Passport renewal for children

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Is it me or are the passport office being extraordinarily vigilant by wanting my MIL's date of marriage for my daughter's passport? They also want her date of birth which I will find difficult enough to get out of her.

I've put in a form asking them to contact me (you can't phone them nowadays).

Previously I've not had to do any of these things for my dcs as their Dad is British born and bred and I am British bred (but not born). Is it because we are not married?

Bucharest, the 'mass' deportation was the Nationality Act 1981 which removed the right to citizenship for Commonwealth dependents. My mate's gran had to leave her son and grandchildren.

This article is very informative.

pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj68/brown.htm

Yes,I thought that was what you meant.

It didn't happen though. The Nationality Act of 81 gave Commonwealth cits (most of whom had also become citizens of their birth countries following independence as well as BS-CUKC (British Subject Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies-which was what all "Brits" were bar a few before BNA 81))the right to register themselves automatically as British Citizens (under the new act) because they didn't become BCs overnight as it were like British born Brits (IYSWIM?) There was a cut off date for these applications to be received. There was never any question of anyone who didn't want to apply being deported. They would just have stayed citizens of their native countries (which were now all independent). Due to misinformation and misunderstanding (and a hefty dose of media scaremongering- I remember at uni seeing the posters warning non-BritCit students they risked deportation) literally hundreds of thousands ofthese applications were made. The Nationality offices had to take on hundreds of extra staff to deal with the backlog.

It was handled badly- there were thousands of thousands of elderly commonwealth citizens who had lived in the UK for most of their working lives suddenly finding out they weren't British as they had always imagined but citizens of a country they no longer really had any great links to (and I don't doubt that in Thatcher's mind there was the nice little thught that maybe all these foreigners would bugger off back home) but there was no mass deportation.

Wrt to the by descent thing-I have a friend who was is BC-d and has never ever ever lived in the UK, yet flies over to have her babies there which irrationally irritates the bejaysus out of me. It's like Britain has never been good enough for her to live in, but when it suits....

What happened in the 80s was a removal of people's British c'ship and therefore some of them lost their leave to remain. That's a kind of deportation, I would have thought. It would cause a revolution if they tried it now.

I just remember mate saying her gran's visa had run out and she had to go. It was particularly sad because she was her main carer. Big Sister had to take over.