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Hello,

My mother was born in Greece, in May 1960 and she got UK citizenship by descent (her father and grandfather were cypriots with uk citizenship).

She renounced her citizenship in 2006.
I was born in 1989 in Greece. Do I have a chance in a UK citizenship since at the time of my birth, my mum were british?
Also what's the fee for the application? I thought it was 80 pounds.

Thanks

No

effy01 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:44 pm

Hello,

My mother was born in Greece, in May 1960 and she got UK citizenship by descent (her father and grandfather were cypriots with uk citizenship).

She renounced her citizenship in 2006.
I was born in 1989 in Greece. Do I have a chance in a UK citizenship since at the time of my birth, my mum were british?
Also what's the fee for the application? I thought it was 80 pounds.

Thanks

Unfortunately citizenship by decent can not be passed on. This is obviously only relevant if you do not live in the UK and have no other way of qualifying.

There are some subtleties to this which can read about here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... n-v2.0.pdf for instance if your mother was an EU worker/British worker at the time etc

Quite apart from the citizenship by descent aspect, it is quite possible that your mother was not a British citizen at the time of your birth, but a British Overseas Citizen (BOC), a status that cannot be inherited unless you are stateless.

Before 1983, there were two separate statuses. Your mother was a CUKC (Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies) by descent from her father, who was born on a British colony. However, she did not have the Right of Abode (RoA), a status which she would get only if she had either an ancestral (from either parent) or residential link to the UK itself (i.e. not to a colony).

Therefore, if neither she nor her parents resided or had some connection (birth, registration or naturalisation) in the UK, she would have been a CUKC without RoA.

In 1983, the law changed, so that CUKCs with RoA became British citizens, while CUKCs without RoA became British Overseas Citizens, who did not have the right to reside in the UK, even though they had British passports.

It may be worth checking your mother's old passports to see if she was a British Citizen or a British Overseas Citizen. I think, based on the information that you have provided so far, that she was a BOC at the time of your birth and therefore that you would not be able to inherit that status anyway.