Hi Kundan, please let us also know how you circumvent this situation.

My wife is in the same situation. Only surrender cert and no renunciation cert. Seems like a new requirement put in place only for collecting more monies.

@Anu_5678 I am sorry to read about your situation. I hope you have received a positive outcome today. Sah10406's is right with the 4 options. My nephew is in a different, but slightly related situation. He appealed and the outcome was successful and is still waiting to know if he has option a) or op...

Hello all, re: ATAS certificate unavailable until later and my visa expires on 30th Jan (next Tuesday) My nephew is an international student who arrived in September 2022 to study for his Masters in Aerospace Eng. The university has approved his appeal and he can resit his elective papers in the nex...

{My wife submitted her naturalisation application today} ------------------x--------------------- Eligibility criteria: Spouse of British citizen. Over 3 years on ILR. Language criteria: Trinity College GCSE B1 Nationality: Non-EU Method of application: Online Application + Sopra Steria, so uploaded...

tl;dr Your nephew can get dedicated professional advice on his visa application from the international student advice team at the University of Manchester. That's their job and their expertise. That is far more sensible than his aunt's husband crowdsourcing visa advice from random strangers on a on...

Hi all, 2 questions: 1) How long should the maintenance fund be maintained prior to the date of visa application? 2) Is it enough if the bank provide a letter stating that the funds required for maintenance (£1023 x 9) has been approved, letter dated 28 days (or 2 months) prior to date of applicatio...

Update: I managed to get through to the Consular General in Edinburgh and reached out to him directly by writing to him @ hoc.edinburgh@mea.gov.in Given my circumstances, I was given an emergency appointment at the VFS office and I submitted my visa application on Monday the 20th of September when t...

Update: Received my OCI card last week on Thursday the 7th of October. I had submitted my application in Edinburgh on the 6th of September.

Thank you @dontrngthebell. From a quick search, I found oci.edinburgh@mea.gov.in. So have written to them as a matter of urgency. If no response I will write to HCI, London.

Thanks for the quick response @rainbowbutterfly and @dontringthebell. I submitted my application at the VFS office in Edinburgh and did not receive such an e-mail from helpdesk-oci@nic.in. I am sure there is an equivalent with which I shall make contact. Also, per the suggestion of @dontringthebell,...

Hi all, I will have to travel to India due to a personal emergency. My mom has been diagnosed Covid+ and very likely my dad will be too when he gets tested. I want to be around to support them during this time. I submitted my OCI application on the 6th September and with the current normal processin...

Update:
I received my original British passport back on Friday last week, which is not bad, considering I had submitted the application on Monday last week.

Now to wait for the OCI to arrive within the next 3 to 4 weeks' time.

Hi all, I submitted my OCI application to Edinburgh VSF this morning. Had an 8:45 appointment and was the 2nd person to be there, was relatively quiet and deserted when I got there at 8:45 this morning. After completing my application form Part-A and Part-B online, documents category and documents u...

1) Did you upload supporting docs as is without self-attestation? and then self-attest the supporting docs when you handed them in person? I did not attest either, neither is it required and nor was I asked. 2) Was it the same set of docs that you uploaded and then handed in person? I submitted pho...

Since all three of us had direct claim to OCI as in we all held indian passport prior to acquiring british citizenship, Last Indian passport was sufficient.Let me share the list of documents I uploaded for each one of us corresponding to the given fields. The list below is everything I uploaded for...

Congratulations and thanks for taking the time to share your experience. Very useful. What did you submit for Relationship Certificate? It comes up as birth certificate. I am applying for myself and my birth certificate issued in India does not have my name on it! Yes, that's right. So I don't think...

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Hi all, I was filling out a reference application for a friend's daughter's UK passport renewal application, a naturalised British citizen. After completing the application, I realised that I answered incorrectly to two questions: 1. How do you know the applicant: I incorrectly thought this to be as...

Spend some time here To answer your questions, 1. The Tier 1 route is closed now, but only you could apply for the Tier 1 in the past or have an agent do it for you. 2. Now there is the Tier 2 route for which you must have at job offer in hand in prior and the employer must be willing to sponsor you...

Go to a O2 / T-Mobile store or Carphone Warehouse and ask the sales person to explain the different types of contracts, features in phones etc. Try finding scenarios where you can have the sales person explain services to you, try asking him questions. This will definitely help in addition to watchi...

@ tier1gnrl, I understand your anxiety. Do not worry. They cannot stop your entry and it's perfectly legal to come in with 2 months left on your visa and look out for a job, while applying for your extension (which is Tier1 general in this case). If they ask if you have a job, tell them about the gr...

@anandpathak To your question, regarding if you should lie and write a falsifying statement, NO, you shouldn't, if your consultant A has really submitted you to the client as he has claimed. If consultant A provides feedback saying they are 'awaiting response' then that is probably really the case. ...

Remember to carry your chest X-ray report if you are travelling from India.

@ Rathore, Other folks have provided enough information regarding the visitor visa route. But just wanted to make a point about the dependent visa. A friend of mine applied for a dependent visa recently and got it in 5 days. Refer, http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=444417&highlight=#4...

@KP

That does make sense from the companies perspective. Keeping it clean from their end.

@ganesh46

Sorry, I don't know him personally, just heard about this from my friend.