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    To determine if you are a British citizen even if you were born in the UK after 1982 to non-British or Irish parents, you need to check the immigration status of at least one parent at the time of your birth. That parent would need to have had indefinite leave to remain, right of abode, right to re-admission, or permanent residence status, which allowed them to live and work in the UK without restriction. Documents that could prove these statuses include stamps in passports, letters from the Home Office, residence permits, or descriptions in passports of certain rights.

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    To determine if you are a British citizen even if you were born in the UK after 1982 to non-British or Irish parents, you need to check the immigration status of at least one parent at the time of your birth. That parent would need to have had indefinite leave to remain, right of abode, right to re-admission, or permanent residence status, which allowed them to live and work in the UK without restriction. Documents that could prove these statuses include stamps in passports, letters from the Home Office, residence permits, or descriptions in passports of certain rights.

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    To determine if you are a British citizen even if you were born in the UK after 1982 to non-British or Irish parents, you need to check the immigration status of at least one parent at the time of your birth. That parent would need to have had indefinite leave to remain, right of abode, right to re-admission, or permanent residence status, which allowed them to live and work in the UK without restriction. Documents that could prove these statuses include stamps in passports, letters from the Home Office, residence permits, or descriptions in passports of certain rights.

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    If you were born in the UK after 31 December 1982 and your parents
    were not British or Irish, you’ll need check their immigration status to
    be sure you’re automatically a British citizen.

    At least one of your parents will usually need to have had one of the
    following when you were born:

    indefinite leave to remain (ILR)


    right to re-admission
    right of abode
    permanent residence status

    Your parent would have been able to live and work in the UK without
    restrictions if they had any of these statuses.

    Indefinite leave to remain (ILR)


    ILR is not usually a status you get automatically - your parent would
    have applied for it before getting it.

    If your parent has ILR, they will usually have one of the following to
    prove it:

    a stamp in their passport


    a letter from the Home Office
    a ‘vignette’ (sticker)
    a biometric residence permit

    Right of abode
    Your parent may have got right of abode automatically if they were a
    British national or from a Commonwealth country - they will not have
    applied for it.

    If your parent has ‘right of abode’, they’ll usually have either:

    a UK passport describing them as a ‘British citizen’ or ‘British


    subject with right of abode’
    a non-UK passport with a ‘certificate of entitlement to the right of
    abode’

    Find out more about right of abode.

    Right to re-admission
    Your parent may have got right to re-admission automatically if they
    were from a Commonwealth country - they will not have applied for it.

    If your parent has ‘right to re-admission’, they’ll usually have a


    passport that says they’re ‘entitled to readmission to the United
    Kingdom’.

    Permanent residence status


    Your parent will usually have got permanent residence status
    automatically if both the following apply:

    they were from an EU or EEA country


    they lived in the UK for 5 years and were working, studying, self-
    sufficient or looking for work here

    Your parent does not need to have applied for a permanent residence
    document to have permanent residence status. Find out more about
    permanent residence status.

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