United Kingdom - Passport & Nationality - British Overseas Citizen (BOC) - Descent from Pre 49 Birth Territory

This solution is based on a complicated set of circumstances. It relies on descent from a father born in a territory where the father became both a British Protected Person (or BPP) and British Subject at birth. When the new British Nationality Act came into force in 1949, the father was reclassified as a Citizen of the UK & Colonies and as a British Overseas Citizen (or British citizen if they had the Right of Abode) on 1 January 1983.

The criteria of this soltion are:

 - Candidate born before 1983;

 - Candidate born in a former British territory;

 - Candidate's father born before 1 January 1949;

 - Candidate's father born in a territory where they were a BPP at Birth (a former British Protectorate, Protected State, UK Mandated or Trust Territory);

 - Candidate's paternal grandfather born outside of a country that became a Commonwealth country on 1 January 1949; AND

 - Candidate's paternal great grandfather born in a former British Crown Dominion.

Where the candidate has the Right of Abode, then they would have been reclassified as a British citizen on 1 January 1983. Otherwise, the candidate became a British Overseas Citizen (or BOC) on 1 January 1983. The Right of Abode is normally gained:

 - from a UK-born grandparent; OR

 - where a woman married a British husband before 1 January 1983.