UK Citizenship and Naturalisation Help

British Citizenship By Descent
British Citizenship By Descent Or Otherwise

Every British citizen is either a British citizen otherwise than by descent or a British citizen by descent. We can help you to apply for citizenship in London, Kingsbury, Harrow, Wembley, Southall, Watford, Queensbury, Kenton, Stanmore, Hays, Hounslow, Eastham and rest of the London. 

This difference is important because the type of citizenship people have decided the way in which they can pass British citizenship on to their children who were born outside the United Kingdom.

A British citizen, otherwise than by descent, can automatically pass on British citizenship to a child born outside the UK. You can be a British Citizen otherwise than by descent by:

Birth;
Registration;
Naturalisation;
Adoption.

A British citizen by descent is a person born outside the UK and is acquired if one or both parents are British citizens. Our immigration advisors can help you with application in London, Canary Wharf, Southwark, London Bridge, West End, Shoreditch, Central London, East London, West London, South East London, South West London and North London.

This means that you cannot automatically pass on British citizenship to any child who is born abroad. You are a British citizen by descent if:

You are born outside the UK to a parent who was a British citizen at the time;
It does not matter whether the birth took place before or after 1 January 1983 as long as a child who was born before that date became a British citizen on that date;
On 31 December 1982, he or she was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies through:
his or her own birth, or
a parent’s or a grandparent’s birth,
legal adoption
naturalisation
registration

You lived in the UK while a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies for five years at any time before 1 January 1983, and were not subject to restrictions under the immigration laws at the end of that five-year period.

You are a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by connection with the Falkland Islands and Dependencies (i.e. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands). Our citizenship advisors can help you in Harrow, Hounslow, Brent, Redbridge, Ealing, Newham, Hillingdon, Slough, Wolverhampton, Leicester, Sandwell, Coventry, Walsall, Warwick, Oadby and Wigston, Blaby, Charnwood.