Hey ausgirl, Sorry I've not looked at this thread for a while. I've got no further with the application - the people on the other end of the phone are particularly unhelpful. Disappointing to hear you had no luck with that email address, as I write I'm in the middle of bashing out my own questions ...

Thanks for the help.

I was born in 1989 (in Australia).

Wow osteophytes, thanks for the link! I had not come accross that document in my trawling.

I guess what I need to check now is that becuase she was born before the Nationality Act (1981) came into effect, if that changes anything.

Hi all, I've got a complicated question regarding my own claims to British citizenship by descent. - My mother was born in Uganda (then a British protectorate) in 1960 - Both her parents were British (born in the UK, both to English parents), working for the Crown Service (then Colonial Service) in ...