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I would seriously recommend you try and get some details/documentation from your father but that's your personal choice of course. Otherwise you will have to create your own document trail, meaning applying for PR (which should be easy), then citizenhip & Passport. Unfortunately expensive. As was pointed out the Home Office goes by regulations strictly ... Obviously I stand corrected if I said something what isn't right.wellwellwell wrote: ↑Mon Nov 19, 2018 3:19 pmHi all,
So after a bit more learning I have found that my parents both must have had ILR or PR because they took out a mortgage in the years before I was born. Apparently you would not be able to do this if you were not "settled"?
Just trying to find/access/potentially order some documents to send to prove this was true around the time of my birth.
During the 1980s I got my mortgage, loans, credit cards, I was never asked for ILR/PR or similar, not even my passport in most cases...regulations have tightened up since then. Don't want to be negative but I doubt there will be any useful documentation available from those sources, and most of it will have been shredded.
Are P45/national insurance numbers of my parents of any use here?
Home Office will only accept documents that directly confirm their, or your, status. Unfortunately they will not accept long residence as proof for anything, not even for English language proficiency.
(p.s.I phoned a helpline for advice, they mentioned potentially doing a "subject access request" as an option (https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... mmigration) but would prefer not to go down this route as this could take months, it will confirm my parents settled status but don't think it will give me a document I can use to send to apply for a British passport.)
Again, records won't have been kept for that many years back, not even by the Home Office, and it was well documented in the news that they have been destroying potentially useful documents.
Thanks for any advice.
wellwellwell wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:31 pmHi everyone,
Good news - I have found the certificate of registration of my maternal grandparents. So happy and relieved. This is the certificate of registration as British Citizens, or certifying permanent unlimited residence? Was this issued by the Home Office?
Just wondering what, if anything else I should send to show that this means my mother also had settled status by default. There is a picture of my mother with my grandmother in my grandmothers certificate of registration, but can’t seem to find any details about my mother on the document. Perhaps you could quote the exact wording (all but without personal details?
Will one of my grandmothers passports with my mother help here?
Thanks!