Need parent's passport for C1 application?

[msfi01]

I am Australian, and am applying for a passport using the C1 form. I am able to obtain all documents, but am unclear about the previous passport/travel documents question. Sorry if this has been answered before.

I was included on my mother's British passport when we travelled as a child, and I have an Australian passport, so I need to tick 'yes' for this question.

The notes for the form say that the parent's passport itself should be provided. As any passport with myself included would have expired well over a decade ago, she would have been issued with another British passport since, and my mother has since become an Australian citizen (but before 2002 so she would have renounced British), I really doubt that she would have kept it (or should she have??)

Is there anywhere else I can find out the details, or will it really slow down the process to answer 'yes' and then have to fill out the LSO form (even though it wasn't my passport, but my mother's?)

Also, do I have to send in my Australian passport with the application? I am travelling soon and would rather wait to apply if that's the case.

Thanks for any help. Apart from this I have all the documents required.

[JAJ]

The notes for the form say that the parent's passport itself should be provided. As any passport with myself included would have expired well over a decade ago, she would have been issued with another British passport since, and my mother has since become an Australian citizen (but before 2002 so she would have renounced British), I really doubt that she would have kept it (or should she have??)

They want to see the passport on which you arrived in Australia mainly to confirm your identity. If it's not available you just need to explain that.

They might want to see your current Australian passport for the same reason.

Where on earth did you get the idea that becoming Australian pre-2002 would have caused your mother to lose British citizenship. It didn't. The Australians never asked new citizens to renounce their old citizenship under the laws of the former country, so if your mother did formally sign away her citizenship at the British High Commission (unlikely she did) then she was rather foolish to do so.

[msfi01]

They want to see the passport on which you arrived in Australia mainly to confirm your identity. If it's not available you just need to explain that.

OK, that's fine. I didn't arrive on it though - I was born in Australia so I would use my Australian birth certificate.

Where on earth did you get the idea that becoming Australian pre-2002 would have caused your mother to lose British citizenship. It didn't.

I was assuming that before Australia recognised dual-nationals in 2002, that meant she had to give up her British citizenship.

[JAJ]

I was assuming that before Australia recognised dual-nationals in 2002, that meant she had to give up her British citizenship.

No, nothing like that. Dual citizenship was legal in many circumstances in Australia pre-2002. The only exceptions concerned Australians who actively acquired the citizenship of another country.

Immigrants becoming Australian were never asked to sign away their original citizenship. And people born dual Australian/other (eg you) were usually allowed to keep it.

The law was very unfair and that is why it was repealed.

And your mother is still British unless she went to the British High Commission and formally signed away her British citizenship. And if she did that before you were born, you would not be a British citizen yourself.