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

This solution (as a British Overseas Citizen, commonly referred to as a BOC) is based on a complicated set of circumstances.

It relies on a birth in a territory where the applicant 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 applicant was reclassified as a Citizen of the UK & Colonies and as a British Overseas Citizen on 1 January 1983.

The criteria of this soltion are:

 - Candidate born before 1 January 1949;

 - Candidate born in a territory where they were a BPP at Birth (a former British Protectorate, Protected State, UK Mandated or Trust Territory, or a foreign country where the British Crown exercised Extra Territorial Jurisdiction);

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

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

Where the candidate has the Right of Abode, then this BOC status could be upgraded to full British nationality. The Right of Abode is normally gained:

 - from a UK-born grandparent; OR

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