Passport for Newborns

[iantojjackh]

The story is set in modern times.
Main character is a British citizen; born and raised. Also he was born after Jan. 1 1983.   He has lived his whole life in the UK except for the last three, almost four years. Spent one year travelling the world travelling and the rest of the time was spent in the US. In that time character got married and had

Comments

[philomytha]

The children are both British and American citizens by birth and blood, and there shouldn't be any difficulty at all in the father getting them a British passport. He just needs to register the births with the British Consul to get them British birth certificates and then apply for passports just like for any other British citizen. Since the mother is dead, there will be no issue with him taking them out of the US (it would be harder to take them out of the US if their mother was alive and objected to him taking them, and as she is a US citizen and the father is not, a US court would normally rule in her favour). There's no need for any fancy diplomatic/royal connections: I'm an ordinary person, my dad is English and I was born in the US and I've held both passports since birth. I'm not sure it would be possible for him to avoid the children also having US citizenship, since they will presumably also have had their births registered in the usual way in the US. Holding both citizenships is perfectly possible, if occasionally inconvenient. I'm not sure whether the children will need both passports to travel to the UK - American citizens are not allowed to enter the US on anything other than a US passport, but I don't know about exiting.