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| Re: No Birth Certificate - Any advice, please?
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Posted on: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:43:42 +0000 (UTC)
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Jessica Stooke wrote:
> Hi Gill,
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> You should at least do some research into getting a birth certificate.
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> You can contact the Sri Lankan embassy / high commission and see if
> birth certificates for that time are available and if so what the
> procedure is.
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> You should also contact the British High Commission in Colombo to see
> if they registered births of British Citizens in the 1920s --
> http://tinyurl.com/gvyc9.
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> This will strengthen your arguments that a birth certificate isn't
> available.
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> Best of luck.
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> --
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> Posted via http://www.mymigration.net
Hi Jessica and Tony
Very many thanks to both of you for your very helpful replies.
Tony - I've never heard of the office in Sri Lanka that you sent me a
link to. I'll try e-mailing them tonight and I'll ring them either in
the wee small hours tonight or tomorrow night.
I'm tempted to be very sarcastic in the stat dec as well! If Blighty
accepts that my mother is British and gave her one of their passports,
that is good enough for any other Commonwealth country, I would have
thought. One of Mum's sisters lives in Melbourne. She got a Parent
visa about 20 years ago, I believe, to join her own two children out
there. At any rate - I don't know what sort of visa it was but it made
her a Permanent Resident of Australia. (I know that my aunt is now an
Australian citizen, so I might suggest to my own sister that she rings
Cousin Yvonne in Melbourne to find out how they dealt with this
question for Aunt Connie when she migrated to Australia.)
I'm also doing battle with Form 80 this evening. Completely OTT for an
old dear of almost 86, especially since her UK and Australian police
clearances are both squeaky-clean. I'm tempted to be truly sarcastic
in that!
Jessica - thanks very much for your suggestions as well. I got as far
as e-mailing the Sri Lanka High Commission in London this afternoon,
but I didn't think of trying the British High Commission in Colombo as
well. I'll do that too. As you say, if we can prove that there was
nobody to register Mum's birth out there in those days, that will
clinch it with DIMA.
I'll ring the overseas births section of the General Register Office in
the UK tomorrow as well. I was born in Malaysia but Mum & Dad
registered my birth with the British High Commission in KL as well as
with the Malaysian authorities. When I needed a copy of my birth cert a
few years ago (after I lost my passport and didn't know its number) the
GRO supplied me with my British Birth Cert with no hassle, which saved
having to get the Malaysian one translated and notarised. The GRO
might know what the practice was in Sri Lanka in 1920 - or be able to
find out.
I wasn't xpecting this nonsense about why Mum hasn't got a birth cert.
I thought her British passport would do on its own. Otherwise I'd have
sorted this out months ago while we waited to hear from her CO. Ya
live & learn, I suppose!
Thanks very much again to you both.
Kind regards
Gill
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