Registering a UK born child as British Citizen using MN1 online form
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:35 pm
Dear Forum,
Firstly I apologize if my following questions have been asked many times before. My partner and I have been recently granted ILR status and are now applying to register our UK-born child to be a British citizen using the online MN1 form. We have the following questions (some questions may sound stupid so please forgive me):
1. The beginning of MN1 form asks for an email address and then asks "who does this email address belong to ?" Since the applicant would be my UK-born child and they do not have an email address themselves, can I answer the above question using my own personal email address but saying it belongs to my child (i.e., the applicant)? Similarly, could I put my own mobile phone number but say it belongs to my child (i.e., the applicant)?
2. My UK-born child is currently holding a valid foreign passport but an expired UK BRP card. The expired BRP card was issued a few years ago as a PBS dependant visa linked to my Tier-2 skilled worker visa. We never applied for ILR for this child when my partner and I were applying for our own ILRs. Based on the above information, should I answer "no" to the following MN1 form question for my child:" Have you had settlement in the UK?"
3. My child was born in a UK hospital but stayed there for a few days for checks, so when answering the following MN1 question related to their current address: "Date you lived there from", should I put my child's date of birth as the answer, or should I put the actual date my child came back home from the hospital?
4. Regarding the question on "the town of birth" for my partner and myself, should we put the "place of birth" shown on our passports (which was not a town but a province) as the answer? Or should we put the actual towns of our birth as the answer (which are however not shown on our passports)?
5. Regarding the question on the parents' marriage, my partner and I were married in the UK a few years ago before our child was born, and we have our UK marriage certificate, but we were also registered for our marriage in our home country a year later. When the MN1 form asked for the date of our marriage, should we put our UK marriage date or our marriage registration date in our home country?
6. We moved to our current address less than 3 years ago, could we still invite our neighbor who has a British passport to be one of our child's referees? If so, how could we answer the following MN1 question: "How does the referee know the applicant?"
7. Regarding our child's expired BRP card, the MN1 form asks if "the applicant is able to provide a BRP card with this application?" The nearest option to answer this question would be "Yes, and it is valid", because the other options either state the BRP card was lost or was never issued to my child, which we believe was not correct. So could I answer the above question by selecting the "Yes, and it is valid" option (despite the BRP card is no longer valid), and then proceed to provide the past expiry date of my child's expired BRP card?
8. For the supporting documents, we need to provide a letter of consent saying my partner and I both agree to let our child apply for British citizenship, does anyone know where we could find an official template for such a letter?
9. The two referees are also required to make declarations for our child's MN1 application, what does this mean? Does anyone know how could they make such declarations, please? For example, should the referees each write a letter making such a declaration?
Sorry for asking so many questions in one thread, but we would be really grateful if anyone could answer these questions. Many thanks.
Firstly I apologize if my following questions have been asked many times before. My partner and I have been recently granted ILR status and are now applying to register our UK-born child to be a British citizen using the online MN1 form. We have the following questions (some questions may sound stupid so please forgive me):
1. The beginning of MN1 form asks for an email address and then asks "who does this email address belong to ?" Since the applicant would be my UK-born child and they do not have an email address themselves, can I answer the above question using my own personal email address but saying it belongs to my child (i.e., the applicant)? Similarly, could I put my own mobile phone number but say it belongs to my child (i.e., the applicant)?
2. My UK-born child is currently holding a valid foreign passport but an expired UK BRP card. The expired BRP card was issued a few years ago as a PBS dependant visa linked to my Tier-2 skilled worker visa. We never applied for ILR for this child when my partner and I were applying for our own ILRs. Based on the above information, should I answer "no" to the following MN1 form question for my child:" Have you had settlement in the UK?"
3. My child was born in a UK hospital but stayed there for a few days for checks, so when answering the following MN1 question related to their current address: "Date you lived there from", should I put my child's date of birth as the answer, or should I put the actual date my child came back home from the hospital?
4. Regarding the question on "the town of birth" for my partner and myself, should we put the "place of birth" shown on our passports (which was not a town but a province) as the answer? Or should we put the actual towns of our birth as the answer (which are however not shown on our passports)?
5. Regarding the question on the parents' marriage, my partner and I were married in the UK a few years ago before our child was born, and we have our UK marriage certificate, but we were also registered for our marriage in our home country a year later. When the MN1 form asked for the date of our marriage, should we put our UK marriage date or our marriage registration date in our home country?
6. We moved to our current address less than 3 years ago, could we still invite our neighbor who has a British passport to be one of our child's referees? If so, how could we answer the following MN1 question: "How does the referee know the applicant?"
7. Regarding our child's expired BRP card, the MN1 form asks if "the applicant is able to provide a BRP card with this application?" The nearest option to answer this question would be "Yes, and it is valid", because the other options either state the BRP card was lost or was never issued to my child, which we believe was not correct. So could I answer the above question by selecting the "Yes, and it is valid" option (despite the BRP card is no longer valid), and then proceed to provide the past expiry date of my child's expired BRP card?
8. For the supporting documents, we need to provide a letter of consent saying my partner and I both agree to let our child apply for British citizenship, does anyone know where we could find an official template for such a letter?
9. The two referees are also required to make declarations for our child's MN1 application, what does this mean? Does anyone know how could they make such declarations, please? For example, should the referees each write a letter making such a declaration?
Sorry for asking so many questions in one thread, but we would be really grateful if anyone could answer these questions. Many thanks.