Removing Lawyer from BC and Registration Application

erodigie wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:08 am

Good morning all.

I sent in 2 applications to the Home Office in January 2019 - one to register my daughter as a British Citizen in and the second was my application for British Citizenship.

I used the postal route and also used a lawyer because my daughters visa had expired in December 2018 and I had put in an application on hold while I was still waiting for a decision on my ILR application at the time. I wanted to keep it consistent as there was currently an application for her in the system and also to ensure that I am able to get the previous application fees back.

Unfortunately, the lawyer has not handled my application as expected and this has delayed the whole application process by more than a month. After the application fee was taken from my account around the middle of February, I prompted him several times that we should have first received an payment acknowledgment and also letter for biometrics (I know this because I closely follow the timeline for BC and registration applications generously made available for us on this website). Most times he would ignore me and at a point, after several weeks, I sent a few emails to the Home Office to request for acknowledgement.

Home Office responded to me immediately and sent me an acknowledgement. Also on Tuesday 19th, the lawyer contacted me to say they had just received my letter for biometrics. He sent a picture of the letter and it was dated 11th of March and the letter stated that I had 10 working days from the date of that letter to submit my biometrics details, meaning I had to do it by the 22nd. The letter also stated that they had sent a previous one which gave me 15 working days to which I never responded nor gave any reasons for not doing it. I asked the lawyer to post the letter to me urgently or at least send me a scanned copy so that I can go to the Post Office and get it done immediately. The letter was only eventually posted yesterday. I am yet to receive it and today is Thursday. I don't even know if I can meet the Friday deadline.

I am very disappointed and would like to deal with the Home Office directly. My question is... how do I remove the lawyer from my case please? Would the Home Office accept an email from me to deal with me directly and send all future correspondence to me?

Please advise.


Thank you.

erodigie wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:49 am

Thank you Youngobi.

I don’t have the letter at the moment. I am now based in London while he is in Scotland. In fact at the moment I think he is out of the country so I can’t really go to the office.

Would it be best to call, email or to send a written letter to the Home Office?