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Entrepreneur9 wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 26, 2025 9:58 pm

Good Evening all,

I am a British citizen by naturalization, and my wife is Indian. We got married in India. We are now expecting our first child in 3-4 months.

Me and my wife, we both are currently living in Oman from over a year. My wife has a full time job and I am currently on a study break.

My question is:
1. As I have been absent from the UK for over a year, will this be a problem to apply for my child's first British passport?
Your absence from the UK is not relevant to a child's passport application.
2. I have heard that it can take upto 6 months to receive a passport abroad. Am I right?
It can take that time on the sub-continent - other countries may vary.
3. My wife would like to take the child to India first, for completing some traditions and celebrations. I believe the process I need to follow is - first apply for the child's UK passport, once received, apply for child's Indian visa or OCI. This will take atleast 6-7 months in total after the child is born. Does anyone know of any quicker ways please?
Can't comment on OCI aspects.
4. Also, do I have to register a child's birth in the UK. I can see that there is a fee of £200. Not sure if there is any time limit as I wont be able to register till the child gets a British passport. As both the passport and registration needs the same original documents to be posted to the UK. So I can only complete one at a time.
It is not a requirement to register a child birth in the UK though I believe it may be useful, not sure of the time allowed for that. You can apply for child's passport without a UK birth certificate. Child's claim to BC is through your naturalisation.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.