Is my wife British?

UKSBD

Quick update on this.

Her father came round today with her birth certificate and a document showing she was registered at Kenyan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom so all is fine.

Primrose

Relieved all your fears have been sorted out.

This incident has reminded me that in this digital age, my old fashioned view of wanting to hang onto ancient paper records is probably not a bad thing. In this digital age trusting others to safeguard your records is probably an unreliable safeguard especially when many institutions have a policy of only keeping back records for seven years.

We should all beware and take our own precautions. One day an ancient piece of paper may be the only record anybody has that is needed to prove something quite important!

margaretclare

clairec79 wrote: »

Does she have a British passport? If so then she has British nationality and is ok (a lot of the issues with the windrush generation apparently is that they arrived on their parents passport rather than their own - Floella Benjamin was saying she is only ok because she didn't travel with her parents, so had her own passport and therefore has proof)

My birth certificate states I'm a British citizen and is registered with the consulate - there is a service on find my past about births registered abroad -however I don't think Kenya is one of the countries that is indexed on there as I just tried to find my aunt on there and she's not listed

Yes, it used to be possible for children to travel on a parent's passport, forget what age this went up to. It was also the case that a whole family could travel on the husband's passport, the wife/mother not needing one of her own.

My eldest daughter was born in Cyprus, in the RAF hospital in a sovereign base area. She came home on my passport. Her birth certificate listed her Dad's service rank and number as well as his name and was signed by an RAF officer. Despite this, there was some kerfuffle when she tried to get a new passport in the mid-90s. I think this was before Cyprus joined the EU. My son-in-law, by contrast, was OK because he was born in an army hospital in Germany, and Germany, of course, was EU.