Hi All My partner has just given birth to our baby daughter in Cebu. We are all together at present in Cebu and we have the birth certificate processed. I have proof from the hospital that our daughter was born there. I will have to travel back to the UK end of May and I want to get paperwork sorted whilst I am here if possible so that my daughter has a passport. My partner and I are not married and at present we have not gone through getting any visa sorted for her to live in the UK. That seems a long painful task! What I really want is to enable them both to travel to the UK for a holiday for now so that my family can meet them both. I really do not know what to do. Some have said I need to register my daughter at the British Counsel? I am not sure really. I just want to get her passport sorted. I would really like to ensure she gets British Citizenship because the long term goal is to get both of them to England. Is there a simple task list to enable this or can anyone suggest the best course of action? Thanks for any help Trev
First thing you need to do is go to the (official) UK Passport Office website. The documents required by the PO are listed there. It is apparently taking up to a year or more for the (useless !) Passport Office to process this type of passport. There will certainly be a waiting period because the birth certificate needs to be the one from the NSO, (National Statistics Office) not the 'temporary' one that you have been issued with. Your local hospital (or the NSO) will be able to advise how long local procedures like that will take.
Hi Graham, thanks for the reply. I thought there might be something like that as I was told I would have to wait a month but also people were saying I had the certificate already. Now it makes sense that I have a temporary version. Once I have the proper document do you know what else I need and the steps I need to take? It seems a real battle sometimes to get a proper explanation from people here on the correct procedures to follow. Trev
You would think our beloved HO would readily make all this information available to its Citizens in an easy to understand format. Marriage might have made your task easier Trev There are other recent threads here on this to read including the infant getting a "right of abode visa" in their Filipino passport however Visit visas for your partner are a real lottery
I would look into the certificate of entitlement of the right to abode, has someone on here did it before has tried for visit visa but told them to do the COF has child is british citizen.
Just to clarify when I said '..explanation from people here' I was referring to people in the Philippines, not on this forum. This forum is a bit of a lifeline at the moment as I feel so in the dark deal with people in the Philippines. I never quite know if I have all the facts or not. Thanks for the all the replies
