United Kingdom - Passport & Nationality - British Overseas Citizen (BOC) - Marriage pre 49

This solution - known as British Overseas Citizenship (or BOC) - arises from an anomaly in the British Nationality Act of 1948.

The 1948 Act gave Citizenship of the UK & Colonies (or CUKC) status to those people connected to Australia and Canada if they did not become citizens of a Commonwealth country on 1 January 1949. The anomaly arises because the law of these two countries relies on a woman claiming citizenship through marriage to reside in either of these two countries before 1949 (and not all did so. The solution relies on the following set of circumstances to a woman:

 - born before 1949;

 - not born in a British Crown Dominion;

 - married to a Canadian or Australian man before 1949; AND

 - not resident in Australia or Canada on 1 January 1949.

Where this woman has the Right of Abode through a UK-born grandparent, their status would have been reclassified as a full British citizen on 1 January 1983.