Hi All,
Great forum here, Id appreciate it if someone could answer this question as I know there are some experts here:
I have a somewhat interesting situation. Both my parents are from Africa, and originally were given British Passports (they were from Kenya (Dad) and Tanzania (Mum). Something to do with the colonies they were from qualified for British citizenship way back (were talking the 60s). My mom believes she had to give up her British Passport when they chose to come to Canada, we don't know where the passport exists anymore (likely destroyed if this was the case). My dad still has his, expired from many years ago. I took a look at it and it says it was issued in 1974 (unclear if there were others before it), and it says "BRITISH SUBJECT - CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES". I've done some research about this, and from my understanding the British Subject was sort of given to people by default and the idea was that they find citizenship elsewhere and their British Subject status is then invalidated. Also, I read some things about this isn't possible to be passed down to children. I was born after 1983.
We are currently Canadian citizens.
Is there any chance?
Cheers
Great forum here, Id appreciate it if someone could answer this question as I know there are some experts here:
I have a somewhat interesting situation. Both my parents are from Africa, and originally were given British Passports (they were from Kenya (Dad) and Tanzania (Mum). Something to do with the colonies they were from qualified for British citizenship way back (were talking the 60s). My mom believes she had to give up her British Passport when they chose to come to Canada, we don't know where the passport exists anymore (likely destroyed if this was the case). My dad still has his, expired from many years ago. I took a look at it and it says it was issued in 1974 (unclear if there were others before it), and it says "BRITISH SUBJECT - CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES". I've done some research about this, and from my understanding the British Subject was sort of given to people by default and the idea was that they find citizenship elsewhere and their British Subject status is then invalidated. Also, I read some things about this isn't possible to be passed down to children. I was born after 1983.
We are currently Canadian citizens.
Is there any chance?
Cheers