Birth registration procedures:

There is a Births Register for children born in Seychelles who are entitled to British citizenship.

Parents should register the birth at the High Commission within one year of the child’s birth. Once registered, parents can apply for UK style Birth Certificates: applications should be submitted to the Consular Section of the High Commission.

In order to register a birth we require the following:

• Child’s long local birth certificate
• Parents long birth certificates, or, if born outside the United Kingdom, documentary evidence of their claim to British nationality, eg Naturalisation or registration certificate.
• Parent’s marriage certificate and, if appropriate, evidence of the termination of any previous marriage of either parent.
• Mother or Father’s British passport
• Appropriate fee (Consular fees)

N.B Photocopies of documents are not acceptable.

Marriage registration procedures:

Validity of foreign law marriages

The validity under English law of foreign law marriages is not a matter on which the High Commission can give authoritative advice: it is a matter for British courts to decide. Should you wish further advice on this point, or any other point of law, a solicitor should be consulted.

Deposit of foreign law marriage certificates

It should be clearly understood that there is no legal obligation to have a foreign law marriage recorded in the United Kingdom and that if you want this to happen your marriage certificate will be retained by the UK government records office.
You may take advantage of these facilities if you consider that it would serve some useful purpose to have your marriage recorded in the United Kingdom, but neither the formal nor the essential validity in English law of a marriage contracted in a foreign country is in any way affected by its having been, or not having been, thus recorded.

If you decide you want to have a marriage recorded in the United Kingdom, once the marriage has taken place the marriage certificate may be deposited with the High Commission by the British party or parties to the marriage and, on payment of a consular fee, documents are forwarded to the Registrar General in the United Kingdom so that certified copies can subsequently be obtained in the United Kingdom.