I was asked to write a blog about the steps of baby registration and passport in the UK.
1st thing you need to know is registering your baby is related to the area where you gave birth. Each area has it's own local register office. Whether you gave birth at home or a birth centre or a hospital. The midwives work out the paper work for you, and give you the registration papers that you take to your local register office.
Most offices require an appointment, some don't. So once you decide where you are gonna give birth, you must entre the website of your local office and know whether they take apportionments or not.
Once you get your appointment, you go to the office with the papers that the hospital gave you and register your baby. You don't need the baby with you. If you are not married to the baby's father, he has to be with you in order for his name to be listed as the father in the certificate, if he is not there, he will not be listed at the moment but this can be changed later. However, if you are married, you take the marriage certificate with you and you list him as the father. Please note that, listing the father in the birth certificate is different than naming the baby, meaning you can name your baby with the father's last name even if he is not listed as the father.
If your local office doesn't require an appointment, it's a good idea to wait for a couple of days before you go, just to give time for the baby's information to be uploaded on the system. All you need to bring with you is your passport, same for the father and the registration papers.
Once you get the certificate, you can apply for the passport.
An important note, for a baby who is born in the UK to get a British passport, at least one of the parents should have a British passport. This is not the states, where any baby born in the states can apply for the american passport even if both parents are foreigners. Cause some people mix things up. So the steps I am gonna discuss now is related to that. If your baby is not applicable for a British passport, then you should go back to your country embassy in the UK.
There are 3 types of passport application in the UK, the regular application that's done either online or via post and the passport takes about 3 weeks to be delivered to your home.
The one week fast track and the 1 day application. The one day application can't be done for the 1st passports.
So the remaining options is either the regular or the one week. I personally applied for the one week. But this can't be done by regular post, this requires an appointment. You call the passport advice line and book the closest appointment you can find, I couldn't find a close appointment compatible with the time of my flight in the London office, so I booked the closest one I could find which was in Liverpool. You go and deliver the application in person, and it takes exactly six days to be delivered to you. My apportionment was on Friday and the passport came the Thursday after. I payed extra 3 pounds for secure delivery. So the passport was handed to me in person with ID checking and a signature.
That's it :) I hope that was helpful :)
1st thing you need to know is registering your baby is related to the area where you gave birth. Each area has it's own local register office. Whether you gave birth at home or a birth centre or a hospital. The midwives work out the paper work for you, and give you the registration papers that you take to your local register office.
Most offices require an appointment, some don't. So once you decide where you are gonna give birth, you must entre the website of your local office and know whether they take apportionments or not.
Once you get your appointment, you go to the office with the papers that the hospital gave you and register your baby. You don't need the baby with you. If you are not married to the baby's father, he has to be with you in order for his name to be listed as the father in the certificate, if he is not there, he will not be listed at the moment but this can be changed later. However, if you are married, you take the marriage certificate with you and you list him as the father. Please note that, listing the father in the birth certificate is different than naming the baby, meaning you can name your baby with the father's last name even if he is not listed as the father.
If your local office doesn't require an appointment, it's a good idea to wait for a couple of days before you go, just to give time for the baby's information to be uploaded on the system. All you need to bring with you is your passport, same for the father and the registration papers.
Once you get the certificate, you can apply for the passport.
There are 3 types of passport application in the UK, the regular application that's done either online or via post and the passport takes about 3 weeks to be delivered to your home.
The one week fast track and the 1 day application. The one day application can't be done for the 1st passports.
So the remaining options is either the regular or the one week. I personally applied for the one week. But this can't be done by regular post, this requires an appointment. You call the passport advice line and book the closest appointment you can find, I couldn't find a close appointment compatible with the time of my flight in the London office, so I booked the closest one I could find which was in Liverpool. You go and deliver the application in person, and it takes exactly six days to be delivered to you. My apportionment was on Friday and the passport came the Thursday after. I payed extra 3 pounds for secure delivery. So the passport was handed to me in person with ID checking and a signature.
That's it :) I hope that was helpful :)
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