british passport for a EEA child born in the uk
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:00 pm
Hi everyone, I am about to apply for a UK passport for our daughter via the Post Office.
Our daughter was born in 2012 and my wife and I are both Czech Republic nationals, living and working in UK since 2004. We are both holders of the WRS registration and have been working continuously ever since our arrival in the UK. We can prove our work history in UK by the P45/60s and various other documents, however we never applied for the Permanent Residence card as we assumed it being unnecessary.
My question is this. I am aware of the fact that if a person applies for the UK citizenship the normal way, i.e registration & naturalisation proceedings, etc, they can be automatically refused / disqualified if they were in receipt of certain benefits such as the Job Seeker Allowance and/or the Housing Benefit for five years prior to the application date. Now, we did not claim or receive those above, however we did apply and receive the Working Tax Credits for several consecutive years, including some of those five years before today's date. Can that potentially disqualify our daughter from being able to receive a UK passport?
Also my daughter is already a Czech national / passport holder since shortly after she was born. Could that be an obstacle?
And lastly, In the Section 8 of the passport application form they seem to ask for details of grandparents if we (parents) aren't UK nationals or were born after 31/12/1982 (which I was). Is that an absolute necessity, assuming that our parents are Czech nationals that only ever visited UK on few occasions?
Thanks!
Our daughter was born in 2012 and my wife and I are both Czech Republic nationals, living and working in UK since 2004. We are both holders of the WRS registration and have been working continuously ever since our arrival in the UK. We can prove our work history in UK by the P45/60s and various other documents, however we never applied for the Permanent Residence card as we assumed it being unnecessary.
My question is this. I am aware of the fact that if a person applies for the UK citizenship the normal way, i.e registration & naturalisation proceedings, etc, they can be automatically refused / disqualified if they were in receipt of certain benefits such as the Job Seeker Allowance and/or the Housing Benefit for five years prior to the application date. Now, we did not claim or receive those above, however we did apply and receive the Working Tax Credits for several consecutive years, including some of those five years before today's date. Can that potentially disqualify our daughter from being able to receive a UK passport?
Also my daughter is already a Czech national / passport holder since shortly after she was born. Could that be an obstacle?
And lastly, In the Section 8 of the passport application form they seem to ask for details of grandparents if we (parents) aren't UK nationals or were born after 31/12/1982 (which I was). Is that an absolute necessity, assuming that our parents are Czech nationals that only ever visited UK on few occasions?
Thanks!
