I am a Pakistani national living in Pakistan . My husband is British citizen by birth.He has been living in Pakistan for the last 4 years. We have a 8 months old son now who is naturally British as his father is a British citizen. We have applied for his registration at British high commission here in Islamabad . We have received a letter from them also saying that my son s registration will be done as soon as possible. Now the matter is that I have been offered a place at Leicester University for MSC economics. Its a 9 months course.I want to take my son with myself. As his registration is still in process, Can i take him to UK on his Pakistani passport as my dependent. I ll apply for a general student visa (Tier 4 ). Will I have to show separate funds for my son although he is a British child. I intend to go to UK in Sept and hopefully his registration will be done by Oct-Nov.
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You should contact the Visa section of the High Commission for advice, Yahoo Answers is really not the best place to ask for guidance on a complicated issue like this one. You can check out the UK Border Agency site for the general guidance but it does not seem to provide the answer to your specific question. Perhaps the inquiry will persuade the High Commission to escalate the registration process.
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Your son is automatically a British citizen by descent as his father is a British citizen by birth, so the registration of his birth in Pakistan does not affect his right to citizenship. You can apply for a British passport for your son, but the difference is that you will need to include his father's original birth certificate with your son's birth certificate. If you wait for registration, you will only need his birth cert and his registration document as that is sufficient to prove his nationality. If you brought him to the UK as your dependent, you would have to show maintenance funds for him, which you won't have to do if he enters the UK as a British citizen. The amount would be £3,600. Having said all this, I have just checked the Foreign Office website and it says that currently first time passport applications in Pakistan are taking between seven to eight months, so you may have to take your son to the UK as your dependent and apply for his UK passport from the UK. You could try contacting the British Commission in Islamabad to see if they would issue an emergency travel document. This would cut through the necessity of applying for him as your dependent and also make it more straightforward to get his British passport once you are in the UK. If you can't get an emergency passport, you will need to bring all the paperwork with you and you will also need your husband's permission to apply for your son's passport. You should also wait until you receive the registration certificate and submit that along with his Pakistani passport as that is the passport he entered the UK with. http://ukinpakistan.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/passports/apply-in-pakistan http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Passports/Applyingforaneworrenewedchildpassport/DG_174107
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