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Hi there

This is a curly one.

My wife was born in New Zealand in 1965 to a British born father and a NZ born mother, her parents were married, so she is legitimate. Her birth parents gave her up for adoption at age two. I spoke to the Consulate in Canberra (we are living in Australia) and they told me that she was a British citizen at birth and it was irrrelevant what happened to her after her birth.

We are married and I am also British by birth.
However I would like to apply for her British passport via decent, not spousal visa.

The documents I have are

Her birth parents marriage certificate stating her fathers nationality, place of birth.

Her birth mothers old Blue British passport gained via marriage.

My wifes NZ birth certificate stating her fathers name and place of birth,
with an issued for puposes of adoption stamp on it.

I also have
also her adoption papers and her three name change documents

I do not have her fathers birth certificate.

Her birth father is obviously long gone.

Does anyone know if it would be worth applying for her passport without her fathers birth certificate with the documents mentioned above ?

phew!
Glad to get that off my chest...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.......

you could look at ordering her fathers certificate and this could simplify the process

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentc ... /DG_175628

Yes had a look at that.

Just don't have all the details required as yet
and getting them is a subject for another forum.

But yes you are probably right..

Thanks for your comment.

We are married and I am also British by birth.
However I would like to apply for her British passport via decent, not spousal visa.

Out of curiosity, is Citizenship by decent more favourable in some way or is there another reason?

I think in this case citizen by decent means the person is already British, its just about proving it. All they would neeed to do is to apply for passport.

The 'spousal route' is not citizenship, it route towards citizenship which takes a long time and costs a lot of money

Exactly !

kawasaki1 wrote:

We are married and I am also British by birth.
However I would like to apply for her British passport via decent, not spousal visa.

Out of curiosity, is Citizenship by decent more favourable in some way or is there another reason?

Does Citizenship by decent mean that if they are good decent people they are entitled to live here and indecent people are not?

No it just means that after months of research and reading immigration acts,legal terms and definitions, with dates and finaly posts at two AM in a forum such as this, it is easy to make a typo between decent and descent.

Thankyou for being the spelling police it is most descent of you.