So what does your Ancestral rights cover in the UK?

[yarrumsg]

more to the point are you covered to work in a British overseas territory???

i'm aware that you may have to still apply for a work visa, but can you still claim british citizenship... anyone k now??

[SpaRHawK]

dunno myself - but all the info is here:

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/

[zimajays]

My hubby and son are on ancestral and basically you are entitled to work in the UK (terrortries I dunno about) you have no recourse to public funds (can't claim the dole or any state benefit) you can apply for indefinate leave to remain after your 4 yr visa is up (only if you have been in the country the whole time. You are entitled to 'holiday time' I think it is 1 month per year, but that may have changed!) and then after 1 yr you can apply for citizenship.

Hope that helps

[FerrariSucks]

but before you can get citizenship you now also have to do a Britishness Test

[Angelshark]

They ask questions like-
1) Are you Asian?
2) Do you have a criminal record?
3) Do you have any affiliation to certain groups?
If the answer to these and more is yes, you get to skip the four year deal and head straight to the Dept. Of Naturalization Office.




N.B. A parody, NOT to be taken seriously.

[FerrariSucks]

hehehe, if only it was that easy

[Angelshark]

just start selling curry and rice or biryani on a street corner and the come let you fill in the forms there. I really pisses me off. My old man was a british citizen at the time of his death but do you think I can get the Brits to acknowledge that. Tried to get citizenship and get told to leg it. What the hell do they want?

[zimajays]

they also ask on the test if you would like the test to be done in any other language! AS where was your dad born?

[barto11]

the brithish govt is very stingy with giving out passports...my grandad worked for the foreign office, was even honoured by the empire, my dad was born inside brit embassy grounds, and because no-one can find marriage or divorce records for my grandparents, he cant get a passport...

btw ZJ, the ancestry holiday time is now something like 60 days a year...

[Angelshark]

My father was born in South Africa, but his mother and father and his grand parents were all British subjucts. I was born in Rhodesia and so were my sisters. When we were born he tried to put my mother and my sisters on his pp but the Brits said were born in a "rebel colony" so they refused to put us on. He renounced Brit citizenship after that. When Zim started its shit, he reapplied and got it back but we were still not entitled to it. One thing that really pisses me off is that they will give it to Nigerians and Pakis but not us.

[zimajays]

I have the same prob with my son. I am on a Brit passport coz my dad was born here in the uk. When we decided to come over I wanted to put my son on my passport and was told no he would have to apply for ancestral as my husband's dependant. So I had to sign away all legal rights which pissed me right off, but what can you do?

[yarrumsg]

:( so no one really knows : P oh well... i can wait till 2010...

thanks

[Edmonsta]

The short answer is no.

If you have British Ancestry, the only place you'd qualify to work/live on the basis of ancestry is Britain. You could apply for an ancestry visa then have to be settled in the UK for at least 5 years before being able to apply for citizenship (3 years is married to a Brit).

That's the short version - let me know if you need more help.

[zimajays]

The short answer is no.

If you have British Ancestry, the only place you'd qualify to work/live on the basis of ancestry is Britain. You could apply for an ancestry visa then have to be settled in the UK for at least 5 years before being able to apply for citizenship (3 years is married to a Brit).

That's the short version - let me know if you need more help.


3 yrs if married to a brit who was born in UK! Me I am a pom (got brit passport and have just voted) but that means diddly squat here! Chris and Ryan still have to wait 5 years!

[Edmonsta]

3 yrs if married to a brit who was born in UK! Me I am a pom (got brit passport and have just voted) but that means diddly squat here! Chris and Ryan still have to wait 5 years!

Sorry, should have been more specific, I did say it was the short version...

Brit spouse doesn't have to have been born in the UK though, just settled there for a certain amount of time. (for example, my wife - born in Aus, Brit passport, settled in the UK for 6 years... I qualified in 3... )

[Jamie]

just start selling curry and rice or biryani on a street corner and the come let you fill in the forms there. I really pisses me off. My old man was a british citizen at the time of his death but do you think I can get the Brits to acknowledge that. Tried to get citizenship and get told to leg it. What the hell do they want?

[pte7782]

Took me four years, to get indefinite leave to remain. I got married to a british passport holder in the third year. I then tried to speed up my citizenship, as I had already been here three years, and was in the army for some of that time. Was told that the best thing to do was not to even mention that I was married to British PP holder, as that might hinder my application. It would definitly take more time to process me. In the end I did my 4 years, got my indefinite, a year after that I had my Red book