United Kingdom - Passport & Nationality - British Citizenship by Double Descent (Nyasaland)

Listen to our BRITISH NATIONALITY WEBINAR on Malawi where our two British nationality experts - Philip Gamble and Mishal Patel - discuss a family birth in Nyasaland and its implications for claims to British nationality in the modern day.

This route to British Citizenship arises from a father's birth in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and occurs in the following set of circumstances:

BORN BEFORE MALAWIAN INDEPENDENCE ON 5 JULY 1964

 - Candidate was born after 1 January 1949;

 - Candidate was born outside of Nyasaland;

 - Candidate's father was born in Nyasaland before 1949; AND

 - Candidate's paternal grandfather was born in a former British Crown Dominion.

BORN AFTER MALAWIAN INDEPENDENCE ON 5 JULY 1964

 - Candidate was born before 1 January 1982;

 - Candidate's father was born in Nyasaland before 1949; AND

 - Candidate's paternal grandfather was born in a former British Crown Dominion.

In most situations, the solution requires the candidate to have the Right of Abode through a UK-born grandparent.