United Kingdom - Passport & Nationality - NEW - British Citizenship by Double Descent (Wedlock Discretion - GF Sec 3(2))
New legislation that looks to remedy historical unfairness in the older nationality law gained Royal Assent on 28 April 2022. One such area that this affects is where a child registration did not take place because the child's parent was not a British citizen because their parents were not married at the time of birth. Based on your family tree, it appears that such an application would be successful. While the theory is complex, this solution broadly requires the following:
- the child's birth between 1 January 1983 and 13 January 1992;
- the child is now at least 18 years old;
- the child's parent spent at least three years in the UK before the child's birth;
- the child's grandfather was born in the UK;
- the child's parent was born out of wedlock.