child benefit

[telford]

i thought you can't have a child tax credit if your child is not british citizen even if the father is british. coz thats what the tax revenue told us. bcoz our daughter visa is no access to public funds. as if we dont know that lol.

I'm just curious why your daughter needs visa when the father is british? my daughter have british passport so she dont need visa anymore when she go there. as soon as the father is british, they can get british passport.

[Tiggers0608]

I'm just curious why your daughter needs visa when the father is british? my daughter have british passport so she dont need visa anymore when she go there. as soon as the father is british, they can get british passport.

hi telford, my daughter was born in the phils thats why she got a phil passort, thats why it says on the visa no access to public funds...

[Tiggers0608]

so tax credit and child benefit are not public funds, but how come the HM revenue and custom said we can't access to child benefit or child tax credit whatever it was lol

[telford]

hi telford, my daughter was born in the phils thats why she got a phil passort, thats why it says on the visa no access to public funds...

Tiggers my daughter is also born in Phils, and she got her british passport with the help of consul Moya Jackson in Cebu...

[Tiggers0608]

Tiggers my daughter is also born in Phils, and she got her british passport with the help of consul Moya Jackson in Cebu...

hi telford, ah so your daughter have her british passport before she went to UK, may daughter only have a phil passport bcoz at the UK embassy before we can't apply for british passport for her bcoz her dad wasn't there in person to fill up and sign the form.

i dont know if there's a way she can apply for a british citizen now that shes here or we have to wait for 2 years to do that ILR.

[telford]

hi telford, ah so your daughter have her british passport before she went to UK, may daughter only have a phil passport bcoz at the UK embassy before we can't apply for british passport for her bcoz her dad wasn't there in person to fill up and sign the form.

i dont know if there's a way she can apply for a british citizen now that shes here or we have to wait for 2 years to do that ILR.

as far as i remember, it doesnt matter if her dad is not around, as mother you can apply passport for her, you just submit the birth cert of the child bearing the name of the british dad, you also need to submit your marraige contract.
i think you can apply her british passport anytime as she is really a british citizen coz her dad is british.

[22pilgrim]

I'm just curious why your daughter needs visa when the father is british? my daughter have british passport so she dont need visa anymore when she go there. as soon as the father is british, they can get british passport.

(1) Just because a child has a British father does NOT always mean that the child is automatically a British citizen and can have a British passport. This also depends upon other factors such as where the child, father, and grandfather were born and the nationality of the mother.

(2) Link to the child benefit site is here:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/index.htm

(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.

Regards,

Nigel

[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.

[22pilgrim]

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.

No we did nt appeal because about a year after I took an expat job in Oz and then another in the Middle East. It was a long time ago when we first (unsuccessfully) applied and its quite possible the rules have changed over the years.
I wish we had appealed because due to a change in rules last year, mothers that stayed at home to raise a family AND who where in receipt of child allowance can have those years added to the qualifying years for a state pension.

Regards,

Nigel

[telford]

(1) Just because a child has a British father does NOT always mean that the child is automatically a British citizen and can have a British passport. This also depends upon other factors such as where the child, father, and grandfather were born and the nationality of the mother.

(2) Link to the child benefit site is here:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/index.htm

(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.

Regards,

Nigel

is this mean that my daughters situation is unusual since she's born here in Philippines and have a british father and a filipina mother and she got her passport her in Philippines? when we talk to consul jackson in cebu about her passport,she give us the requirements and after 15 working days we got our baby's british passport with no problem.

[telford]

My daughter now also have Philippine passport as well as her british passport because boss keith advise as to have it so that she dont need to pay her stay here as a british passport holder coz we been here in Philippines for more than a year now with her Father.

[Tiggers0608]

is this mean that my daughters situation is unusual since she's born here in Philippines and have a british father and a filipina mother and she got her passport her in Philippines? when we talk to consul jackson in cebu about her passport,she give us the requirements and after 15 working days we got our baby's british passport with no problem.

i think its not really unusual, but in manila, they're asking where the father is coz he needs to be there in person to fill in and sign the papers with other people as witness well thats what happen when we applied for it.

did you apply for your daughter to have a dual citizenship?

[telford]

i think its not really unusual, but in manila, they're asking where the father is coz he needs to be there in person to fill in and sign the papers with other people as witness well thats what happen when we applied for it.

did you apply for your daughter to have a dual citizenship?

i think as a child of a filipino/filipina thier entittled to get philippine passport, and that apply as well as a british child... no need to apply dual citizenship coz i got her passports without applying for it.