Ask Auntie, CNS Local Life, Caymanian statusOnce a child is born overseas of a marriage between a Caymanian and a non-Caymanian, can you apply for the Cayman passport for the child while overseas? And for Caymanians just generally living overseas, can we apply for a Cayman passport or renew our Cayman passport while overseas? If so, how?


Auntie’s answer: No, you cannot apply for or renew a British Overseas Territories Citizen/Cayman Islands passport while you are off-island. An official with the Passport Office confirmed you must be in Cayman to apply, and explained the process.

In the case of a child born overseas to a Caymanian, the office must first ascertain his or her eligibility. To do that, the parents must scan and email a series of documents which will be reviewed — the child’s birth certificate, the Caymanian parent’s birth certificate if born in the Cayman Islands or the parent’s naturalisation certificate if born overseas, and the parents’ marriage certificate.

Once it is determined that the child or individual (if it is an adult applying) is eligible for the passport, the next step is to get the application processed online by Her Majesty’s Passport Office in the UK through the government website.

The official also to wanted to point out the passport will be a “look alike”, meaning “the cover will be that of a British Citizen passport but the nationality on the data page should read British Overseas Territories Citizen”.

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