The Citizenship Rights of American Children Born Overseas Form

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we've had our discussion earlier regarding whether you're British by descent or British otherwise than by descent a child born outside the UK after 19 83 will acquire UK nationality if the parent is British otherwise than by descent not if the parent is British by descent there are exceptions to these rules and we'll deal with a few of them in the next few slides now we've mentioned that usually child born outside of the UK whose parents is British by descent can't pass that nationality to a further generation born overseas now we have some exceptions in those circumstances if the parent concerned has lived in the UK for a period of at least 2 and a half years going on to 3 years at some stage in the past before the child is born it is possible to acquire British nationality for that child by formal application applications of this nature have to be made before the child becomes 18 years years of age up until February 2010 applications were only possible within the first 12 months of t