Laf4150

20 hours ago, Marcrobi said:

Hi. I applied for my daughters to get the citizenship. I got an email in a couple of weeks saying they were approved and I can apply for a passport using the reference given in the approval email. 
We had to apply for the certificate separately. This is still yet to come and has been about 2 months.

hope this helps

Thank you. Applied for my sons August 2020, citizenship was approved April 2021 and applied for his passport from the approval letter,  and that only took 10 days! Hoping the citizenship bit will be a bit quicker this time round.

7 hours ago, paulhand said:

You could do that, but will need a travel exemption as well. Given your timeline, it should be possible to arrange the citizenship and passport … the High Commission seem to be processing  relatively smoothly at the moment. 

Thank you, fingers crossed things are moving a bit quicker than when I applied for my sons.

We are due to be moving to Australia in January, and we aren’t sure the best way for our daughter born in June to enter. It took 8 months for our sons citizenship via descent to come through and so don’t expect to be able to get daughters in time. (Not helped by the fact there had been such a delay in registering her birth!) we’re going to get a British passport for her, but not sure what visa is best to get to enter Australia whilst we wait for her citizenship to come through. Do we just get an e visa? What would happen if she didn’t have her citizenship through before that runs out? Is there a better visa to go for? Any recommendations of who to speak to? Any advise would be gratefully received TIA

15 hours ago, vongole83 said:

Hi Laf4150,

Yes exactly this. We only managed to get the Citizenship by Descent cert before we flew (He also had a UK passport). No additional paperwork.

We called both the helpline in Australia and the Consulate in London. Both advised us of the same thing. It's called 'Undocumented Uplift'. (https://uk.embassy.gov.au/lhlh/PassportsWelcomePage.html)

We also rang Etihad about a week before our flight and advised them of the same an they seemed fine with it on the phone.

At the airport we just took his passport and cert (They didn't even want to see his cert) and I believe they called Aus immigration to check his status. It took about half an hour in total so arrive at the airport in plenty of time. 

In Melbourne we had to go to a special desk where, again I think they rang or verified that he was a citizen. 

Bear in mind the process might change again between now and when you fly, but this worked for us!

Thank you for this really appreciate your help. Hoping that things won’t take as long with our daughter with COVID things now settling slightly but it’s really good to know.

Hope your quarantine goes quick and all the best with your new life down under! 

On 25/05/2021 at 16:07, vongole83 said:

Update: We landed in Melbourne earlier this evening with the little one not having an Aussie passport (Citizenship by descent). It took Etihad about 30 mins to sort it all out in London and a bit more admin at immigration in Melbourne, but all fine in the end!

Day 1 of 14 in the Novotel starts now!

Hi, can you explain a little more about how you managed this. Was this just with uk passport and citizenship via decent certificate? Or did you have additional paperwork? I think I could possibly be in a similar situation at the start of next year. Due to be emigrating early 2022, Partner and son are Australian with Aussie passports but expecting daughter next month, and after sons citizenship and passport took 10 months total I don’t think we will get them in time! TIA