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Hello all

I looked through previous posts to see whether my question would fit anywhere however nothing that has been active in the last year seemed to meet the exact question I have.

I'll put the question first and the background is below - will my child be a British Citizen once born?

So the story is: I am expecting a child in a few months' time and I've lived in the UK for more than 5 years (6-7 years currently). However I have been a student for the first 4 of these and a full-time employee for the last 2 and something years...
Whilst I was a student I didn't have private medical insurance however I had EHIC cards for most of the 4 years and at the same time I worked part-time all throughout these 4 years...Now, even though I earned below my Personal Allowance I never actually claimed back tax or NI so I still would have made contributions (wouldn't have been an awful lot seeing as I didn't earn more than 6k a year, however they were there). Probably HMRC couldve been sending me cheques with money owed to me, however I never got them as I often had problems with my mail...
I have now actually ordered a letter form the NI department of HMRC to see exactly whats on their records....
So in any case - I wonder whether this situation should suffice to grant the child a british citizenship?
I have had advice that a Permanent Residency document may help however I am not sure in this either?

Any help/input would be highly appreciated.
Thanks

Even if part-time - you're still a worker. You can try applying for Permanent Residence using EEA3 form on that basis. Surely, you should be fine. I used to work and study at the same time and got my PR through worker's route even though there were months when I had worked less than 10 hours a week.

Not claiming the tax you're owed is just preposterous. Claiming the money you're entitled to is not a crime.

I'm not entirely sure but I believe that both parents required to be permanent residents for a baby to be automatically eligible for citizenship.

I think only one parent needs to have PR.

Firstly , thank you so much Badratio, LilyLalilu and Milan69! I so appreciate this.

I've just had a look at EEA3 now and I wondered whether you used any professional services when any of you were applying for PR? Probably not all of you had applied actually

I realise that I may miss some information such as contracts of employment, letter(s) from your employer(s) confirming employment, wage slips and P60s for the time I was a student and part-time employed. Pretty much the only thing I have is my bank account showing when money had come in from the companies I worked for. Also I have a letter with a tax code for one of the years..
What are your thoughts on this..? I am not overly optimistic for some reason..
I will go back to all employers to check whether they could provide me with any of this information whatsoever but wonder what to do if they can't. I know (hope) at least the more recent ones will...

If anyone is aware of any law that may require employers to keep such records for say... 7 years..let me know?

Also I am still awaiting the National Insurance letters I ordered from HMRC which will hopefully show NI had been paid form each employer I have been working for...and hopefully some Tax letters will be coming in as well. The NI letters are the more important ones, right?

@Badratio - I know you mentioned one does not need to prove they have been earning an awful lot...is that in regards to PR as well? Is that how you applied when/if you were doing an application? Or did you apply based on different grounds?

@milan69 - the post you have referred me to is really helpful. I've actually had a look through it all as there's a lot of usefulness in there - I wonder though - is it still just as relevant today as it was in 2012? If so, that means a parent's PR is sufficient for the authorities when registering a child, so that it is granted British citizenship (based form this paragraph - If the child was born in the UK after one parent has ILR/PR, then the child is British from birth and can apply directly for a passport.) That would be such a relief