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The term your looking for is citizenship by “triple descent” (double descent is that your grandparent was a UK citizen but not your parent) and triple descent is a very rare and complicated method to get uk citizenship. One of the requirements is that you are 17 years or less, so that might exclude you immediately.
a) family based immigration (e.g. marry someone from the UK and meet the UK's financial requirements; or you have a parent that's a UK citizen & can therefore obtain a UK passport); or, b) employment based immigration (you are eligible for a Skilled Worker visa AND can find an employer willing to sponsor you).
Children who are under the age of 18 may be eligible for British citizenship by descent. A person born before the 1st of January 1949. A person born after the 1st of January 1949. - My paternal grandmother was born in the UK (and all of her family before her). - My paternal grandfather was born in South Africa but to UK parents.
Rodney_Angles. • 3 yr. ago. Your grandmother would not have passed her British citizenship down to her children under the rules at the time. Under the 2014 proposals, Scottish citizenship by descent would be granted to only British citizens. So basically, you would not qualify. 1. [deleted] • 3 yr. ago. Hopefully Scotland does bring in an ...
My Grandfather was born in Scotland and immigrated to the United States in his 20s. My Mother was born in the United States and is in the process of acquiring Scottish citizenship.
Don't count on that happening, unfortunately. Even if Scotland left the UK we're looking at 10 years to join the EU. The process is long. Luckily if you claim UK citizenship there is talk of having a bespoke system for UK-EU movement in future. The Immigration Minister has said as much.
Yes. As a person with a Scottish parent you automatically have indefinite leave to remain in the U.K. and can apply for citizenship. It costs quite a bit of money (around £1000 I believe) and you have to undertake a “life in the U.K. test”. There may be other criteria too ( info here )
Plorkerplorp. •. Sweden follows Lex Sanguine (the law of blood, roughly translated) meaning that you need to be born of Swedish mother/father to be born Swedish. Sounds to me like you're not, but rather your father might be. I haven't looked this up in particular, because I would have to charge you for my time.
There was a change to immigration law that eliminated the ability to claim double or triple descent. We looked this up in my husbands case who also has a UK born great grandparent. As it was explained to us - a great grandparent actually comes under triple descent. Thats only allowed if you were born before 1983, you great-grandparent was a UK ...
My Mother is Scottish, along with her mother. I was born in australia in 1999 when she was an australian citizen. my mother no longer has a british citizenship (and didn’t when I was born) as she moved to aus when she was young. My grandmother still has hers but is in the process of becoming an Australian citizen. Do I have a claim to ...