We aim to issue birth certificates within five working days of receipt of a correctly completed application and fee.

For the registration of the birth of your child, please bring along the following original documents with two sets of photocopies of the documents:

a) British birth registration form
b) Child’s Bruneian birth certificate
c) Parents’ long form birth certificate
d) Parents’ marriage certificate
e) Divorce papers – Absolute Decree (if either of you have previously been married and were married outside the UK)
f) Parents’ British passports
g) Birth registration fee 

A Consular Birth Registration is not a legal requirement, but it is recommended.

Births outside Brunei Darussalam will need to be forwarded to the relevant British High Commission/Embassy for registering.

The advantages are that:

• A British style birth certificate is available as evidence of British nationality
  
• A record of the birth will afterwards be held in the General Registry Office in the United Kingdom. Further copies can be obtained from the General Registry Office rather than from the Authorities in the country of Birth.

The majority of unsuccessful applications are refused due to the fact that one of the parents of the applicant is still married to someone else and has not declared this to us.  Please note that we do carry out checks on marriages and this may delay the application.

If you are unable to provide some of the documents mentioned below or if there are any doubts regarding the application, you may be required to attend an interview and/or require you to do a D.N.A. test to prove the relationship between parents and applicant (child).

Please note that we may ask for further documents after your application has been taken in, please do not therefore book any flights until you know for sure that the birth registration will be issued.

Procedures and requirements:

A. For applicants born on/after 1st July 2006 to parents who are married/unmarried where the British citizen father is named on the local birth certificate within a year of the child’s birth, and the mother is NOT married to someone else

Compulsory documents:
(Please present ORIGINAL documents and photocopies of each document)

• Complete a Consular Birth Registration form
• Applicant’s birth certificate
  
• Parents’ birth certificates
  
• British parent: submit full/long UK birth certificate or Birth Registration/Naturalisation certificate
• Other Nationality born parent: submit full birth certificate
  

If applicable, parents’ marriage certificate – and evidence of termination of any previous marriage (divorce decree nisi, annulment)

• Submit CENOMAR (Certificate of No Marriage Record) for Philippine citizen parent if not married to the British parent of the applicant
• If parents are not married, mother’s written consent to the issuance of a passport to her child
• If applicable, father’s/mother’s death certificate
• Both parents’ passports from around the time of applicant’s birth and conception
• If applicable, current or previous passports held by applicant
  
• Home Office documents for other nationals who have become British Nationals
  
• Members of the Armed Forces need to submit a Certificate of Service from their Commanding Officer to determine under which section the child comes under the British Nationality Act 1981

Additional required documents:
(Please present ORIGINAL documents and photocopies of each document)

Depending on the age of the applicant we may also ask for school records, local photo identity documents, photographs of the applicant growing up, parents' UK documents (one year before and up to two years after applicant’s birth)

B. For applicants born before 1st July 2006 to unmarried parents, whose claim to British nationality is through the father only and whose parents subsequently marry after the child’s birth:

Compulsory documents:
(Please present ORIGINAL documents and photocopies of each document)

• Complete a Consular Birth Registration form
• Applicant’s birth certificate
  
• Both parents must sign declarations of paternity (mother/father) in front of a Consular officer
• The father must complete a domicile questionnaire.The purpose of this is to establish whether the father has retained a domicile in the UK (this basically means close connections in the UK) and can therefore benefit from the provisions of British nationality law.
• Parents’ birth certificates
• British parent: submit full/long UK birth certificate or Birth Registration/Naturalisation certificate
• Parents’ marriage certificate –and evidence of termination of any previous marriage (divorce decree nisi, annulment) 
• If applicable, father’s/mother’s death certificate
• Both parents’ passports from around the time of applicant’s birth and conception
• If applicable, current or previous passports held by applicant

Additional required documents:
(Please present ORIGINAL documents and photocopies of each document)

Depending on the age of the applicant we may also ask for school records, local photo identity documents, photographs of the applicant growing up, parents' UK documents (one year before and up to two years after applicant’s birth)

Useful Contacts:

(For enquiries about UK birth, death, marriage and civil partnership)

Consular Directorate
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Room G38, Old Admiralty Building
London SW1A 2PA
Tel: +0044 207 008 0186
Email: bmdenquiries@fco.gov.uk

(Requests for duplicate of naturalisation certificate)
Nationality Enquiries Team
Immigration and Nationality Directorate
Home Office
PO Box 306
Liverpool
L69 2UX