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Child under 13 is not subject to any qualifying residential period requirement for the purpose of registration as a British citizen.

Hi
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I have ILR and my daughter have ILR as well. She is 11 years old... born outside UK...Can i apply for her BC(using MN form under section 3(1) at anytime and don't need to wait for fer 1 year qualifying period? or do you mean this is only correct if both or one parent already got BC?

I got this impression from above post...please guide me????

Read 9.17.15 - 9.17.23

tonypetty wrote:Child under 13 is not subject to any qualifying residential period requirement for the purpose of registration as a British citizen.

Hi
...
I have ILR and my daughter have ILR as well. She is 11 years old... born outside UK...Can i apply for her BC(using MN form under section 3(1) at anytime and don't need to wait for fer 1 year qualifying period? or do you mean this is only correct if both or one parent already got ILR?

I got this impression from above post...please guide me????

Just holding ILR by the parent is not enough.

See Q1 in Citizenship FAQs - Common Questions - Read before posting - Children.

Many thanks for both of you....I could not find my answer in this...From your experience can you please guide me ???

If for any reason either parents dont apply for nutralization at the completion of one year of ILR then can still non UK born child still apply for registration u/s 3(1) after one year of ILR independantly????? siblings already got BC and passports????????

Sorry to bother you both but could not find an answer in guidance

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If the child was born outside the UK, then once one parent applies for naturalisation, the child can apply for Registration under section 3(1). The is application at discretion and the HO would expect that the other parent to hold (or to be close to holding) a ILR/PR status.
For the guidelines on Registration at discretion see section 9.17 .


above is an answer from Q1 and this does not tell that if either parents dont apply for naturalization then can a child still apply for registration??? assuming both parents have ILR for more than a year...

tonypetty wrote:If for any reason either parents dont apply for nutralization at the completion of one year of ILR then can still non UK born child still apply for registration u/s 3(1) after one year of ILR independantly????? siblings already got BC and passports????????

For the guidelines on Registration at discretion see section 9.17.

Follow the suggestion given. In particular read 9.17.9.

Thanks sushdmehta

I think i got my answer....one parent have to naturalized first in order for non UK born child to be eligible for registration and other parent have to hold ILR