By Hugo Gye A mother from Essex has been told that she is not entitled to a British passport because her father is not named on her birth certificate. Christine North has lived in Britain since she was seven years old, and is the daughter of a British Army soldier who met her mother while stationed in Germany. She is married to an Englishman, has done jury service twice and has voted at every election since she turned 18. But the 32-year-old is officially not a citizen of the UK because she is unable to prove that her father was in fact British.
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Christine North, 32, is the daughter of a British soldier and German mother
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She has lived in Britain since she was seven but has been told she is not a citizen because her father was not named on birth certificate
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Officials say there is no way to bend the rules to accommodate Mrs North
She has met with @placeholder officials in an attempt to secure a German passport so she can travel abroad, but is adamant that the law should be changed to allow her to take British citizenship.
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