Dual Canada-Britain Citizenship Eligibility

[lombarap]

Hi folks --

My grandfather was born in Northern Ireland; his daughter (my mother) was born in Canada.

Am I entitled to apply for British Citizenship? I've been trying to find out online myself, but the British government website is a bit hard to follow.

Anyone with similar experience able to help?

Thanks in advance,

Anthony

[Reba]

Nope, you're not eligible for citizenship, but you may be eligible for an Anscestry Visa to the UK.

http://www.workpermit.com/uk/ancestry.htm

[rosswag]

I have British / Canadian Passports. WhenI hot them they told me it depends on your father only, the mother's origin doesn't matter.
Ross

[Reba]

for British citizenship, according to their website, it is by Mother, not father. I think for Canada it is either/or.

[Scootter]

Reba is right, you can apply for a UK Ancestry visa, and once granted indefinate leave at the end of your 4 years, and into your 5th, you can apply for a passport.

I just got my indefinate leave (yippee) on my 3rd type of visa, Ancestry (by virtue of my ex), work permit, then marriage. so next November I can make the trek to Liverpool and get my passport. just in time to move back to Canada.

[Duncan_BC]

You can get citizenship based on your mother. If you were born in 1961
or later, there is a UKM form that allows you to register as a UK
citizen. If you were born before this, you can get "right of abode".
This is nearly citizenship. You can later naturalize. If you were
born after 1978 or so, then you are automatically British based
on either your mother or father's British citizenship.
http://www.britishhighcommission.gov.uk ... 6750637785

[Duncan_BC]

You can get citizenship based on your mother. If you were born in 1961
or later, there is a UKM form that allows you to register as a UK
citizen. If you were born before this, you can get "right of abode".
This is nearly citizenship. You can later naturalize. If you were
born after 1978 or so, then you are automatically British based
on either your mother or father's British citizenship.

[stephaniehoffman]

What about my boyfriend who is a naturalized Canadian citizen born in Japan? What will the UK owe him? Would he be granted no more than if he entered the UK on his J-Passport, using his Canadian one?

He said that he may as well enter the UK with his J-Passport given the intense lineups to get the Canadian one. He said that to re-enter Canada, all he needs is his citizenship card. If he wants to work in the UK, that is granted to commonwealth nationals, all he has to do is show his canadian citizenship card with his J-Passport. Is this true? Or will he lose his Commonwealth priviledges enter the UK being unable to exercise his commonwealth rights having entered the UK as a Japanese national, arguing that he still used his Japanese passport to enter the UK, and thus be regarded only Japanese, and not Canadian in the UK? This meaning that he would have to register himself with the police where a Canadian doesnt? Or will the UK recognize him as being both?