Brexit Britain finally starts cracking down on non-EU migrants

[BlasterBates]

Alarm bells should have been ringing after his application for a British passport was declined - it might have been advisable to question that decision rather than apply for (and be accepted) for an Australian passport.

Why should the citizenship of the father only be a consideration if he is married to the mother?

rules are rules, probably because when proving someone is a Father when not married would consume huge amounts of time in legal wrangles. Everything they need should be on the birth certificate or marriage certificate.

[northernladyuk]

rules are rules, probably because when proving someone is a Father when not married would consume huge amounts of time in legal wrangles. Everything they need should be on the birth certificate or marriage certificate.

But then you need to step back from the rules and apply some discretion to state that this lad has always been a British citizen. It needs a dose of common sense and humanity.

[NotAllThere]

It needs a dose of common sense and humanity.

Well, that's him ****ed.

[SueEllen]

rules are rules, probably because when proving someone is a Father when not married would consume huge amounts of time in legal wrangles. Everything they need should be on the birth certificate or marriage certificate.

The father is on the birth certificate.

The rules randomly change.

[BlasterBates]

The father is on the birth certificate.

The rules randomly change.

https://theparentconnection.org.uk/a...arried-couples

Birth certificates are required to have the details of the biological mother and - where possible - the details of the biological father.

[meridian]

Don't know why his drivers licence was revoked. Swapped over my non-EU licence for a UK one with no questions asked about my immigration status.

[OwlHoot]

Interesting, made the mistake of applying for a passport, they checked his birth certificate and his mother was Australian.

Oh dear.

I'm sure something very similar has happened before. Each time a crackdown on non-EU immigration is implemented, Home Office officials spitefully and vindictively pick on some British-born Aussie, with British parents, to try and show up the government and thwart their wishes.

What's needed is a good top-to-bottom clean out at the Home Office immigration department itself (unless of course the Government is complicit in it and is happy itself if curbs on non-EU immigration are discredited this way)

[northernladyuk]

I'm sure something very similar has happened before. Each time a crackdown on non-EU immigration is implemented, Home Office officials spitefully and vindictively pick on some British-born Aussie, with British parents, to try and show up the government and thwart their wishes.

What's needed is a good top-to-bottom clean out at the Home Office immigration department itself (unless of course the Government is complicit in it and is happy itself if curbs on non-EU immigration are discredited this way)

So which categories of non-British citizens illegally present in the UK do you think should be allowed to remain?

[SueEllen]

https://theparentconnection.org.uk/a...arried-couples

I read his story in The Guardian. He made it clear his father was on his birth certificate as apparently after his birth his father went with his mother to register it.

At the time he was born fathers didn't have automatic parental responsibility.

[The_Equalizer]

I read his story in The Guardian. He made it clear his father was on his birth certificate as apparently after his birth his father went with his mother to register it.

At the time he was born fathers didn't have automatic parental responsibility.

That's one up on Ed Miliband's eldest if nothing else.