My wife and I are naturalised British Citizens and recently had a child who was born in India. I'm posting my entire experience as I've greatly benefitted from this forum. Firstly, I was incredibly anxious going into the whole application process given the official guideline from HMPO in terms of ...

Step 1 is to wait for the British Passport to arrive. This can take anywhere from 2 to 6+ months and there doesn't seem to be any "magic" set of documents or requirements that you can fulfil in order to change that timeline. In case you haven done so, you need to also email your local FRRO office ...

Thank you. Indeed there was no way to ‘choose’ a particular route. I just provide all the details along with a cover letter that would cover both scenarios so hopefully this should be okay.

Hi all, I’m a British citizen and my wife received her ILR 2 years ago. However owing to long absences from the country during Covid we didn’t apply for citizenship for my wife immediately after ILR at the time (I was already a british citizen when she received her ILR). Now, she fulfills all the req ...

My wife was in the same situation. We applied for her ILR recently, wrote a detailed cover letter to explain the circumstances and included proofs. We quoted the following from the Appendix Continuous Residence Guidance (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix ...

Applied for ILR Route: Set (O) Tier 2 General Dependant Date application sent: 18 Jan 2021 Type of application: Standard Date document submitted: 27 Jan 2021 Biometrics Submitted: 27 Jan 2021 (London Victoria) Decision email received: 8 Feb 2021 BRP Card Received: 12 Feb 2021 We applied for my wife ...