uarena10 wrote:Manoj79 wrote:I have tried to guide through the steps that i followed in order to apply for British passport from India for my UK born child .
Baby born in UK ':D', Aug 2011 to Indian parents holding Tier-1 visa.
Child got Indian passport on September 2011 issued by Indian HC London. Didn't apply for tier-1 dependent visa.
Child travelled along with parents to India on March 2012. (Holidays)
Child remains in India with her grandparents holding Indian passport (until now May 2013). {Child care reason}
Parents got ILR/resident permit on Nov 2012 (2 years HSMP+ 3 years Tier-1).
Parents successfully registered the child as British citizen in UK (using MN1 Form) under Section 1(3) rules. We did mention that child is currently in India.
Received the registration certificate within 30 days from the date of application - April 2013.
Parents sent all the relevant documents to Grandparents for British passport application.
British passport application for child was made to British passport services in Delhi on 1 May 2013 by child's grandparents.
British authorities in India acknowledged the receipt of passport application by email and requested to surrender the Indian passport at regional passport office ASAP before proceeding with the application any further by phone & email. 10 May 2013.
No calls were made at this point to Counter signatory. Referee is a an Engineer living and working in India holding Indian passport.
Child's Indian passport was surrendered at regional passport office, by grandparents.
Child's grandparents surrendered the kids passport and posted the passport surrender certificate to British passport services in Delhi.
British authority in India is now processing my kids British passport application. Yet to receive the passport as on 22 May 2013.
I will update further details as it happens...
Apologies if i take more than your anticipated time to answer your queries.
Thanks
Child's dad
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Hi Manoj
Fairly similar situation.
Could you kindly share the documents that you submitted along with the application form.
The application guidance asks for antenatal record, vaccination record, ,parents passport (or copies to be signed by UK solicitor). Did you furnish all this.
Could you kindly also share a stepwise process also please. It would be of immense benefit.
Thanks in advance
Hi,
1) I have submitted the following original documents (2 photocopies of original documents must be submitted): Filled in Application form, 2 Passport photo of child, Backside of 1 Passport size photo must be signed by counter signatory, Credit card payment form, Child's Birth certificate, Child's British registration certificate, Hospital Discharge certificate, Child red book (UK) or vaccination card, Parents birth certificates, Parents marriage certificate, Address proof documents-Council tax,Driving licence,NI Card, Utility bills (UK), Family photograph including child (5-6 Photo's), Parents passport color photocopies (all pages attested by UK solicitor), Indian passport surrender certificate and any other relevant documents depending on your scenario.
2) Since we the parents of child were in UK while making the child's British passport application from India we had to send passport's color photocopies attested by UK solicitor (all pages). Unfortunately we had Jumbo Indian passport which contains 60 pages. I had to take color print out of all pages and convince the solicitor to attest all the pages (Mostly the blank pages). Luckily a solicitor in UK charged only £40 for attesting approx 70 pages. However, some may charge £5 for each page!
Its better to submit antenatal documents/discharge document, Red book/vaccination card as requested in guidance.
3)I have explained the steps that i followed in my original post.Your situation might be different.
One lesson that i have learned :
In my case Initially I did sent my child's Indian passport along with the British passport application. The Indian passport was returned by British passport services, Delhi within a week.I was requested to surrender my child's Indian passport to nearest Indian passport authority (in my case in Chennai) and get the Indian passport surrender certificate. They had kept my child British passport application on hold until they received the Indian passport surrender certificate from us. So if the child already has Indian passport issued either in India or UK then i would recommend to surrender it to nearest Indian passport authority and get the surrender certificate first. Later you could apply for your child's British passport.
(However in UK, you might not need to surrender the Indian passport first before British passport is issued)
Hope above information answer your query.
Thanks
Manoj
