You should be fine. You can also write a cover letter to include with your scanned documents, explaining that as a refugee, you have the UK-issued travel document and that your passport/any other documents are with the Home Office, etc. The form is designed for everyone and can't tell the difference...
Question: You said HO wrote to you to send the TD back. Which address was that? Please can you confirm? As BP docs are sent to HMPO so I am just wondering if to send the TD with the BP application to HMPO and it will reach where it has to. They sent me an address label with the letter requesting th...
Question : Does she have to return the Home Office Travel Documents (blue refugee convention document) at this stage or later? Thank you Back in December 2018, after I had my ceremony and while my passport application was pending, the HO wrote to me requesting that I send the TD to them. They then ...
When I applied, they treated my CTD as a passport, so I had to send it in. But they also told me that it's HO policy to keep CTDs and not return them. They kept mine. It may be worth making copies of the CTD and any visas you have.
May I ask how long your naturalisation applications took to process pls? Cos I saw a thread saying refugee naturalisation applications tend to take longer than usual to process and get approval. I submitted mine 15th of July last month. I waited 2.5 months or thereabouts but that was just before th...
1stGenMEBrit, I gave them basic information of who I am (name, birth date, British passport no), basic details of the documents I was requesting (name on the passport, their numbers, country), and a postal address. I only a short 2-sentence description of the circumstances, e.g. 'passports were reta...
Please anyone can advice that if I submit Uk travel documents for first British passport and as I got Refugee status, will HMPO mention anything on observations page ie travel documents or Refugee status in my first British passport I've successfully submitted my Travel Document instead of passport...
I've had good results complaining to the ICO and having them chastise the HO. The SAR file turned up just a few days after the ICO took it up. This is where the process starts: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/your-personal-information-concerns/ They do ask to have evidence that you asked the HO ...
... but most EU countries do allow visa free visit. Not quite right there, Zimba, sorry. I travelled to (or wanted to travel to) various EU countries while on a TD and it looked like this: Finland and Fermany didn't ask for a visa; France, Italy, Cyprus and Czechia wanted a visa. It varies A LOT an...
This discussion doesn't have much of a point, given the sample data we're operating with. That is to say, this forum is only visited by a very small number of all people applying, refugees included. We do not and cannot know from this forum what the experience is like for most people. To know this, ...
The UK passport people do not allow you to have two passports in two different names. They will ask you to change your Greek passport to your married name before they'll issue you with a UK passport in your married name (you'll have to send your Greek passport to them when applying for first British...
I see you applied on 18 February. There is no delay to your application so far- these are perfectly normal time frames. Also consider the 2 bank holidays in May and the long Easter holidays when calculating how long you've waited. The post from the HO also takes up to 3 weeks to arrive, so your appr...
Hi Guys, Just wanted to check if anyone else in the same situation as me. Please see below for details related to my case. I came here as student, claimed asylum before visa expired and was accepted as refugee in 2011. Never worked illegally and never overstayed no negative record at all as far as ...
Assuming you don't already hold an HO Travel Document for which you applied for post-ILR grant? Just apply for a regular Travel Document via the normal procedure - you're not eligible for a British passport until after you've attended your citizenship ceremony. So normal rules apply until then. Howe...
Hello, I submitted my TD with my British passport application and the Home Office retained it, saying that was their policy. I then wrote them an email requesting my old (expired) passport back stating that the reason I wanted it was access to old visas (I needed to give details of previous visas on...
It should be enough. If both you and your employer say you didn't work then what can the HO do? Keep a copy of that letter if you do get it, just in case (a copy of the previous letter would have been so useful!) If you can't get it, you could make a note in the more information box that you've prev...
I didn't provide any payslips or P60s as they would have been redundant. Your travel document is fine to prove residence, since as you say, there are no gaps and presumably it has all the stamps. I can't comment on the visa extension much, except to say that if you did everything on time and never w...
Hello, I had a similar immigration history (student-refugee-ILR-Citizenship) and I had no trouble. Your travel document should be fine to prove you were in the country all the time, but make sure you haven't got gaps between Travel Documents. For example, I had a gap after applying for ILR, so I pro...
Don't panic! There have been plenty of people here who forgot something and posted it to the HO later - it worked out just fine in most cases. Here are the questions: Have you made any previous UK immigration applications in the UK or abroad? - Yes Then for each application, give these details: [*]N...
Since you are in the same position as refugee status please can you comment on my previous post above where I have requested for an advice to travel to home country for wife after British passport? You can find my post 5/6 posts behind this one. Will appreciate. Thank you I have no idea about the a...
But my wife applied for ILR in Oct 2017 and approved in Feb 2018 so we have that home office reference letter which covers it. Daughter was born in UK who is British Citizen now in Dec 2017. We can back up the other period from Feb 2018 - July 2018 with Child Birth Certifice, Childs MN1 BC applicat...
I applied as a refugee, with no passport and two travel documents. They were accepted just fine. You wife's sound fine too as they have all the stamps. Just make sure there aren't any gaps between the different travel documents and if there are, provide other evidence such as letters from GPs/hospit...
Hi gala7, People usually advise here to disclose everything if you're in doubt. However, I had a late tax payment penalty too, I didn't disclose it and my application was approved just fine. My justification for it was that the late tax penalty didn't fit any of the fines and penalties they asked to...
