British Passport

Trying to get one, internet hasn't been terriley useful for me.

Me dad was an Englishman and it is to my understanding that is a prequisite to being entitle to one? 

Any help or pointing to direction of ight would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/britishcitizenship/othernationality/Britishcitizenship/bornoverseas/

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Right, that makes total sense, I totally missed that part.

Am trying to navigate my way to finding the right papers and what not to actually apply for one now, thats the tricky part mesthinks. 

Sort of waiting for a spam bot to offer me some lucrative offer to work/live/stay overseas somewhere and sell guns to children.

I went through this a few years back, scary what information they require. Parents birth certificates, wedding certificates, passports - all originals they wouldn't accept verified copies.

Bounced back a couple of times for various "you didn't dot the I's and cross the T's" reasons but got there in the end.

Best of luck, and make sure you go with a courier rather than regular post.

They keep changing the rules. Some years ago, if you did not apply for a British passport(through your parents) before you were 21 years old you missed out. Don't know if that still applies.

Got mine, and travelling on it at the mo. Got it because Dad was born in England, the olds were married when they had me, Dad was a British citizen when they had me, and still is- the last part is the only part I'm not sure is a 'need' or not.

Make sure you have all the required documentation, and it's all original. once you wade through the documentation, it's really fast.

Very useful when going through immigration queues in the EU, not so useful when going to Argentina and wearing your "We sank the Argie boat General Belgrano" t-shirt.

Don't think my dad ever renounced his British citizenship, would need to get a hold of death certificate and birth certificate of his though. Birth will be the mission...

I suspect getting it will take a good few months? (includes all the document sending, Bureaucrat slapping etc.)

once you've gotten hold of all the documents- took them about two weeks to sort, so much quicker than I expected.

For practical purposes you can't really renounce your citizenship these days. It doesn't lapse, and it'd take something pretty extreme for it to be stripped from you.

For the last year I have had a British passport but no NZ passport due to its expiry. I discovered it had expired in a taxi on the way to the airport to fly to NZ

Yeah actually that would probably piss you off a bit.