kankerot wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:05 am
Do I need to register my child as being British? Both myself and my wife are British, she holds dual nationality.
I have a UK birth certificate but nothing other than that to confirm that my child has been born in the Uk.
You don't need to register your child as British if child is British by birth. And there's not really an option if you wanted to- there is no population/citizenship register in place in the U.K. The closest thing to such a register is operated by the Passport Office. Treat your child's British passport as a national ID document. Keep it up to date and do not throw away expired passports.
You may want to consider establishing a citizenship file with copies (certified preferably) of all documentation that could be relevant to your child having to re-evidence his or her British citizenship from scratch later on. This would include your own birth certificate and your wife's birth certificate and British naturalisation certificate, plus your marriage certificate and copies of your British passport ID pages. And if you were born after 1982, copies of your own parents birth and marriage certificates.
This is not intended to be legal or professional advice in any jurisdiction.
