Apply british citizenship for new born

[Srjjay]

Hi Everyone,

Hope someone has some guidance as I have been on the phoen to inland revenue, home office with some unclear answers.

I am a french citizen who came to uk in 2000, and worked for over 8-9 yrs then became self sufficient. Got married in 2014 to a non eeu and she arrived to uk end of 2014 ona family eea permit.

We got our first child, a baby girl last dec 2017.

At no point did we ever claim any benefits. Never applied for a uk resident card as it was automatic process.

Home office advised me to get 5 yrs of p60 and send with application. The issue is I can obtain the inland revenue tax info from 2001 to 2009 however it is not clear whether needs to show 5 yrs prior to child birth.

I would imagine having worked over 5 yrs would automatically trigger uk permanency.

The other route is to get a letter of confirmation of any benefits claims made ( none existing) and 5 yrs of private healthcare which unfortunately I have 4 yrs.

Appreciate if someone can give guidance on this matter.

Thanks

Jay

[vinny]

As long as you automatically acquired PR (probably since 2006) prior to the child's birth in the UK and have not been absent from the UK for longer than 2 years since acquiring PR, then you had PR when child was born. Then child is automatically British.