British Solider daughters

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Dear Home Office,

Please may I make a FOI request.

1) Do daughters of British Army soldiers born abroad in Military Hospitals now have the right to pass on British Nationality to their children who were born prior to 1983.?

I hope you will see this as a general FOI request.

Yours faithfully,

Linda Cordingley

FOI Requests, Home Office

Ms Cordingley,

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 51455). We will aim to send you a full response by 10/01/2019 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

P. Zebedee
FOI Requests
Home Office

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FOI Requests, Home Office

Ms Cordingley,

Further to our email below, please be aware that the decision has been taken to handle your correspondence outside the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, and instead process it as 'Business as Usual'. As a result, case ref 51455 has been cancelled.

You should expect to receive a response in due course.

Thank you,

P. Zebedee
FOI Requests
Home Office

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Dear FOI Requests,

I should like to request an Internal Review please on the grounds you have failed to
reply to my question and I have still not received any correspondence from your office at all.

Yours sincerely,

linda cordingley

Public Enquiries (CD), Home Office

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Thank you for your email enquiry.

A reply is attached.

Public Enquiries

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linda cordingley

Dear Mr Kelly,

Thank you for your FOI response. I am aware of the UKM law and the 1979 law.

Immigration gave me the wrong information several times over the years. I was told I would have to
ask “permission” from my husband for my children to have British Citizenship which he refused.

After divorce I was again told that children “belong” to the husband by immigration. My Divorce Solicitor also gave me the wrong information, and even couldn’t get the names right on the custody papers. ( I do not have a son called Michael). Thanks to the incompetence of the Solicitor and the Immigration office unable to give me the correct information two of the children were abducted abroad and never returned.

As for UKM I am a British subject my passports tell me, my birth certificates states I was born in a British Forces Hospital and naturalised. My parents marriage certificate shows BOTH were both Sgts on Active Service when they married and both British as were several generations.

The problem was I was unable to leave Germany sooner due to domestic violence with my children (proof in papers) we finally came to England as there was a shortage of toolmakers and my husband had been offered a job here due to a shortage of skilled workers. I would probably have been stuck there for years had the job offer not happened. 1979/80 Divorce 1984.

The point I am trying to make is I have been let down by the Police, the Solicitor who gained an OBE for his services to Justice, MPs and by the Home Office Immigration call advisors. Once divorced a new relationship broke down as we could never go on holiday as I couldn’t get my children on my passport. Not even a day trip to France. All because no one knew the correct information as I would have done this myself years ago had I been giving the right details.

I thought marriage was an equal partnership made up of two equals not one had more rights than the other.

I apologise if there seems to be a hostile tone to this response as it has done irreparable damage to my family and left me not knowing whether my children were dead or alive for 5 years and 11 before I was allowed to see them again. I would also like to add I was told by my divorce Solicitor the children couldn’t be abducted as this was their residency and the Court refused to listen when I said if allowed to go on holiday they would be abducted.

Yours sincerely,

linda cordingley

Public Enquiries (CD), Home Office

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Dear Madam,

 

 

Thank you for your email of 18 March.

 

Please be advised that we are unable to assist with your enquiry.

 

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Yours faithfully,

 

UK Visas and Immigration

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