Hi everyone,

Applying for a GHIC. I still have my unmarried name on my passport but I use my married name everywhere else e.g. at the doctors, UK driving license, bank etc. So should I be using my married or unmarried name for my GHIC card?

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Hi everyone, I need to return a BRP for my spouse who got citizenship recently. There is an address in the email which says: "Once you have received your certificate of British citizenship any Biometric Residence Permit (BRP card) you have will no longer be valid and cannot be used as evidence of yo...

Hi everyone, Hope you are well! I have some question/s about making a first-time passport application I was hoping you could help me with please! 1/ Other names I use my married name on documents such as my driver's license. On my foreign passport, it is my unmarried name, and as it's a bit of a dif...

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Thanks for your replies.

From my understanding we can't apply for a fast track passport as this will be her first passport. Is this correct?


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Scary thing surrendering the brp is if for any reason my wife has to go abroad urgently she wouldn't be allowed back in, not until she's got her British passport.

Thank you for the reassurance.

Yes we have a child but I am a British citizen since birth, my wife is from abroad and is the one who obtained citizenship. In this case I think it should be fine to send her brp back?

Please advise and thanks.

Hi everyone, Hope you are well. Asking on the behalf of someone. It's been more than 5 days since the person got their citizenship certificate. A week. We weren't aware that it has to be returned within 5 working days, just checked today. So today will be day 6 if taking into account the day the the...

Hi everyone Appointment is soon, within 48 hours, it looks like you can submit documents "up to 48 hours before your appointment." (https://www.ukvcas.co.uk/faq under Uploading documents - How do I submit my supporting documents before my UKVCAS appointment?) but it's too late to do that now. I have...

Hi everyone When doing a passport renewal for a Pakistani national who has ILR and BRP what should the "permanent address" be when applying for this online at https://onlinemrp.dgip.gov.pk/ The reason for asking is permanent address on an NIC for example would be the house address in Pakistan. Thanks

I am unsure about the following:

We applied using her current passport so if we renew it then her new passport will become her new current one and different from the one we applied with. We would need to apply for renewal before her biometric appointment. Would this be an issue?

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Hi everyone My wife's Pakistani passport is due to expire soon, we have made the application for her British Citizenship, is it okay to renew her passport? The biometric appointment is nearer the end of this month and I was wanting to apply for passport renewal asap. Would this create any issues? Th...

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Is there much point in the SMS update service provided by UKVCAS. I'm asking because I am assuming I would get these by email? Could someone please clarify?

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Okay thanks.

Any idea what the timelines are to go to get biometrics taken or any other appointments? I.e. it has to be within x amount of time? Wife is thinking of going around the beginning of June so don't want to be in any problems with any appointments etc. if we applied say this week.

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Hi everyone I hope you are all well and good! My wife who is a Pakistani national is over on a spouse visa and now has ILR and can apply for British Citizenship. She is thinking of going on holiday to Pakistan for a short while but we are worried that if we apply for Citizenship she may have to give...

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Hi everyone, I hope you are well! My wife is a Pakistani national here on a spouse visa (I am a British national). She has had a spouse visa, FLR-M, and then ILR and we are filling out the application. Just a few questions when filling in some of the questions on the form if you could help please: 1...

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I've done an upload of all the documents for the application.

What's needed at the appointment? Will a passport and national ID card do? This is for a Pakistani visit visa so the applicant will be visiting the center there.

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Hi everyone After applying for a visit visa you have to fill in a checklist that you need to take with you to the biometrics appointment. On this, there is a section where you can add other documents. I won't be able to fit all of these on the one page you are provided with. Would it be okay to prin...

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Hi everyone,

For a visit visa from Pakistan to the UK does the visitor need a tuberculosis test? It's just at the document upload section there is a section for this but nothing I have seen up till this point says one is required.

Please can you help/advise?

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Thanks for the replies.

I was just a bit worried as some countries want a minimum period valid on passports.

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Hi everyone

I hope you are good!

My question is will a Pakistani citizen with IRL visiting Pakistan at the end of March for about 2 weeks with a Pakistani passport expiring in June be a problem?

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Thank you all for your help and advice

Thanks for all the help so far. I've got another question. We are having difficulties getting a marriage certificate for my mother-in-law to show she got married. Her husband passed away several years ago. We have other documents for example a family registration certificate which shows the father a...