5. At present, not all citizens by descent have the right of abode in the
United Kingdom.
They have the right of abode only if one of their parents or
grandparents was born, adopted, naturalised or registered in the United Kingdom.
The Proposed Changes
6. It is proposed that in the new law British Citizenship by descent (which
will always confer the right of abode in the United Kingdom) will be obtained
as follows:
(a) citizenship will descend in the female line as well as the male
line to the first generation of children born outside the United
Kingdom, when the father or mother is a citizen by birth here;
(b) beyond this, citizenship will descend to the second generation
only when either parent is in Crown Service etc at the time of the
birth;
(c) the acquisition of citizenship by consular registration in
foreign countries will cease;
(a) people who are naturalised and registered in the United Kingdom
(or by our High Commissioners overseas) will not as at present pass
on their citizenship to any children they may subsequently have who
are born outside the United Kingdom (in this respect they would be
put on the same footing as citizens by descent rather than citizens
by birth as they are at present);
(e) a child born overseas, both of whose parents are British Citizens
by descent, is to be entitled to be registered as a British Citizen
(under the provision for the registration of minor children) if he
and his parents have settled in the United Kingdom for 3 years during
his minority.
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