Born in India UK to British Father and Indian Mother

[brms]

I hold a British passport (through naturalisation) and my wife holds an Indian passport (and has a dependent UK visa). We’re planning to have the baby in India.

Having gone through the forum, my understanding is that we have 2 options to get to the UK passport for the child.
A) Apply for Indian passport in India, then apply for the CoE in India, travel to the UK with those documents. Once here in the UK, apply for the UK passport for the child. I believe the Indian leg of the applications i.e. Indian passport + CoE take about 30 – 45 days in total if we apply for the Indian passport via tatkal.
B) Apply for the UK passport in India. I believe this takes about 6 months +/- 3 months depending on how lucky you are.

Could you please?

1) Confirm that my understanding of the routes and timelines stated in A & B above are correct?
2) If we use route A, is the UK passport application once the child is in the UK as straightforward as it is for a child born in the UK? Is the application the same as it is for a child born here in the UK? I.e. this one… (https://www.gov.uk/get-a-child-passport ... d-passport)
3) If we decide to pick route A, besides the extra £400 odd we would need to pay to get the CoE in India, are there are any other short-term or long-term disadvantages for the child in taking this route?
4) Would the child be eligible for OCI? I guess I would need to surrender the Indian passport for my child after getting his/her UK passport if he/ she is eligible for the OCI?
5) My wife is still on her dependent visa and is yet to complete her 5 years to be eligible for ILR. My understanding re. her visa is that in any rolling 12 month period, she cannot be away from the country for more than 180 days to keep the 5 year clock ticking towards the ILR and pregnancy does not count as an exception to that rule. Am I correct?

Could someone help me with these queries?

Many thanks in advance.

[CR001]

1. Correct

2. Same process to apply for a passport. One week fast track available in the UK for children passports.

3. No.

4. Ask OCI questions in the 'Other Countries' sub forum further down the main forum page.

5. You are wrong. ALL absences count. Pregnancy is NOT excluded.

[CR001]

Can you please desist from tagging the same post onto every other topic you find!!!

[brms]

First of all - Sorry, I didn't mean to post it multiple times but for some reason when I went back to the page and hit refresh my post wasn't coming up. I thought it was a bug and hence the respost.

Secondly - thanks a lot for your response. Re. the point 5 where you said "You are wrong. ALL absences count. Pregnancy is NOT excluded.".
- Do you mean the number of days she's away from the country i.e. the number of absences will include the time she is away even during pregnancy? I think we are saying the same thing but I just wanted to double-check.
- Re. the OCI, I will lookup for the correct forum.

Thanks a lot.

[CR001]

Secondly - thanks a lot for your response. Re. the point 5 where you said "You are wrong. ALL absences count. Pregnancy is NOT excluded.".
- Do you mean the number of days she's away from the country i.e. the number of absences will include the time she is away even during pregnancy? I think we are saying the same thing but I just wanted to double-check.

Just realised the 'not' in your original question. ALL days out of the UK are included in the 180 days max absence in any 12 month rolling period. If she goes to home country for 7 or 9 months, her residence is broken and she starts again from scratch.

[brms]

Perfect, thanks a lot.