Riven - that sounds awful. My DS has dual nationality because he was born in the US, although both DH and I are British. His US passport (which I got when we lived there) expired and I keep putting off renewing it, as it seems such a palaver. We are in Scotland and you can do it in Edinburgh but there still seems to be a huge number of bureaucratic dos and don't.

Ooops, sorry for the hijack.

OP - hope you're feeling better about things.

I'm wigth little ducks but I think my dh has enough docs to get our dc his nationality without me.

I'm a little nervous.

I'm UK, ds is UK, DH isn't but has other european nationality but from a place where I'd have very few rights as a non-national.

I also hold my maiden name, ds has dh name so I need to ensure I link myself to my lovely little one.

With the arrival of DS1 I had finally caved in and gone down the double-barrelled route for my last name, so DCs' last name would at least feature in mine. I am married to their father as it happens, however have never officially changed my name until the whole issue with travelling arose.

Brangelina, I have had the same problem because my passport (french) was at maiden name so it was different from my dcs.
In a strange way, it has only caused problem on the way out from france (with the dcs having an UK passport - so much easier to get than the french one. We too have to go to the ambassy now [grr]).
But I have had no problem since I have updated my own passport.

DD has a different id card to me as she doesn't qualify for British nationality (or would have done if I'd had the correct info from the consulate in time, but that's another story...). What's worse is that she can go on DP's passport but could never go on mine, although that's never going to happen as I'd rather she had her own.

It's a pain as we always get the third degree at UK immigration and I always have to carry a copy of DD's birth certificate with me to prove that yes, I am her mother and not a child trafficker.

hasn't accried enough time

They gave us hell when we went to get the permanent residents visa. While DH is American he had acrued enough time in the US to pass on his nationality. So we had to go the permanent resident route (he couldn't get a work visa for us to travel on as he's American).
Be there at 8am
Wait with fractious children 3 hours. All of us interviewed and the children asked if they plan to commit acts of terror/sexual deviency etc. They were 9, 8 and 6.
Sent to medical place and offered 32 vaccinations to fulfil criteria all at the same time. Like thats safe.
Back to embasyy where after further 3 hour wait we were turned down. The staff member was rude, inconsiderate, failed to tell us you can apply for a waiver of the vaccination requirements and left us in tears knowing dh was leaving for the US 4 days later and we couldn't follow.
Its was awful. We (and dh) were treated like dirt or foreign scum.
(same thing happnend with the INS when we arrived with our visas in DC. The INS are complete tossers)

I thought they were quite nice. We were in and out in 45 minutes, one of the Marines carried DDs buggy up the steps (please move the gun away from my DDs face, Sir!) and the Consular officer gave me a cup of coffee.

Then again, I did have an Epipen

I have friends who is french and has french passport, her DH has an english passport and their DS has a NZ passport, however if they have any more DC"s they will have joint english/french passports as the law has changed recently in NZ.

The London Embassy is awful. Rude staff and they make you wait for hours. They treat you like dirt.