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Re:Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell by jameshh on Saturday June 28, 2025 @08:30PM (#44409329)
> I think the author may also be born outside the UK which may require other/more documents

In fact `applicant's father` (me) was born in the UK in this case, but `applicant's father's father` was not, the cause of the extra complications.

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Re:Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell by crooked-v on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:13PM (#44410071)
I have to wonder how they would handle cases where a person doesn't have a legal father at all.
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Re:Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell by lmm on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:24AM (#44410554)
If you don't have a legal father then you can't claim British citizenship through your father. That's all pretty straightforward. (Although there's a fun case where you can claim citizenship by double descent because your ancestor wasn't able to claim citizenship because of sexist historical laws).
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Re:Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell by new299 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:09AM (#44412133)
:(

Weirdly this never came up for me (and I'm in a similar situation). I suspect what documents are ask for varies a lot by who is assessing the application.

Hope it all works out!

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