Citizen+of+the+United+Kingdom

 **Citizen of the United Kingdom**  

**Different Classes of British Nationalities:**    ** British Overseas Citizens** (BOC)    Kong) Order 1986.
 * British Citizenship** is the most common type of British nationality, and the only one that automatically carries a right of abode in the United Kingdom.
 * British Overseas Territories Citizens** (formerly British Dependent Territories citizenship) (BOTC),
 *  BOTC (formerly BDTC) is the form of British nationality held by a connection with an existing  overseas territories.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> BOCs are those former CUKCs who did not qualify for either British citizenship or British Dependent Territories citizenship.
 * British Subjects**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> British subjects (as defined in the 1981 Act) are those British subjects who were not CUKCs or citizens of any other Commonwealth country.
 * British Nationals Overseas**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> The status of BNO did not originally exist under the 1981 scheme, but was created by the Hong Kong Act 1985 and the British Nationality (Hong


 * British Protected Persons**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> BPPs derive from those parts of the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 115%;">British Empire <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14.3pt; line-height: 115%;"> which were not officially part of the Crown's dominions, but were instead protectorates or protected states with nominally independent rulers under the "protection" of the British Crown.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Citizenship ceremonies are normally organized by: **
 * local councils in England, Scotland, and Wales
 * the Northern Ireland Office
 * the governments of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey
 * the Governors of British Overseas Territories
 * British consular offices outside the United Kingdom and territories

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;">**British Citizenship can be acquired in the following ways:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 115%;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"lex soli" By birth in the United Kingdom to a parent who is a British citizen at the time of the birth, or to a parent who is settled in the United Kingdom
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"lex sanguis" By descent if one of the parents is a British citizen otherwise than by descent (for example by birth, adoption, registration or naturalization in the United Kingdom). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 115%;">[[image:http://stearn.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/red-blood-cells.bmp width="209" height="209" align="right"]]
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">By naturalization
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">By registration <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 115%;">
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">By adoption

For nationality purposes, the Channel island and Isle of Man are generally treated as if they were part of the United Kingdom

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Other cases where persons may be entitled to registration (either as a matter of law or policy) include:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">children born in the UK where a parent obtains British citizenship or indefinite leave to remain after the child is born
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">children born in the UK who live in the UK until age 10.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">children born to a British father who is not married to the mother
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">British Overseas citizens, British subjects and British protected persons who have no other nationality
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">certain British nationals from Hong Kong who meet the requirements of the Hong Kong (War Wives and Widows) Act 1996 or the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">British Nationals (Overseas) who do not hold any other citizenship or nationality before 19 March, 2009 (see Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 regards the extension of Section 4B of the British Nationality Act 1981)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">persons born outside the UK to a British born or naturalised mother between 1961 and 1982
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">certain children born outside the UK to a British citizen //by descent//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">certain children born in the UK who are //stateless//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">persons who acquire //British overseas territories citizenship// after 21 May 2002 (except those connected solely with the Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">children under 18 who are adopted outside the United Kingdom by British citizens
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">former British citizens who renounced British citizenship

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 * To be a Good Citizen in the United Kingdom**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Know the laws that don't always apply to everyone else, but may pertain to what you like to do
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Abide by the laws put in place to keep trade between other countries good
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Do not shame your country
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Be loyal to your culture and background
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Do not fight the police, they are only enforcing the laws


 * Below is a video of a UK citizen knowing his right to video tape the police from his own yard** **.**

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