There are several ways to obtain British citizenship, depending on your personal circumstances.
By birth in the UK
British citizenship can be acquired automatically, by operation of law, at birth. This is the case for children born in the UK and who have at the time of their birth at least one parent who is settled in the UK (with settled status or indefinite leave to remain) or a British citizen.
In this case, the child does not have to be registered as a British citizen, as citizenship does not have to be applied for, but is already acquired automatically, by effect of law, at birth. What must be done in such circumstances is to request the issuance of a British passport, a document proving the citizenship already acquired.
If you want to get a British passport for a child who became a British citizen by law, at birth, contact me at 07492525115 (leave me a text message or write to me on WhatsApp if I can’t answer) or send me an email at sorin@muflic.uk or a message on Messenger (search for my Facebook profile, Sorin Muflic).
My service is £500, plus the £49 application fee.
By registration
Registration as a British citizen is for children born in the UK who did not automatically, by operation of law, become British citizen at birth, because at that time neither parent was settled in the UK or a British citizen.
A child under 18 born in the UK who had not automatically acquired citizenship by law at birth may subsequently be registered as a British citizen once one of the parents becomes a British citizen or is given permission to remain permanently in the United Kingdom (is granted settled status or indefinite leave to remain).
However, if neither parent becomes a British citizen or gets indefinite leave to remain, the UK-born child aged under 18 may be registered as a British citizen after having lived in the UK for at least 10 years (up to the age of 10 years or more).
If you would like to register a child as a British citizen, please contact me on 07492525115 (leave me a text message or write me on WhatsApp if I can’t answer) or send me an email at sorin@muflic.uk or a message on Messenger (search my Facebook profile, Sorin Muflic).
My service is £500, plus the fee for processing the application, £1,012 at the time of writing. There are other fees too, one of £19.20 to have the biometric information (fingerprints, photo) taken, and another of £80, payable by those who become adults before the completion of the process, for the citizenship ceremony.
By naturalisation
Naturalisation is the process by which a non-British adult becomes a British citizen.
The applicant must usually have settled status or indefinite leave to remain for at least 12 months prior to the date of the application. This means that the application for naturalisation can be usually submitted 6 years after immigrating to the UK (5 years for obtaining settled status / indefinite leave to remain + 1 year being free from immigration restrictions).
The person wishing to naturalise must have been physically present in the United Kingdom exactly 5 years before the date of application. Also, they must not have been absent from the UK for more than 450 days in the 5 years prior to the application date and for more than 90 days in the 12 months prior to the application date.
The applicant must not have been in breach the immigration rules in the UK in the 5 years prior to the date of application, and must have sufficient knowledge of the English language and about life in the UK (must have passed the “Life in the UK Test”).
The applicant must intend to make the UK a permanent home, except for those married to a British citizen (who will also have the above 5-year terms reduced to 3 and who will not have to wait 12 months from the date they are granted settled status or indefinite leave to remain to be able to apply).
Finally, the applicant must also meet the requirement to be of “good character”, which refers either to the absence of convictions in the criminal record, or to the passage of a long period from the expiration of the last sentence. It also refers to not being in breach of immigration laws in the last 10 years prior to the application.
If you want to naturalise as a British citizen, contact me on 07492525115 (leave me a text message or write to me on WhatsApp if I can’t answer) or send me an email at sorin@muflic.uk or a message on Messenger (search on Facebook my profile, Sorin Muflic).
My service is £500, plus the fee for processing the application, £1,330 at the time of writing. There are other fees too, one of £19.20 to have the biometric information (fingerprints, photo) taken, and another of £80 for the citizenship ceremony.