child benefit

[KeithD]

(3) In spite of the fact that my eldest son was born in the UK (British father / Filipina mother), my wife was not allowed to claim child benefit for roughly 10 years.

Did you appeal, or reply apply every year, as you can claim child benefit even if the kid was in the Philippines, they do not check where the child is!! Hence 1,000's of Europeans doing it that way.

Where the mother comes from is irrelevant, the benefit is to pay towards the upbringing of a child in the UK.