HRS » Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:01 pm I got the information I needed to review prior to applying from HMPO in their refusal letter: "Please see the attached link for our policy. Unfortunately as you have changed your name on your British passport into your married name, we will require your [x] passport to...

All the trumpets and fanfares at the beginning of this very long thread and I can tell you: nowt has changed. My wife is of Vietnamese origin. In her passport her name is as it is done in Vietnam: In this order: Family name, middle name No. 2, Middle name No. 1, given name . From day 1, applying to ...

My wife had much the same sort of experience. In her case it was bio metrics. Receiving the '2nd' letter it said words along the lines that she had failed to respond to the 1st (which she never did receive) and this 2nd was the 'final' notification. Given how much BC etc applications cost, I don't t...

You can contact them but if they have't got the info from the HO, you'll still have to wait until they have. It really is best to do it by the book i.e. wait for the letter from the HO. Once that arrives you then contact the place you asked for. It seems there is a time limit to attend as I was told...

That's part of the problem, you don't use the BRP to exit the UK. You just get your foreign passport stamped on the way out (to say you've exited the UK). Without the BRP, It was decided rather than have problems boarding a plane 6000 miles away, we'd scrap the trip. Inconvenient yes, but having see...

Interesting read and yes, it might have become common knowledge about BRP to some but it is still a trap that people (my wife being one) can fall in to. If the BRP is going to be dead once you get your naturalisation certificate, why bother to have yet another set of biometrics taken as part of the ...