Registering a Birth

[adamn1 0]

Hi all,

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but I didnt know where else to put it. >snigger<

My wife and I had a baby girl nearly 2 years ago. My wife is American and I am British and a greencard holder.

Should I register my daughter with the British? I'd love her to have dual citizenship or be able to get it relatively easy when she's older if need be... Is there any advantage to her / me in doing so? If I wanted to move back to the UK one day, would it be easier if I had registered her? I dont even know if register is the right word... Im sure you guys will know what Im on about though

And I sent my N400 in packet today too. Wish me luck

Thanks in advance! Adam

[Little_My 464]

Well, I'm not Brit (though every time I say I am from "Finland", americans respond with "...Do you mean England"?..) but I would personally absolutely register your daughter in the UK too. I mean.. why wouldn't you? I don't know how the UK deals with these issues, but at least with Finland, if/when I have a baby, he/she will automatically have both U.S. and Finnish citizenship. If we live in US when our baby is born, I need to inform the Finnish population registry, and they will update the baby's information in our systems. It is easier (in the case of Finland) when I, the mother, is the Finnish citizen - the baby automatically gets Finnish citizenship as soon as the birth is registered. If the father was the citizen, we would have to "acknowledge paternity", which we could do in the embassy here.

I'm sure the UK population registry website has information on how to do this there!

[Inky 1,111]

Yep deffo register your child and get her British passport. Its nothing but good and makes it way easier for her to travel there or go to school there or live there w/e she chooses to do when shes older. Specially if you guys decide to relocate to the UK sometime, MUCH easier because shes already got the citizenship and passport. Only person you would have to worry on is the mother getting hers.

[adamn1 0]

So I guess I do that with the british embassy huh? I'll get right on it.

You guys rule.

[JoannaV 174]

Here's the link about birth registration: http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/living-in-usa/birth-registration/

But this is NOT mandatory. You can apply for the passport straight away instead, which would save you some money

[NickD 203]

Having a baby born of a US citizen is a US citizen, but here is the problem, that place of birth. If born here, no problem, place of birth on her birth certificate will be someplace in the USA and that is all that baby needs.

But not born in the USA puts a different country on her birth certificate, now they could be kind and issue that child a birth certificate showing, say either parents place of birth is was at that parents home town and call it quits, but they don't do that. And event though this child is by all rights a US citizen, have to go through what looks like a naturalization process.

And I don't give a good damn what our idiots running this country say, a naturalized citizen is not the same as a child born here. An illegal sneaking across the border to have child here is in far better shape than what you are. That child is more than welcomed to all the benefits of our overly generous socialistic welfare program. Surprised they don't make you sign an I-864 for your US citizen child.

We have nine guys on the Supreme Court that were appointed by whatever character sits in the White House and rubber stamped if his party is in power, and all it takes is a 5-4 vote to permanently embed however they in their OPINION should interpret some very nebulous statements in the amendments, in this case the 14th in our US Constitution! My God, even in a criminal court, they jury has to be unanimous!

Your best option is to lay out 600 bucks for the N-600, shouldn't the N-400 be 400 bucks? Or waste your time and write your congressman. When dealing with either the DOS or the USCIS, they claim congress makes the laws. But when you contact your senator or congressman, they haven't even heard of the DOS or the USCIS! But they make the laws? What the heck, they only have 1,525 different government agencies that most were formed in the last 40 years. Certainly they should know all about those!

[Myopia 93]

Having a baby born of a US citizen is a US citizen, but here is the problem, that place of birth. If born here, no problem, place of birth on her birth certificate will be someplace in the USA and that is all that baby needs.

But not born in the USA puts a different country on her birth certificate, now they could be kind and issue that child a birth certificate showing, say either parents place of birth is was at that parents home town and call it quits, but they don't do that. And event though this child is by all rights a US citizen, have to go through what looks like a naturalization process.

And I don't give a good damn what our idiots running this country say, a naturalized citizen is not the same as a child born here. An illegal sneaking across the border to have child here is in far better shape than what you are. That child is more than welcomed to all the benefits of our overly generous socialistic welfare program. Surprised they don't make you sign an I-864 for your US citizen child.

We have nine guys on the Supreme Court that were appointed by whatever character sits in the White House and rubber stamped if his party is in power, and all it takes is a 5-4 vote to permanently embed however they in their OPINION should interpret some very nebulous statements in the amendments, in this case the 14th in our US Constitution! My God, even in a criminal court, they jury has to be unanimous!

Your best option is to lay out 600 bucks for the N-600, shouldn't the N-400 be 400 bucks? Or waste your time and write your congressman. When dealing with either the DOS or the USCIS, they claim congress makes the laws. But when you contact your senator or congressman, they haven't even heard of the DOS or the USCIS! But they make the laws? What the heck, they only have 1,525 different government agencies that most were formed in the last 40 years. Certainly they should know all about those!

Ermmm... His daughter is a born US Citizen. He is asking whether he has to do anything to transfer British Citizenship to his daughter and the answer is no.

He doesnt have to register her birth and he doesnt even need to get her a passport. As long as he (The father) is a born UK citizen then he is able to transmit citizenship to her without any kind of problem.

What would be the point in getting her a British passport unless you are planning to go to the Uk? The British embassy wont even issue a British passport before she has her American passport first. I know because when I went to get my childrens British passports the UK embassy in DC sent their applications back with a note attached telling me the same.

If a child is born outside of the US to At least one american parent who has lived in the US for a total of five years (2 after the age of 14 for a father or one year(for a mother) than that child is also an automatic citizen who only needs to get a birth certificate issued through a consulate.

The only child that goes through a naturalization certificate is a child that becomes a USC through derivative rather than the former which is aquisition. So that child who automatically becomes a USC because a) one of her parents is a USC b) child enters the US as a LPR AND c) the child goes in the custody of the USC becomes an automatic citizen also.

[NickD 203]

Ermmm... His daughter is a born US Citizen. He is asking whether he has to do anything to transfer British Citizenship to his daughter and the answer is no.

He doesnt have to register her birth and he doesnt even need to get her a passport. As long as he (The father) is a born UK citizen then he is able to transmit citizenship to her without any kind of problem.

What would be the point in getting her a British passport unless you are planning to go to the Uk? The British embassy wont even issue a British passport before she has her American passport first. I know because when I went to get my childrens British passports the UK embassy in DC sent their applications back with a note attached telling me the same.

If a child is born outside of the US to At least one american parent who has lived in the US for a total of five years (2 after the age of 14 for a father or one year(for a mother) than that child is also an automatic citizen who only needs to get a birth certificate issued through a consulate.

The only child that goes through a naturalization certificate is a child that becomes a USC through derivative rather than the former which is aquisition. So that child who automatically becomes a USC because a) one of her parents is a USC b) child enters the US as a LPR AND c) the child goes in the custody of the USC becomes an automatic citizen also.

They do have a special birth certificate for a child born of a US citizen born overseas? I didn't know that, but wonder if the OP knew that as well. Is there a time limit?