncles children.if my children were born in the usa i would be proud for them to be citizens of there .as the saying goes when in rome do as the romans do.

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