Thanks CR001. Looks like I will need to submit a new application. As I have plans to travel again in December I don t think I will be here when home office send me the Docgen 4746 letter to redate the application. If I don't go for the biometric appointment at all will it void my current application...

Hi neverme,
Can you please confirm how many days after your biometric appointment did you receive the letter from home office with the redate form?

Also was it sent in hard copy or via email?

Can someone please confirm which date is used to check if you were in the country exactly 3 years before? Is it the date the online application was submitted or is it the date you have the appointment at UKVCAS to submit biometrics and documents. I always thought its the latter and have submitted th...

I have applied for her British passport - waiting to receive it. Doing the homework for the next step :) For the birth certificate question - yes - it does mention birth certificate for passport Surrender certificate. It does not for OCI - for OCI it just mentions registration or naturalisation cert...

What supporting documents did you provide for the surrender certificate?

I am assuming since your daughter has british citizenship by descent you didn't have a naturalisation certificate for her?

I am in a similar situation and applying for a surrender certificate - so wanted to know.

Thanks.

Hi, My daughter was born in India but has British citizenship (by descent) from birth since I was a british citizen at the time of her birth. We got her a Certificate of entitlement to Right of Abode on her Indian passport. Now I am in the process of getting her an OCI. As a part of that I first nee...

Hi, This may probably sound like a stupid question but I need to fill in the SELT UER on the SET(O) form. The Trinity college FAQs state "If you took the exam after 18 August 2015 you will find the reference number on your certificate. For example: TCL/123456/123456/123456789 All reference numbers s...

Vinny - this paragraph in your post has confused me a bit - "Unlike the high profile changes to the absence criteria for ILR dependants announced at the same time, this new formula for calculating continuous residence will, in effect, be retrospective. Anyone applying for ILR on or after 11 January ...

Having applied for the COE myself I am still unclear in whether TB certificate is needed. Having said that we had included it with our application. Our baby was 4 weeks old then. If you are taking one it needs to be from a UKBA approved clinic. The doctor will not run any tests. They will just have ...

Hi sandhya, As far I remember from the time I was doing the research the non acquisition of British citizenship certificate is required only if the child is born in uk and you are applying for an Indian passport here in uk... check those forums again you will probably see this mentioned some where. ...

Hi Sandhya, I don’t think physical presence of the father is needed as long as all the documentation is there. The VFS guys wouldn’t care who is accompanying the child for the submission. If you fill in your name in the declaration on the form it should be enough. However a note to highlight is that...

Thanks for the advice guys - makes things clear to me!

Hi I am not sure if this is the right section to post this question but I did not find any better. I am looking for guidance on visitor visa that I am planning to apply for my parents so that they can visit me in the UK. We want them in the UK so that they can help us with our 4 month old daughter. ...

As with everything else there is no "mandatory" list of documents to be submitted. The documents need to be sufficient enough for the case officer to take a decision. Parents’ full birth certificate, registration or naturalization certificate is listed as one of the documents which the applicant "ca...

Hi, Documents that I had submitted where - 1. Baby's original passport 2. Baby's full birth certificate 3. Our marriage certificate 4. My wife's birth certificate 5. My naturalisation certificate 6. My employment reference letter 7. Salary slips for past 6 months 8. Bank statements for past 6 months...

The application for the right of abode for my daughter has been successful. Related to the above - we stated the nationality as Indian in the application and No for any other nationalities. We had no issues with that in getting the ROA approved. Just a note for anyone else who is in the process or w...

The application for the right of abode for my daughter has been successful. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has helped in along the way. It took roughly 3 weeks to get this through but that was because of a hiccup in between. Without it we probably would have got in around 2 weeks. Just a ...

I have recently applied for a visa for my daughter which is under processing. I have been recently been contacted by the british high commission asking for some additional documentation to be sent to the address : NewDelhi.VisaEvidentialFlexibilityReply@fco.gov.uk? I have sent the required informati...

Hi Polecat, When you were dealing with this did you happen to send an email to NewDelhi.VisaEvidentialFlexibilityReply@fco.gov.uk? if yes - did you get any automated acknowledgement that your mail was received or any other acnowledgement? I have recently sent some information to this mail address fo...

Hi, I have recently applied for a visa for my parents at Mumbai VFS, India. I remember when I had done the same about 4 years ago - there used to be a link where I could check the status of the application online. I can no longer find that link. FAQs on VFS website mentions that progress will be int...

Hi, I am applying for a UK visa for my daughter (2 months old) and have filled up the online application form on the VFS site. After completing the form - it asks for a declaration to be signed. There is text box for signature in which we need to enter a name. The signature on the hardcopy form will...

"What documents to submit? and under nationality should I say my daughter is British or Indian? The nationality should be stated as British. Commonwealth citizens born on/after 1983 would have no claim to the Right of Abode. The CoERoA would be issued under Regulation 6 of the Immigration (Certifica...

Hi Richard, I agree with what you are saying and also agree that we may mention current nationality as Indian based on the travel document. However in that case shouldnt the answer to the second question "do you hold any other nationality" be a YES and the other nationality being British. As you sta...

Hi Shrikant, Hima and Naveen, I am in the process of filling up the application for COE to ROA for my child and I had a question around the question of nationality. I had assumed that the nationality should be British and we can mention Indian as "other nationality". The point being that we are aski...

In the passport renewal online form there are 2 addresses to be mentioned - Address to be printed on passport and Other address. Does anyone know what we need to fill in the "Other address"? Does it need to be the UK address or we can mention the same Indian address we want to be printed on the pass...