Get A Uk Passport Asap

[hgvneil]

I would strongly advise any parents of half uk children to get them a UK passport.If maybe they have been born in thai and never been to mother/fathers home country,go back and do it.The law in UK is changing so fast in regards to immigration that its getting harder to obtain passports and new laws coming in ever year.

Reasons include massive level of immigration to uk from east europe etc and high levels of illigal immigration / fraudulant passports being made,i belive the amount of people claiming asylum has dropped recently,but,it has had a knock on effect.The goverment have openly stated they have no idea how many illegal immigrants there are in the UK and also totally mis estimated the amount of economic migrants coming from eastern europe ( by over ten times ! ).

Maybe you think,well im english,so my son/daughter can get a passport easy,well maybe at the moment but as i said things are changing.Latest law, apart from the massive price rise of the UK biometric passport,is that all first time applicants must attend an interview.

My two kids 2 and 3 have UK and thai passports,which hopefully can not be taken away once they have them.My wife on the other hand although we have been married 4 years and my wife can work and pay tax in UK with british born children cannot get a UK passport.Until her reading and writing is good enought to pass the ridiculous citizenship test (another recent law) which 90 % of british people would fail when stopped on street and asked the questions.

[GuestHouse]

Don't Panic! .. Don't Panic!

And don't confuse 'excuses' with 'reasons'.

This is an excuse....

Reasons include massive level of immigration to uk from east europe etc and high levels of illigal immigration / fraudulant passports being made,i belive the amount of people claiming asylum has dropped recently,but,it has had a knock on effect.The goverment have openly stated they have no idea how many illegal immigrants there are in the UK and also totally mis estimated the amount of economic migrants coming from eastern europe ( by over ten times ! ).

The reason why the goverment are happy to go along with all this doom and gllom about uncontrolled immigration is because it helps their case for ID Cards. The reason the governement want ID Cards is so that the exchequer can Identify you, track you, monitor you and tax you (the control bit will be by others).

My wife on the other hand although we have been married 4 years and my wife can work and pay tax in UK with british born children cannot get a UK passport.Until her reading and writing is good enought to pass the ridiculous citizenship test (another recent law) which 90 % of british people would fail when stopped on street and asked the questions.

You can't have it both ways.. Control immigration or don't.

And now for the less startling truth.

If you are legally born in Britain, your children will be British. For lots of practical and legal reasons that is never going to change.

Don't Panic! .. Don't Panic!

[the scouser]

Also, you're confusing immigration and nationality.

There's no one crying out that the UK is being swamped by hordes of British citizens, and, if anything, with the facility for unmarried fathers to now transmit their British citizenship, the nationality laws have been slackened.

Scouse.

[endure]

"The goverment have openly stated they have no idea how many illegal immigrants there are in the UK "

I always find it surprising that people are surprised by this. If they're illegal immigrants, by definition, the government doesn't know who they are. Why should the government know how many of them there are?

[boogie]

I don't really understand why parents of Thai/UK children would not want them to get a UK passport in the first place. My kids have both, but we got the UK one first so that we could travel easily.

[Neeranam]

I don't really understand why parents of Thai/UK children would not want them to get a UK passport in the first place. My kids have both, but we got the UK one first so that we could travel easily.

I got my elder daughter a Thai and UK passport. We went to the UK twice with her so necessary. My youngest daughter hasn't got one as I can't afford it and we're not going out the country in the foreseeable future.

It'll be no problem getting her one later, will it?

[the scouser]

It'll be no problem getting her one later, will it?

If her entitlement is by automatic aquisition, your daughter will be able to get a British passport at any time.

Scouse.

[Neeranam]

It'll be no problem getting her one later, will it?

If her entitlement is by automatic aquisition, your daughter will be able to get a British passport at any time.

Scouse.

Could you explain that please Scouse.

Do you mean automatic as I am British?

Should I register her birth at the British Embassy quickly?

[the scouser]

I.e. you are British otherwise than by descent. Basically, if your first child benefited from automatic acquisition, so will your second.

You are under no obligation to register your daughter's birth with the British embassy, but doing so does have the advantage of her being issued with a Britsh-style birth certificate. If you choose not to register the birth, providing you fulfil the other rules, your child will retain an entitlement to British citizenship throughout her life.

Scouse.