Hi everyone, I recently applied for my British passport after completing the citizenship ceremony a week ago. I have done the application online, upload photo and verified my identity through a friend etc. Then I was instructed to send my documents to the following address: HM Passport Office UK-EDP ...

Hello everyone, I met with one of my referees (referee from a professional job background) to get a signature for the form for citizenship application. This referee is an ex colleague and a long time friend but I didn't know that he had three given names. So he added his three given names and the ...

Thanks again, Do you have an idea about the last item? "3. Referee declaration document has this phrasing: "This part of the form is to be filled in by the applicant’s referees once their photograph has been attached, as explained above." I assume from all other usages in the document that `their` ...

Thanks for redacting that out : ).

I renewed my passport on 2022, I assume they would require my older passport too then?

And yes I used the same language certificate for ILR application too.

Thanks again!

Hi everyone, I'm at the documents gathering stage of my citizenship application. I have few questions: 1. The application checklist has this evidence: "Proof of living in the UK for Mr xxxxx for 5 years if applying in your own right". How do I prove this? By attaching my older BRPs in a document or ...

Hi everyone, I am doing my citizenship form these days and I now realised exactly 5 years ago, I had a 10 day visit to my home country. (between 13.04.2018 and 22.04.2018) There is a condition on the form that I'm quoting here: "You must have been in the UK on the first day of your 3-year or 5-year ...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to complete the citizenship application form in gov uk. I'm now at the point where it asks me about my previous applications. I have two questions: 1- Do I list all of my immigration history with UK here? I was on the Tier 2 Skilled Worker route, so do I list them all ...

Hi everyone, I'd like to thank the members of the forum for the detailed answers I got when I asked several questions regarding the ILR process. It helped me a lot and really reduced my anxiety about the process. I'd like to make a donation for the help I got, so I was wondering if there'd be a ...

Hi everyone, I have ten days to go before my biometric appointment for ILR and have two (alarming) questions: 1. I just realised while reviewing my annual leave letter from a previous employment that I missed to report one instance of absence of an abroad vacation (of 10 days). I cannot go back and ...

Hi everyone, I am going to be attending my Biometric appointment for ILR shortly. I will upload all my supporting and mandatory documents online. I am a bit confused whether to bring the uploaded documents to the appointment. The email I received from UKVCAS states: All your supporting documents ...

Hi Everyone, I'm in the process of applying for ILR with my current Tier 2 visa. I haven't stayed 180 days in any given 12 month periods even during covid pandemic. But when I list all my travels, the application asked me the following in the "Other documents" section: Letter(s) from employer(s ...

Thanks Vinny, new to this forum, only figured out the links now. So much stuff, I wonder if this is mentioned anywhere else outside the guidance pdf document. Thanks a lot for the reply though.

Hi Vinny, what do you mean? Which bit is unnecessary?

Hi everyone, I have a 5 year old IELTS C1 Level UKVI Academic test result which I used for my initial Tier-2 Entry visa. I'm now about to start my application in two months for ILR. Can I reuse this test since it's C1 scored and from IELTS London? Did anyone reuse their test and made it ok? Any post ...