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Below is information to our most popular enquiries, including links to relevant pages of our website:
www.gov.uk/browse/citizenship/citizenship
1. RETURN OF DOCUMENTS
2. Requesting an application form
The Home Office no longer provides application forms. All applications forms are now available on our website.
You can apply here for immigration services such as visas, leave to remain, settlement and citizenship. We will help you to find and complete the form you need. Some forms are interactive; others must be printed and completed by hand.
3. Confirming receipt of applications
It is currently taking 6 weeks to acknowledge all applications.
If you sent your application by Recorded or Special Delivery, its receipt can be confirmed on the Royal Mail website at: Royal Mail
4. OUTSTANDING APPLICATIONS
5. CURRENT FEES, PAYMENT INFORMATION AND BALANCE OF FEES
6. Confirmation of Nationality Status
Our procedure for dealing with enquiries of this nature has changed. You now have 3 options:
1. You may test the strength of your claim to British nationality by submitting an application for a United Kingdom passport. Advice about the passport application process, and relevant forms, can be obtained here or by calling Her Majesty’s Passport Office on 0300 222 0000. If you are living outside the UK, you should click here.
2. You may apply to us for a nationality status certificate, using Form NS. A fee of £94.00 will be payable with this application. This fee is non-refundable.
Quick Links to FORM NS, Guide and payment slip.
FORM NS
Guide NS
Payment Slip
3. You may seek advice from a professional legal adviser in private practice. A list of suitably qualified advisers can be obtained from
www.oisc.gov.uk or by calling the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner on 0845 000 0046.
7. Requesting a duplicate certificate of naturalisation or registration
If certificate issued after October 1986 click here.
If certificate issued between January 1969 and October 1986
The Home Office does not hold records prior to October 1986. Prior to that date records are held by The National Archive, apart from the records of grants of citizenship between January 1969 and September 1986 which are no longer available. The National Archive should, however, still hold a card record of your details.
If a copy of this card record can be obtained from the National Archive it may then be submitted to our office along with a form NS, to request that our department provide confirmation of your British citizen status. A payment of £94 will be required with this request.
The form NS and guidance can be obtained here.
Once the NS application has been submitted and processed, the Home Office should be able to issue a letter confirming your status.
The National Archives may be contacted at:
Advice & Records Knowledge
The National Archives
Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU
Telephone number 0208 876 3444
Further information is available at:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cont ... m.asp?id=7
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/reco ... sation.htm
If certificate issued before January 1969
If you wish to request a duplicate certificate, it may be possible to obtain a copy of the certificate from The National Archive. Their contact details have been noted above.
8. AMENDMENT REQUIRED TO A CERTIFICATE OF NATURALISATION OR REGISTRATION
9. PROOF THAT YOU HAVE NOT ACQUIRED BRITISH CITIZENSHIP - LETTER OF NON-ACQUISITION
10. Knowledge of Language & Life in the UK
For information regarding the Life in the UK test please click here
For information about ESOL courses please click here
How do I book a Life in the UK test if I don’t have one of the specified identity documents?
If you do not have suitable photo ID, you will not be able to book a test until after you have submitted your application. You should note on page 15 of the application form that you have not provided a pass notification letter as you do not have the necessary documents to book the life in the UK test. When your application is considered, the caseworker will ensure that you have provided a photograph which is confirmed by your referees as being a true likeness, before writing to you explaining how to book a test by special arrangement. When you attend the test you will be required to take a passport-sized photograph, which will be retained by the test centre and attached to your pass notification letter. You will not be given your letter – it will be send directly to us for verification.
It is important that you prepare for the test before submitting your application as you will be asked to pass your test within 21 days of us contacting you to make the special arrangements.
11. ACCEPTABLE REFEREES
12. Transfer of certificate of entitlement to the right of abode
Since December 2006 the Home Office no longer undertakes transfers of Right of Abode vignettes. All requests for Certificate of Entitlements to the Right of Abode must be submitted with a fresh application and documents supporting the claim. The fee for an application is currently £170.00.
Information on the requirements for Certificates of Entitlement to the Right of Abode, along with links to obtain the application forms, may be obtained here.
13. NOTIFYING A CHANGE OF ADDRESS
14. Allegations/Deprivation of British citizenship
If you have emailed an allegation be assured that we take all information received concerning the actual or potential abuse seriously and any such information is forwarded to the relevant department and investigated accordingly.
We are grateful for the information you have provided. However, we will not be able to advise you of the progress or results of any investigation relating to this information.
If you wish to make an allegation by post, please write to us at the following address:
Home Office
North West Responder Hub
Department 16
PO Box 306
LIVERPOOL
L3 9PP
If you feel that British citizenship has been obtained by fraud, false representation or by concealing facts that would have affected our decision, you can refer this to our deprivation team using a referral form which is available here.
You can remain anonymous, but please include as much detail as possible, including home and/or work addresses and postcodes if you have this information.
15. EEA Nationals & Family Members
If your enquiry relates to an application for residence documents on the basis of being an EEA national or the family member of an EEA national you may find it useful to refer to our website. Visit here if you are an EEA national; and here for information if you are the family member of an EEA national.
In addition, a checklist is available here which details the documents you will need to provide in support of your application.
16. Enquiry Not Covered
If you are still unable to find the answer to your enquiry then please submit your query to the following email address:
FurtherNationalityEnquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Please provide full personal details of anyone relevant to the enquiry, such as name, date of birth, place of birth, current nationality and immigration status, if known. A telephone number should also be provided so that we may contact you if needed.
Alternatively if you would prefer to write to the Home Office the address you should send your enquiry to is:
Home Office
North West Responder Hub
Department 16
PO Box 306
LIVERPOOL
L3 9PP
We hope that this information will be of assistance to you.
