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[Tinypod]

Hi. Sorry for posting on here, just wondering if anyone can shed some light.

I'm trying to get my first passport and I have my fathers bc but no marriage certificate as he was never married to my mum.

I dont have my mums bc and I dont have her details to buy one.

Does anyone know where I go from here. So confused.

You should be able to buy a copy of your mums online from gro.gov.uk. You just need to search her name, birthquarter, location.

Your mum’s details should be on your birth certificate? Enough so you can order her birth certificate? Unless she was not British?

I recently applied for my first passport and ordered both bc online. I didn’t need a marriage certificate.

You can order certificates online. DH recently had to do this as needed MILs birth certificate & marriage certificate for probate. Was fairly simple & they arrived in a few days. He also had limited details but managed to use those & search registers online.

Also I’m sure I only needed to send one parents bc off.

I don’t think that a British father had to be married to a nonBritish woman for the child to be British has applied past 1983…that would have been only time you needed a marriage certificate.

Fuzzy on this as the citizenship laws change often, but I am sure that being ‘illegitimate’ isn’t a barrier anymore.

I've just dug it out. Only her name. No dob or location

No you need it if you are only supplying a father's bc

Is your dad british and does he have a British passport?
If so, he can pass british citizenship to you which his birth certificate or passport number can prove

Unless it is a really common name try freebmd for location and dob

You'd be best to phone the passport helpline and see what they advise

Same. I'm sure this must be a not uncommon thing, there must be provision for it.

Is it your long birth certificate you are looking at? You get long and short versions and the long one has more details on it

@Tinypod were you born before or after 1st July 2006? Apparently, if you were born after this date then you can get british citizenship through your dad even if he was unmarried at the time of your birth (I'm assuming he is british)