Advice please.... To have the baby here or in the UK??

Also - with Australia and UK - you do not apply for dual citizenship! Neither country cares if you hold another country's nationality - you can hold as many as you are entitled to. So you just apply for both (and obviously pay the associated fees twice). This is not true for all countries - there are many that do not allow dual citizenship.

No idea about having a baby in UAE or UK - had all mine in Australia (recently 1 over summer)... I am not sure why the UAE has any say as to the nationality of your baby..... My baby and my other kids have both Australian and British passports. A passport from the UK and Australia (and hence citizenship) is between you and the respective governments and based on the nationality of the parents. Neither the UK or Australia make any distinction between the mother or father - if one parent was born in that country and is therefore a citizen by birth the child has an automatic right to citizenship by descent. Your first child by their birth right is an Australian citizen by descent and can apply for an Australian passport should they want to! Only thing to be mindful of is that if your baby never lives in the UK and then has a baby in another country, that baby (your future grandchild) won't have a claim to British citizenship. As descent only goes one generation. This is the same for both the UK and Australia. My children who were born in Australia are British by descent (Australian by birth) and hence their children would not have an automatic claim to british citizenship, unless my kids at some stage choose to live in the UK for at least 3 years. We have never registered the kids births with the UK embassy or government. We just filled out the forms for a passport online and submitted the documents (including my husbands UK birth certificate). One plus on the Aussie side is that you can get a passport in a week...we're still waiting for the UK one over a month later! My older kids have their British passports already. The only issue in the UAE would arise in the case of a father from an arab country - ie. when the child attended school if the father is arab they have to do arabic studies and are considered muslim. Which wouldn't be the case when both parents are not arabs or muslims.

Hi Mums, So this is our situation: we are expecting our 2nd child (we had our first when we lived in the UK), but here my husbands company doesn't cover it on insurance. We have paid for the pregnancy package buy we are still debating the delivery: 1. If I go home to have the baby, is it likely I will be charged by the NHS? 2. If we have bAby here, we want it to have a british passport like me and our daughter- my husband is Australian! And I read that they take the fathers Citizenship here! Any help / guidance would be hugely appreciated. Thanks :-) The NHS don't have the means to charge people to deliver in the UK that is why so many people are doing it. They don't ask for proof of address or who your UK GP is. That's why it is costing them a fortune. I think they will eventually get around to doing it but at present they don't

Hi, I’m expecting my first and have done a lot of research on this subject. In my view (and my view only) the standard of healthcare in the UAE surpasses that of the UK. However I would love to have my family around me for such a big moment /the arrival of first grandchild! To answer your questions: 1. If you have been out of the UK less than 5 years, the NHS should not charge you for treatment. 2. You are correct the baby will automatically take the father’s citizenship, but I imagine you will be able to apply for dual citizenship when/if you register the birth with the UK government. FYI it looks like a paperwork mine field If it is a single baby and there are no complications, you can normally fly up until 36 weeks. It is all up to what works best for you and your family :-)