............Advice needed on British/Canadian dual nationality.................

[willywonkasEgghunt]

Dh is Canadian and has lived in UK for 20+ years on a permanent residency visa. We've been together for 15yrs (married for 6). Now we have dd, we feel it would be a good idea for each other & dd to obtain dual nationality so that we are all in the same boat legally, particularly in the event that one of us should die.

Are there any MNers with legal or personal experience of how we go about this? Indeed, is it possible to gain Canadian nationality when we currently have no medium or long term plans to emigrate?

Also, are there any down sides to dual nationality that we may not have considered?

Thanks in advance (eh?)

your dd can obtain Cdn citizenship and then get a passport, but you can't unless you are living there
lots of info on the website (Canadian Embassy one in London, don't know what it is exactly) you can download all the forms you need to first apply for citizenship, once you have those papers, you can then apply for a passport. I'm waiting just now for my dds citizenship things to come through, I am Cdn but they were all born here.
On the flip side, I have no interest in becoming a UK citizen or having a UK passport!

Dh can't wait to get the British stuff through, he's more of an anglophile than I am!! That said, I'm hoping he'll be made to go through one of those awful ceremonies because it would kill him to have to swear any allegiance to the Queen .

Be disappointing if I have to be left out cos, as I say, it's really a fallback should something happen to either me or dh that would enable the surviving partner to live with dd in whichever country is thought to offer the most, which in a single parent scenario, could just as easily be over there.