Which children born in the UK are British? The law is complex and many families are confused about whether or not they can apply for a British passport for their child. Up to 1983 the UK had birthright citizenship, whereby all babies born in the UK were automatically British. Since 2006, where a child is born in the UK to at least one British or settled parent, the child is automatically British. “Settled” means that the parent has no time restriction on their stay in the UK. For European families, this often means the parent needs to show that they had acquired permanent residence – for instance by working for five years – by the time their child was born in the UK. Others will need to show that they held indefinite leave to remain at the time of the birth.
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