Giving birth abroad and maternity pay

Debt_Free_Chick

dunnd999 wrote: »

Is the doctor correct or is she entiteled to maternity pay by her company?

My view is that she is entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay - see previous post.

inkie

IIRC (and I can check when I am in work next) at Mat B1 require the signitory to state "I examined this lady on X date and certify that confinement is due week begining Y" or similar wording. I'm afraid there is no "get out" clause as "Dr Z examined hte lady" or anything like that.

If I am correct. then unless the signing doc is able to do the examination they are not able to sign, full stop (and to do so would be fraud). THey are not being deliberately obstructive to your plans or anything, just following what is legal.

That's right. If I sign a Mat B 1 it is done as a result of my examination, by virtue of my registration and therefore I couldn't dign that Sr X examined the patient on Y date.

BernadetteN

dunnd999 wrote: »

Now that would be a disaster. Just imagine, the baby being born on the other side and we get back to Heathrow and he/she refused entry because we did not ge a Visa.
Fortunately it does not work like that. With both parents being British, he/she will also be, as long as we register the birth with the Home office.

Well almost right. If the child inherits British citizenship from parents when born outside the UK, then their are 2 choices. 1 is to travel back to the UK on a South African passport, if the baby is entitled to one, and with a bit of persuading when landing back in the UK, the baby should get through Immigration with either an open date stamp or 2 months to regularize stay (or alternatively claim in the UK on holiday only but that is not good advice) then apply for a British passport like everyone else, providing proof of nationality of parents - there is no need for registration at the Home Office as it is UK Passport and Identity Service that handles passports. The Home Office (nationality section in Liverpool) only registers British citizenship for those children whose parents are not British but where the children can be British. 2 is to apply for a British passport at the British High Commission in Pretoria (or perhaps Consular Office in Capetown), where you may have to have with you the parents' full birth certificates as well as passports (to prove how parents' nationality was obtained) and travel back to the UK on that.

themaccas

I'm speechless.

seems you want it every way.

dunnd999

a Very big thank you to Debt_free_chick and Anonymousie for great advice and to everybody else too. I appreciate every single reply and are now convinced I can find a way around the problem. Thank you again.

Hapless_2

The baby will need a passport to come back with. The British High Commission should be able to issue one, I believe the birth has to be registered there too, but I believe you have to let them know you are there first.

I take it you can show SA immigration that you have enough money to live on out there? Immigration will require to know how much you have or whether you have a sponsor there. I take it that both your immunisations are up to date?

in theory yes, but would be given or apply 4 a dual nationality passport.

South Africans do not allow dual nationality anymore. You can have a South African ID card/Citizenship book and a British Passport, but no longer a British Passport and a South African Passport.

info from a friend who works in SA government.