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Many thank AwdAmr! Very reassuring.

Hi all, Have you recently applied for a child's 1st UK passport from abroad? If so, can you share your experience in particularly, how long it took from submitting the documents to having the passport in your hand? My wife is expecting a baby in February next year. We want to travel back to the UK ASAP after the birth but obviously we need to wait until the new child's passport arrives. I'm trying to get a feel for how long this will take from people who have actually gone through the process. I've already spoken with the UK passport office and every time I get a different answer ranging from 4 to 14 weeks!

Thanks for sharing your experience anémiais. That’s reassuring.

Thanks for all your replies. My wife and I are both dual citizens (AU & UK) so the child will automatically have both Australian and British citizenship at birth. I will as you say get a copy of their Australian citizenship certificate. Ultimately I will get the child a British passport, the question is simply if we do it before we return, or after in order that we can return sooner. My fear is that the UK passport will take a long time. We already have one child and when I applied for their British passport back in 2021 it took 4 months which is a lot longer than advertised / a lot longer than it takes to get an AU passport. If anyone has recently applied for a British child passport from overseas can you tell me how long the application took? Also, if anyone has brought their child into the UK on a foreign passport, then applied for a British passport after you’ve returned I’d love to hear your experience. Thank you!

Hi, My wife and I are British expats living in Sydney Australia. We are having a baby next year, after which we plan to return to the UK. The child will automatically be a UK citizen by descent. I'm trying to work out if I should... Apply for a UK passport for my child before travelling back, and enter the UK with all 3 of us on British passports Apply for an AU passport (which is faster) and then enter the UK with the child on an AU passport, and my wife and I using our British passports My thinking is that it is faster and easier to get an AU passport for my child therefore we can move home sooner after the birth. Google however leads me to believe that entering the UK with an AU child passport may create complications at border patrol. It also may prevent the child from being able to access the NHS healthcare system. Does anyone have experience of this / advice that they can share? Thank you in advance.