It's just so hilarious how uniformly incompetent these people are. Looking at the tragicomic amount of work that you had to do in order to accomplish what should have been a routine task, and the number of instances in which they got things wrong or didn't even bother to respond in any way, I recall...
I completed my biometrics yesterday in the Vancouver VFS Global facility, whose address is: Oceanic Plaza, 1066 West Hastings Street, Suite 2000 Vancouver, BC, V6E 3X2 Canada (Yes, I know: Hastings, 1066. Ha ha. I suppose it makes the address easier to remember). Suite 2000 is on the 20th floor. Lea...
Thanks for the info. I suppose they want the confirmation of delivery that comes with registered mail, but it wouldn't kill them to send us a pdf by email as well so we could be happy a little sooner (and then send us the original by post, no problem). One could argue that sending pdfs to everyone w...
Do these approval notices arrive by email or by post? If by post, are they by normal post or megagalactic registered post? I'm sorry to hear that bfrenchfry is still waiting after nine months. I'm at eight months and only now received my biometric letter (by email), and that only after having reques...
No, I chose Canada because I'd read through what others on this forum had experienced (including the one in the post that you gave in your message, saying that the VFS Global people had said that we should choose Canada) and I went according to what they reported. But thanks for taking the time to r...
Thanks again! In general (I say this after having poked about for a while on the VFS website), it seems that if you go to this page http://www.vfsglobal.co.uk/Global/ and choose a country and then go to 'feedback and complaints', you will get a page like this http://www.vfsglobal.co.uk/Canada/feedb ...
Contributor Will47786 found an email for the Canadian VFS Global people. Here's what he has to say: Try this email address it might help. I used it and got a reply. Put the subject line of ATTENTION DUTY MANAGER. Keep sending them the same email until someone replies. I also put my phone numbers in ...
Contributor Will47786 found an email for the Canadian VFS Global people. Here's what he has to say: Try this email address it might help. I used it and got a reply. Put the subject line of ATTENTION DUTY MANAGER. Keep sending them the same email until someone replies. I also put my phone numbers in ...
Thanks very much, Will, and good luck to us all! :) This is useful to all citizenship applicants abroad, whether by registration or naturalisation. Try this email address it might help. I used it and got a reply. Put the subject line of ATTENTION DUTY MANAGER. Keep sending them the same email until ...
Thanks very much for your swift reply. If nothing else transpires, I'll turn up in Vancouver, laden with divers paperwork and sundry accoutrements, hoping that they act human about this and let me get the thing done. Does anyone have an email address or (the effrontery) a phone number for contacting...
I only replied to this thread because someone on it had mentioned an email address for contacting the VFS Global people and I can find no such email address; therefore I asked for that email address. I think this is relevant to everyone who has to deal with the VFS people, whether through naturalisa...
The VFS Global appointment system doesn't seem to work. I am an applicant for British citizenship by descent (route UKF - through my father) and I applied in May, so now I have been waiting an incredible eight months even though my application is astoundingly straightforward and I provided more than...
Will, what was the 'generic email address' that you used to contact VFS Global? I can't even find that, and their incredibly shoddy website won't let me book a biometric appointment even though they took my money (that is one part of their website which mysteriously works). Basically I have waited e...
The VFS Global appointment system doesn't seem to work. I am a UKF applicant (same as UKM but through fathers) and I applied in May, so now I have been waiting an incredible eight months even though my application is astoundingly straightforward and I provided more than the documentation they requir...
Well, yet another problem has arisen, and I hope that someone can help me. I finally received my biometric letter by email (nearly two months after attempting to request it, mind you) and, with short-lived jubilation, I followed all the instructions on the VFS Global website. I created an account, c...
Thanks. I am so very sick of the Home Office's invariable incompetence and unaccountability and I hope that I too can benefit from the law that I helped to create after so many years of struggle and heartache. Good luck to us all, and may we soon be in a position never to have to deal with these dit...
I've been waiting for eight months and they haven't even sent me a biometrics letter. I live in the USA and I asked for a biometrics letter for Vancouver, like so many applicants here, and I still have nothing. (And I am one of the small number of people whose years of campaigning actually brought a...
At least if you've been waiting for more than six months you can talk to an Actual Person; however, that is of little use (even through the Nationality Hotline) because, as I was told last time I called about them sending me my documents in error with NO BIOMETRICS LETTER and losing my passport, the...
The Home Office Nationality Hotline (or some such similar name) is 0300 123 2253 (choose option 1). If you call the 0300 123 2241 number (which they give on their letters and which is on this page http://contactnumbers.guru/home-office/ too) you'll just have to stay on hold for ages before being tol...
Whereas I wrote to the same email address in November with a few QUESTIONS, and they did not send me a biometric letter, sent me back all my documents in error which I didn't request (without mentioning biometrics), and lost both my passport and my father's passport.
I am in considerable distress. After receiving the letter about the delays in biometric what-have-you in the USA, giving me the option of having my biometrics done in Canada or Mexico and providing only the usual unresponsive email address if I wanted to discuss this further, I emailed that address ...
No, I don't have British citizenship yet. My parents' marriage wasn't considered valid by the British authorities (because it was a church marriage) and IF they had married civilly before my 18th birthday I would have been 'rehabilitated' and given British citizenship as if they had married (civilly...
It is my understanding that, as in the previous person's case, this person also does not need the UKF citizenship route. She can simply apply for a passport by following the rules for first-time passport applications (which are a bit more stringent than the ones for passport renewals). She should be...
You do not have to go through the UKF route because your parents married before your eighteenth birthday. Therefore, apply directly for a passport, using your birth certificate and your parents' marriage certificate (and whatever other documents they want). Use 'long forms' of all documents wherever...
