MUM OF A 1/4 Filipino

A few things to look at    Are you UK citizen by naturalization or birth.   My wife naturalized in the states and our child born before she did can be registered and not the one born after.  Looking at different consulates explaining the law might help you understand your apecific situation.

It worked for me and my son in the other way in the Philippines. I went to the Austrian embassy in Manila with my Austrian citizen ship document, my passport and with the apostilled birth certificate of my son and a few weeks later he got an Austrian passport.

So yoy need to go to Philippine embassy in London with your birth certificate from the Philippines, your ID and the birth certificate of your kid. This should be enough. Your kid is already a Philippine citizen as you have the citizenship of the Philippines.

It is more complex if you have returned the citizenship of the Philippines.

Please let us know how it works for you. This might help others.

Andy from Boracay (8 years in the Philippines)

@smithta63

I'm a natural Filipino by birth. Born and raised there for 13 years. But I'm also a British citizen by birth as my father is British.

Register your child's birth certificate with the consulate.  The embassy will send it to PSA and you can order a copy.  Don't expect it to be available quickly.  PSA didn't have my son's registration six months after I filed it.  I have an appointment to check again next week.  I'm in the Philippines my neighbor got married last weekend and he said it takes six months to get the documents registered with the psa.

Register your child's birth certificate with the consulate. The embassy will send it to PSA and you can order a copy. Don't expect it to be available quickly. PSA didn't have my son's registration six months after I filed it. I have an appointment to check again next week. I'm in the Philippines my neighbor got married last weekend and he said it takes six months to get the documents registered with the psa. - @smithta63

I can confirm  - @smithta63's comments on the submission of documents to the PSA, my wife gave birth to our son in hospital here on January 10th and because I wanted to apply for his British citizenship, we went to City Hall here in Cagayan De Oro to ask them to expedite them submitting his birth certificate to the PSA and I was told my reasons for asking to jump the queue were not good enough and at present the lead time for them submitting documents to PSA is eight months.

@mhiranojoy :  if I remembered it correctly, if one parent was a citizen of the Philippines at the time the child was born, the child can have a Philippine passport. I think you will need to present your old Phillipine passport, the child's birth certificate and your UK naturalization documents to show timeline of your citizenship.

My experiences dealing with the Philippine Consulate in Chicago were not good at all. Yes, more than one bad experience. One time, they approved the photocopied documents sent to them prior to showing on the appointment. But they rejected one item they missed upon showing up. They have improved in recent years, but still I felt like they could have employed more competent personnel.