Hi everyone, thanks for your help. Just an update in case it helps someone else. I sent in the application form for a new adult passport without the form NS, on the 24th of December and included my mother's birth certificate, my birth certificate and my US passport. I did note on the application for...

Application Timeline Passport for: Adult Application Type: New Method of application:Postal Date of application: 24 December Date application received by IPS: 28 December 12 Date of return of documents: 7 January 13 Date of receipt of interview letter: 4 January 13 Date of Passport Appointment: 7 Ja...

I know few other cases where people moved from England to India soon after independence/early 50s - never had any British passport - subsequently never travelled outside india but were unknowingly british thoughout. Their children later received BC as they were born to british parents (based on the...

Many thanks for your help. On the guidelines for the Confirmation of British nationality status, it says: "If the evidence is in the form of your, and a parent’s birth certificate you should consider applying for a British passport. Only if you do not have documentation acceptable to the passport au...

Thanks for the help. I don't think she ever had a British passport, I believe she was included on her mother's when they left the UK. I think both her parents were Indian at that time - sorry, I meant she later got an Indian passport when she was 17. This is so complicated! What is the consequence i...

I believe she moved to India with her parents in 1954 or 1955?

Thank you for the advice, I was just unsure because they don't ask for any proof of this on the application for a new adult passport.

Lucapooka wrote:Surely she would have renounced her British citizenship to become Indian?

I think by default yes, but told me that she doesn't remember doing anything to renounce British citizenship.

Does this affect my chance anyway, I am not sure if she had to be a citizen at the time of my birth?

Hi,

I am wondering if I can get British Citizenship through my mother.

She was born in the UK in 1954, and then moved to India with her parents and got Indian citizenship. I was born in the US in 1984.

Any advice?