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Hi there,
We have ILR for all of us, but we want to apply for UK citizenship only for both children (age 17 and age 10), we don't want to apply for citizenship for ourselves as parents. is there any process, which we can apply for UK citizenship only for children without applying as an adult along with them? As life in UK test and English test is not mandatory for children, how we can process for their UK citizenship application?
could anyone help/guide us here, please?

Another point, if in any case, we cannot apply only for children's citizenship only, but children's ILR biometric card is expiring in April 2022, is there any process to extend the ILR bio-metric card? how much it costs?

Thanks - Anil

Children born outside the UK have no automatic entitlement to British citizenship. An application to register for a non-UK born child will usually be successful when the child has at least one British parent. If neither of the child’s parents are British, one of you needs to apply for citizenship before or at the same time as your children.

ILR BRP card simply needs to be replaced: https://www.gov.uk/biometric-residence- ... xpired-brp

If you plan to apply for the children's registration without meeting the expected requirements, you will need to provide strong compelling compassionate reasons as to why the rules should be set aside for the children to be registered as British citizens.

Alternatively, as the eldest child is 17, just wait for their 18th birthday and then they can apply for naturalisation as an adult meeting all the requirements (English language test, LITUK test, absences over the past five and one year, physical presence, etc) in their own right.

Naturalisation has no requirements for parental status.

thank you so much both for your quick response, it's much appreciated. very helpful.