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I'm not sure that this is the right board - question re grandson
thorsoak
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I'm not sure that this is the right board on which to post my query - but it has arisen from another posting on this particular board.
Situation is this: my DD and her OH moved abroad for his job in 1995. Since then, DGS and DGD were born overseas, both births registered with British embassy and both have British passports (both parents are British born & bred).
They are currently in USA and hold green cards and DGS, who will be 15 next month and can be issued with a green card so he will be able to work legally in USA - until he is 18. By which time, DD and her OH will probably have applied for US citizenship, which will automatically include both DGS and DGD. SIL's position is permanent (the same company for the last 18 years) and the likelihood of them returning to the UK in the foreseeable future is pretty low.
However, DGS is saying that he might like to attend university in the UK, and I am wondering what his position would be in regard to working - obviously he wouldn't get a student loan (his parents would have to pay for his studies in the USA and would expect to have to do the same here) - but would he be able to get a NI no to enable him to get part-time work? He would be a British citizen who hasn't spent more than 3 months at a time in the UK!:eek: Of course he wouldn't be entitled to any benefits, nor would he need any - but would it be easy for him to get NI no etc?
As I say, he is only just coming up for 15, so his ideas/plans could change in the future, but forewarned is fore-armed!
Situation is this: my DD and her OH moved abroad for his job in 1995. Since then, DGS and DGD were born overseas, both births registered with British embassy and both have British passports (both parents are British born & bred).
They are currently in USA and hold green cards and DGS, who will be 15 next month and can be issued with a green card so he will be able to work legally in USA - until he is 18. By which time, DD and her OH will probably have applied for US citizenship, which will automatically include both DGS and DGD. SIL's position is permanent (the same company for the last 18 years) and the likelihood of them returning to the UK in the foreseeable future is pretty low.
However, DGS is saying that he might like to attend university in the UK, and I am wondering what his position would be in regard to working - obviously he wouldn't get a student loan (his parents would have to pay for his studies in the USA and would expect to have to do the same here) - but would he be able to get a NI no to enable him to get part-time work? He would be a British citizen who hasn't spent more than 3 months at a time in the UK!:eek: Of course he wouldn't be entitled to any benefits, nor would he need any - but would it be easy for him to get NI no etc?
As I say, he is only just coming up for 15, so his ideas/plans could change in the future, but forewarned is fore-armed!
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might be better to check out the rules as they then exist nearer the time,but he should keep in mind that getting a job here even in 3years time will still be difficult0
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As a British Citizen, he has a right of abode, and can come and go from the UK as he wishes, once an adult. He will be able to work. He can certainly sort out an NI number, too.
Both your grandchildren are British by descent, assuming neither of their parents were working for hte British government abroad. Their own children won't be British citizens, and won't be entitled to British nationality as of right, unless they are themselves born in the UK....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
He'd probably have to have a face to face interview, and lots of documentary evidence of who he is. It can take several weeks to get an NI number.0
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