hi were going to be hopefully in the same position as you if my wife and stepdaughter are granted their indefinite leave to remain.our next step would be british passports for both of them aswell ,i also have looked in to ,the adoption of my step daughter it looks quite straight forward ,if you log on to gov.uk child adoption there are a full set of guidelines regarding all the requirements and fee etc ,the only difference between us is the fee differs between scotland ,and england ,we also will be looking at naturalisation for them both ,from what i can see in the form and guide notes mn1 its also a costly process ,673, for my stepdaughter and 874 for my wife ,plus we cant register untill my stepdaughter has resided here for two years as thats one of the requirments as she is over 13 years old ,the cost isnt a worry its just the stress we all have to go through ,we will have to wait another year before we could register them as part of a family registration as she has just been here over a year ,i have also been told by a friend that if you adopt then your daughter will have,automatic acquisation of british citizenship,therefor there would be no need to include her in your wifes application for naturalisation as she would already have british citizenship if your adoption was granted ,plus she would automatically take your sir name aswell ,and the bonus is so iv been told is it will only cost aroun 70 pounds to do this through your local authority, as for the dual citizen ship we will have to do that aswell but we are facing exactly the same difficulty as you ,total lack of help from the phills embassy ,were in the dark regarding this too ,if i hear anything that might help ill let you know