pblackman wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:22 pm
Hi bletchlypark. I've read the UKM guide. It seems that I meet the requirements. I've requested on GRO site new copies of both my mother and my grandfather birth certificates since the original ones didn't have a registration number. I received them this week. I also have their original (expired) UK passports. I still haven´t decided whether I will use an advisor or not. And there is also the problem of finding the two referees.
Here is the
Guide UKM link. Please describe which permutation of four required conditions you meet. For simplicity, they are:
1. Must be born before 1983:
True
2. Would have been a CUKC by descent if women could pass their citizenship the same way as men:
To be determined
3. You have right of abode at birth because of one of four listed conditions:
To be determined
4. Are of good moral character:
Assume true
For (2), the next page offers conditions:
2.a.1) Was your mother born, adopted, naturalized or registered in the UK ?
No
2.a.2) a British subject before 1949, and born within some form of British territory ?
No, Brazil wasn't British territory
2.b.1 you were born, or your mother was born, in a British protectorate, protected state, mandated territory or trust territory or in any foreign place in which British subjects came under British extraterritorial jurisdiction:
No
2.b.2) you were born in a non-Commonwealth country and your birth was registered, within one year of its occurrence, at a British consulate :
Depends - were you registered within one year of birth ?
2.b.3) your mother was in Crown service under the United Kingdom government at
the time of your birth:
Was she ?
2.b.4) you were born in Ceylon/Sri Lanka.
No
For 3:
* your mother was, at the time of your birth, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth, legal adoption, naturalisation or registration* in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands or Isle of Man:
No, she was registered in Brazil
* one of your mother’s parents (the definition of “parent” here excludes the father, but includes the mother, of an illegitimate child) was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth, legal adoption, naturalisation or registration* in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands or Isle of Man at the time of her birth, or
No, your maternal grandfather is Brazilian born
* one of your father’s parents (the definition of “father” and “parent” excludes the father of an illegitimate child) was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth, legal adoption, naturalisation or registration* in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands or Isle of Man at the time of his birth,
We don't know of father's side of family, but assume no
* you were resident in the United Kingdom for a continuous period of 5 years before1983 and had become settled in the United Kingdom by the end of that 5 year period, or
Were you ?
* you are a woman who, before 1 January 1983, was or had been married to a man with the right of abode in the United Kingdom:
No, you'd be 11 then
So it's clear that we can't answer you question for you. However, you can, by answering the above.
