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Q: Has anyone applied for a British passport for their child?
If so, can you tell me what you needed?
If the child is born in China to Chinese/British parentage you should have done the " secret" registration thing at the UK consulate as soon as you get the Chinese birth certificate. It gets his/her name in the UK books. Not sure the paperwork goes to Sommerset house though, or whatever it's called these days.
That's what I done. It cost's about 1800RMB from memory.
If your child is registered Chinese, then you need to go to the UK consulate to apply for UK citizenship. Once the child is registered as British he/she instantly becomes an illegal alien. So you need to get an emergency exit passport from the consulate, then head to the PSB to get an emergency exit visa. At the same time, your wife will have to rescind the child's Chinese Citizenship. I think you need to go to a different office to do that. The consulate will be able to guide you through all the steps. It's not too different from an adult losing their passport. Apart from the giving up Chinese citizenship bit of course.
Then it's get out of Dodge time. Back to UK, get the child a passport, and if you want to come back here, a visa too.
I would think carefully about doing this though. There is no gaureentee your wife will get a UK settlement visa. Especially given the anti immigration rhetoric in the UK press recently.
And if you do come back with the child, state schools are no longer an option. You will need to pay international school fees. Ouch.
My plan is to have my child stay Chinese till she is old enough to decide for herself what she wants. If I have to go back to the UK because of work, I would prefer my daughter stays here with her mum and family. I would rather be a "work away dad" than have my daughter miss growing up here.
Then again, I might change my mind about that very soon 
Scandinavian:
so you want you daughter to both grow up in one of the worlds most polluted places without a dad than to have her and your wife live in a safer environment ?
ScotsAlan:
As I said, I might feel differently tomorrow 
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It can't be all that bad though can it. I met a woman here I wanted to marry. She is a product of this country and is smart. So the education system can't be all that bad.
I would prefer my daughter to be surrounded with a loving family taking care of her rather than head to the UK and have to drop her off at a child minders because her mum and I would both need to work to pay the rent.
I don't have extended family back home. If I had to go back to the UK I would want to keep paying the mortgage here, so I have somewhere to retire to and my daughter had somewhere to call her own.
But........ my wife might disagree with me 
mike168229:
Thanks for your answer Alan but its not quite what I was looking for. Maybe I should have been clearer. I was looking for what documents are needed from myself and the wife to apply.
Mattbaker:
So, if I have read this correctly, if you have a child in China and you move back to the U.K you can't send them to a state school?
Do you have references for this? Where did you find out this information?
