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Dear All,

I want some advice on whether there is any route for my child to be registered/applied to become a British Citizen.

Child born abroad while I had ILR and 2 months after my child was born I did my Ceremony to become British (Oct child born and I became British in December same year)

My child has been in the UK since 2014 and now on FLR (FP) along with my wife. She is 9 year old now and came to the UK when he was 4 5 months old.

Could I make any application for my child to become British somehow as I am not going to afford to keep paying the visa fees for both as they are on 10 years route.

Thanks a lot.

Dalia

Children born abroad follow the immigration pathway of their second/less-privileged parent and are eligible for ILR with the second parent.They can then be registered as a British citizen.

Had the child been born in the UK while you were on ILR, the child would have been born a British citizen.

As there are a few years to go for the various immigration and naturalisation applications, can you not put plans in place to save money, as the upcoming expense is known?

Thank you for your reply,

When the fees were reasonable couple of years ago (I paid nearly £4k 2 years ago), I was able to but no to fork out nearly £6k is not possible for both.

The sad thing is that they did a mistake when calculating my income before my wife's visa was processed and hence it got delayed therefore my child birth was abroad.

As both your wife and child are on the FLR(FP) pathway anyway, you can make a fee waiver request before making their FLR(FP) applications. You may get either a full or a partial fee waiver.

You will still need to save for the ILR and naturalisation fees, for which there is no fee waiver.