Simply show the police report about your lost/stolen passport and your current passport to the immigration officer, explain that you were here on holiday and you lost your passport and all should be well.
Aah, ok, that makes sense now. In that case I would stay well away from the Home Office. I really think your best bet is to go to your nearest police station, file a lost/stolen passport report and then go apply for a new/temporary passport from your embassy. I seriously doubt that you have anything...
Well Jeff, if there is nothing dodgy going on here, and everything is above board as you say, then you should have nothing to fear by either a) approaching the Home Office directly for your passport or b) filing a police report for a lost/stolen passport. However when asking board members what is th...
I would imagine that you would have to go in person to report a lost/stolen passport to the police. If you are indeed South African then here is the link to the page on the South African embassies website on how to get a new passport if your passport has been lost or stolen: http://www.southafricaho...
Jeff, I think you gave to accept the fact that you're not getting your passport back from the Home Office. If I was in your situation (and it's still not entirely clear what exactly that situation is) I would get a temporary passport from your country (given the 3 months you quote to get a new passp...
Jeff, no offence mate, but both you and your story sound a bit dodgy. You don't mention how you got to the UK in the first place and what visa you were on here initially. Conclusion: if you haven't had your passport in 8 years then the only logical conclusion is that you are an illegal immigrant as ...
A passport is just a physical manifestation of your citizenship, whether you hold a passport or not doesn't change the material fact that you are a citizen. I'm pretty sure that when you have to give an undertaking that your child doesn't hold the passport of another country that they actually mean ...
4 - 5 weeks? That's luxury! My (the South African) embassy currently advises that it takes 4 - 5 months to issue a new passport and as one poster posted here the other day, his country isn't even issuing passports at the moment because of a lack of ink and blank booklets. So count yourself lucky.
An important point to realise is that if you obtain British citizenship and get a right of abode sticker in your Indian passport you are breaking INDIAN law and not British law. In terms of Indian law you automatically lose your Indian citizenship when you acquire British citizenship and therefore i...
Here is the official US government's view on dual citizenship: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html Seems officially they frown on dual citizenship but do not explicitly prohibit it. You can only lose your US citizenship if you acquire the citizenship of another country with th...
Third, there must be some understanding or standardised legal interpretation of the not participating and not bound by or subject to expressions. Well, if the Schengen agreement is anything to go by, then I doubt other member states will recognise a UK residence permit. The UK and Ireland kind of w...
If you read it, it seems to imply that the UK, Ireland and Denmark are not bound by it in the sense that they would not have to recognise the residence permit of another EU country, but there is nothing to say that even if these 3 countries opt out, that other EU member countries wouldn't recognise ...
Does anyone have any idea if the implementation of this directive might hopefully allow UK permanent residents who ordinarily require Schegen visas to travel to the rest of the EU to travel without requiring one? Hopefully it will because the current situation is ridiculous. If you are a UK permanen...
You asked if a national of Japan needs a visa to come to the UK as a wife. Yes, you need a visa. Please read Guidance - Husbands, Wives and Partners for more information. To apply for a visa you will need to fill in form VAF2 - Settlement. If you are a national of, or are normally and legally livin...
Yes, I doubt the actual ILR applications are fraudulent as it's actually quite difficult to make a fraudulent ILR application because the proof required is based on your previous visa/work permit applications. Either you qualify for ILR or you don't. However I would imagine (I obviously don't know f...
Well, the penalty for becoming a citizen of another country without first applying for permission from the South African embassy in London is that you automatically lose your South African citizenship HOWEVER you do not lose your right to live and work in South Africa as anyone who was or is South A...
Any idea what kind of fraud is ocurring? I assume the fraud in question must relate the original application for UK ancestry upon which the ILR is being applied for, and not for the actual ILR application itself.
You could take the test, but what if the rules change again (which is always likely with the goverment using immigration as a political football)? It could be a different test, or the test could be abolished, or some other silly requirement could be imposed.
Yes, South Africa has this requirement too. However they only require a letter from the Home Office stating that you have not taken up British Citizenship IF you have been in the UK for more than 5 years (or 3 years if you are married to a British citizen). However, if you *lose* your passport, they...
Yes I agree with you, it's preferable not to break the law. However I'm a big believer in privacy and non-interference by the state (any state) and personally I don't think my aquisition of another country's citizenship is any concern or business of the South African government regardless of what th...
Don't you think you're giving the Indian government too much credit by thinking they will actually even find out about your British citizenship? My country, South Africa, while not outrightly forbidding dual citizenship, requires you to apply for a letter of permission to aquire the citizenship of a...
My net salary was about £1600 pounds. I would also like to add that although the ILR application does not mention it as a required document, I was asked to produce my original work permit. Luckily I brought it with me as I'd read of this happening on an earlier post in this forum. So be warned, they...
Hiya, I've just recently successfully applied for ILR at Croydon (13th January 2006) after being in the UK for 4 years on a work permit working for one employer. I was particularly nervous about the bank statement requirement as I have no savings and my bank statement only showed a balance of £70! H...
