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Registration of children and eligible adults. Please note the language and LITUK requirements DO NOT apply to REGISTRATION (MN1, UKF, UKM, T), however, the good character requirement applies to adults and children aged 10 years and over.
Children born when neither parent had acquired PR status or been granted ILR before they were born will have to be registered to be British. After registration, they can apply for a British passport.
On 1 July 2021, new legislation introduced a new Section to the British Nationality Act 1981.
This new section ensures that certain children born from 1 July 2021 onwards will automatically acquire British citizenship in situations where a parent qualified...
Unlike children born in the UK, the fact that a parent later acquires PR or citizenship doesn't allow them to be deemed British from birth and they have no entitlement to register as British in the same way children born in the UK may be able to do.
This document provides guidance on the registration of children under 18:
MN1 Guidance Although the requirement to have held PR...
Each referee should know the child personally.
One referee should be a professional who has engaged with the child in a professional capacity, such as a teacher, health visitor, social worker or minister of religion.
The other referee must normally be the holder of a British citizen passport and either a professional person or over the age of 25.
What happens if...
Form UKF guidance
Online UKF application form