Help Please

[nancy1]

Hello all,

please I need advice regarding my situation.
I met my husband in 2000 (french national), got married in 2003, was really happy in the marriage and then we started trying for children immediately after our wedding and then realised that my husband could not get me pregnant after trying for a while.....This really shattered me but I was determined to make it work. we tried all possible means but no luck and I started hoping for a miracle...unfortunately, age is not on both our sides especially me.

I am the only child of my parents and was really planning to have a big family. my husband came up with an idea of someone else helping since i wanted a child desperately and I declined it immediately. After careful thuoghts, I went for it and he said he was going to stand by me. I had a baby in 2007 and he was really supportive. I got my PR in september 2009, lost my dad sadly the following month.

My dad left alot of things for me in is will and my husband was really happy and then suddenly he started acting funny, started receiving text messages from girls, coming back home late etc. All of these started in December and then all of a sudden he said to me last week that he wants a divorce and that he wants to move back to his country and that everything my dad left for me has to be shared equally... I have sat him down to try and lets work it out, I even booked an appointment to see a marriage councellor but he didnt turn up. He went as far as telling me that he was just in the relationship for what he would get out of it.

I have cried so much because I still love him and now my child calls him dad and he says " I am not your Dad" he adviced me to make my child's last name my maiden name since I am the only child and that the name shoudn't just fade and I thought he meant well then, little did I know he had plans for the future...

I don't know what to do, I have no documents for my child at the moment, I don't know how to go about getting him a passport or PR or whatever he might be entitled to....
please help me, I was just an unfortunate fool in love...

Thanks alot...

[Obie]

You Can apply for British Citizenship for your child via Registeration under section 1(3),,if you obtained PR after he was born, or an indefinite leave via national rules on you country's passport, or a Residence Card via EEA route if he has not spent 5 years in the UK with you yet.

Here is the form and guidance to the right of this link

I think the first option will be the best.

I hope your situation get resolved.

[nancy1]

@ Obie, thank you very much for your quick response, I really appreciate it alot. May God bless you.

Rgds.

[thsths]

I don't know what to do, I have no documents for my child at the moment, I don't know how to go about getting him a passport or PR or whatever he might be entitled to....

The baby probably inherited the nationalities from both parents - whether you like it or not. So your child is already French and therefore has a right to stay here. Getting the passports is difficult though because you usually need consent from both parents.

As Obie says you can probably apply for registration as a British Citizen, but again you may need consent from the father. So this needs sorting out - you could apply to be the sole guardian, for example, or you could approach the biological father. But that is really a family law issue.

The same applies to your inheritance - it is entirely reasonable to keep it within the family, and he may not see a pound of it. Although that too is up to the courts.

please help me, I was just an unfortunate fool in love...

and you are blessed with a child - the best gift in the world. I hope you can still enjoy it.

[nancy1]

@ Thsths, Thank you very much for your response, I really appreciate it and I feel alot better now.

Rgds and God bless.