sv wrote:
> Hi Gill,
>
> Congratulations.
> Good to know that your mother's case has progressed and is nearing
> conclusion.
>
> Regards,
> Sanjay
Hi Sanjay
Thanks very much for your good wishes. How are you getting on with
your father's application? He was still putting his documents together
last time you and I spoke.) That's another joyful job in this wretched
game!
Sanjay, I know you are from India, but it is just possible that you
might be able to help me out with this query:
My Mum was born in Sri Lanka in 1920. Her father was a British
tea-planter out there. Her mother was also British but born in India.
My great-grandfather planted either tea or coffee in India (not sure
which) and he was Scottish, born in Scotland. I guess the planters
married their daughters off to other planters or something!
Anyhow, Mum and her sibings all say that their births were never
registered anywhere, none of them have birth certificates and none of
them know why. DIMA want a statutory declaration from my mother,
giving the full names, dates of birth and nationalites of both of her
parents. We have a copy of my grandfather's birth certificate, because
he was borm in England, so we are OK on his details. Mum and her
siblings say that Mum's mother never had a birth certificate because
they didn't exist in India in 1887 when she was born there. Is that
right, do you reckon?
Do you think it may have been similar in Sri Lanka in 1920 and that
there simply wasn't a system for registering births out there then? I
started a thread about it earlier and two migration agents have very
kindly given me some really good clues about people to ask, but you
might have some good ideas about this too, I imagine. (Also, expect
similar hassle if your father hasn't got a birth cert, I suppose!)
Thanks very much
Gill
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