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- From: gd8f@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Gregory Dandulakis)
- Subject: Re: The Scarlet Letter
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.175551.11925@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <28405@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:55:51 GMT
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- In article <28405@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
- >On the off chance that the AppleOfOurEye might like to accompany us
- >on trips abroad, I called the Passport Office to ask about adding her
- >name to my passport. Apparently this is impossible because a) her
- >mother is Greek and b) we are not married, and hence she is not a
- >British Citizen. The passport people suggested that she could become a
- >British Citizen by ``registration'', but when I called the Naturalization
- >Office (or whatever it's called), they told me that she couldn't register
- >as a British citizen because she was born ``out of wedlock'' (their words,
- >not mine).
-
-
- Very interesting! So, even though you have legally recognized your
- child as such (yours), doesn't she take the citizenship automatically?
-
- What about that she was born on British territory. Doesn't this give
- her the automatic right for citizenship?
-
- In both cases, in the US and Greece, this would have given her the
- citizenship.
-
-
- >The only thing to do was to get married and ``legitimise'' the
- >birth. Now I may be wrong, but I thought that Queen Victoria had been
- >off the throne a good many years now, so I'm surprised to hear this
- >terminology, not to mention the disgusting holier-than-thou morality it
- >conceals.
- >
- >In order for the child to have a Greek passport, the Greek embassy claim
- >that the mother must personally go to register the birth in Athens,
- >filling in ``unknown'' in the space reserved for ``father's name''. They
- >would then issue her a SEPARATE passport. That should prove pretty useful
- >for her on those occasions when she has to dip across to the States for
- >a business meeting without her parents. But it does raise the question of
- >how to sit her in the Photo-Me booth, particularly since she is less than
- >three weeks old and can't support her own head. And should the photo be
- >with, or without nappies? I'm sure there's an EC regulation on this.
-
-
- How come? I have seen that Greeks register their child as Greek in
- embassies and consulates abroad. I had seen one from Hartum, Sudan.
- Has this changed lately? Check it again in an other consulate.
- Ortherwise I cann't see any solution axcept your wife to travel in
- Athens...
-
- There is no EC regulations on that. They are discussing it very-very
- heattingly lately.
-
-
- Gr
-