I’ve recently moved to UK from Australia. Originally, i am from Pakistan and moved to Australia after getting married. I am 3 months pregnant and due to some personal reasons we have to go to Pakistan to deliver.
I want to ask those of you who may know. My husband is a British Citizen, by working here for more than 5 years, and not by inheritance. So now the questions arise:
Will my child born in Pakistan will be a Pakistani or British National?
How can he get his British citizenship inherited there?
How long would the process of British passport creation take?
If someone has British citizenship due to birth/adoption/naturalization then their kid would have British citizenship regardless of where they were born.
It’s different for people who get British citizenship because they were born overseas to a British citizen, if they have no change in their situation, their kid born overseas will not get British citizenship.
Can’t tell you about time and process since I have not had to deal with it.
Your child born in Pakistan will be a British national, as long as one or more of the child’s biological parents are a British citizen at the time of birth.
You would need to present the child’s British parent’s nationalization certificate to the British High Commision in Pakistan together with the Birth certificate. Further information will be available online.
Process should not take that long, a couple of months at most.
HOWEVER if someone is born outside of the UK to a parent who is a British Citizen, their children will not inherit British citizenship unless born in the UK.
So if your children are born in Pakistan and registered as British nationals because their father has British citizenship, and later your grandchildren are born in Pakistan, then your grandchildren will not be eligible for British citizenship.