r/UKCitizenship

Hi, this is my first time posting so I don’t really know reddit etiquette and whatnot, but that is besides the point! This is going to be a long one and potentially confusing one that is going to be posted on multiple groups(?) for maximum efficiency. If you can maybe help that would be VERY APPRECIATED!

I am a 18F who was born in London and has lived in London my entire life, my mum however is a Dutch immigrant and my father is African but is not in the picture and hasn’t been.

My mum and I have dutch passports, EVISAs, share codes and indefinite leave however, I had only found this out this year as I was/have applied to universities. I was accepted into my firm 2 days ago and am currently spiralling because of the enrolment process.

My uni has marked me as a ‘UK based overseas’ whilst I was completing the first stage of enrolment questions and I guess I am spiralling over whether I am paying home tuition fees or international tuition fees.

I decided to do further research into what UK based overseas meant and it lead me to looking at who qualifies as a British Citizen… It claimed:

If at least one of your parents was a citizen of an EU or EEA country when you were born

You’re automatically a British citizen if when you were born all the following applied to at least one of your parents:

they had citizenship of a country that was in the EU or the EEA at the time
they lived in the UK
they had ‘indefinite leave to remain’ (ILR), ‘settled status’, ‘permanent residence status’, ‘right of abode’ or ‘right of re-admission’

My mum lived in the Uk at the time of my birth, I can see it on my birth certificate however, when i asked if she had ILR she said she did and that she had this blue card. I don’t know if this blue card is valid anymore or how to go about this anymore. I don’t know if I am a British citizen or if I am eligible for a British passport or if I am going to pay international tuition fees?!?!?

Any advice is appreciated, I am genuinely spiralling. If anyone needs more information to try and help I would be happy to provide I just genuinely don’t know what to do. Thank you for reading.

TL;DR: HMPO rejected my baby's passport 4 times demanding a physical wet-ink MOFA stamp. Under UAE federal law, EHS digital birth certificates receive Digital Attestation only - physical stamps are completely disabled. HMPO is ignoring the live verification portal and demanding policy letters that embassies refuse to write.

• Digital Document: Child born in UAE; EHS certificate receives e-Attestation (QR code & ref number).
• Courier Returned Unstamped: Sent to MOFA via courier for a wet stamp - returned 3 days later unstamped because digital certs can only be attested digitally.
• HMPO Loop: Explained 4 times that a physical stamp is impossible. HMPO keeps sending copy-paste template rejections.
• Refused Letters: HMPO asked for an "official policy letter." Both UAE MOFA and the British Embassy explicitly refused to write custom policy letters for individuals.
• Ignored Proof: Sent HMPO direct links to published MOFA policies (mofa.gov.ae) and the verification portal (verify.mofa.gov.ae) - caseworkers won't look at them.

I’m currently escalating to a Stage 2 Senior Manager Review and contacting my UK MP.

1. Has anyone else had HMPO reject a UAE digital birth cert over a missing wet stamp?
2. How did you get past HMPO demanding custom embassy letters?
3. How long did Stage 2 or an MP intervention take to fix this?