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Hi,

My daughter was born outside the UK in Feb 2011 and has been living in the UK since July 2011. In 2013, my daughter and I were granted ILR, and in 2014 I received British Citizenship but I didn't apply for BC for my daughter at the time.

I am planning to apply for BC for her soon and I think it's section 3(1) that I need to applied under, am I right? If I understand correctly, section 3(5) doesn't apply to my daughter since I was not BC at the time of her birth.

I would appreciate if someone could confirm this for me.

Thank you in advance.

Section 3(1).

Section 3(5) applies to children of British citizens by descent. As you got your British citizenship by naturalization, it is British citizenship otherwise than by descent. Hence, it does not apply.