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...
Hmm. Well, in that case I guess it makes sense for you to wait until they reply to your email or demand additional documents, preferably providing some sort of reference number so they can match up your new documents with your existing application and other materials. Otherwise they might get confus...
It won't interfere with your citizenship. Already holding another citizenship doesn't prevent acquisition of British citizenship. Furthermore, the fact that they ask for your existing passport implies that they expect you to have a non-British citizenship already. Yes, it is a good idea for your fat...
Well, the only positive aspect of the robot people is that by their incessant roboticism they provide fodder for humour. Make us laugh, robot people. Now dance, dance, do your robotic dance for us!!
How about getting a Jamaican passport and sending that in as your passport? The British citizenship authorities are very refractory and it may actually be easier to obtain and then send in a Jamaican passport than to try to reason with them. I'm not saying that it's easy to get a Jamaican passport (...
You may be in a position to both naturalise and register. One reason to choose naturalisation might be that it gives you one advantage: the ability to pass British citizenship to your children born abroad. As you may already know, British citizenship is either 'by descent' or 'otherwise than by desc...
Ceelocsta - I think that the suggestion of bfrenchfry has merit. If you were born in Britain before 1983, you are already a British citizen and need only apply for a passport. If you were born after 1983, that is not the case (absolute jus soli was abolished) but have a look at this: https://www.gov...
Every time I think about FedEx I can't help suspecting that the film Castaway is an accurate representation of what is happening to our documents even as we speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJvosb4UCLs
A colour photocopy? We UKF people were definitely required to send our ORIGINAL passports and not a photocopy. That is why our passports are in the hands of the Home Office and we cannot go abroad for the biometrics without getting the passports back first - which appears exceedingly difficult. Wher...
By the way, I just wrote to that email address (NationalityBiometricsOverseas@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk) which was given on my 'biometric delay letter' as the only means of arranging for my passport to be sent back in order to do my biometrics outside the USA, and I received an auto-reply saying essenti...
Hello! So, how did you arrange for the biometric appointment in Canada, and how did you get your passport back? (Others on this thread have been experiencing problems in obtaining their passports back and in receiving any reply from that biometric email address we've been given as the only way to ar...
Yes, it seems that it's just a form letter which they send off in a hurry without checking its every word. As a person who works at a government office (though not a British one), I can attest that such offices have a number of letters on file, waiting to spring into action, and the busier the offic...
Hello mbianco, and also congratulations to paul29. Whenever someone (especially someone who has been waiting a long time) receives their citizenship through this route, it gives the rest of us hope that the system is actually working despite its glacial rate of activity. I've heard from people in th...
No, I have not got my biometrics letter yet because I am applying from the USA, as is bfrenchfry. All I've received is a letter saying that biometric centres have not been set up in the USA and therefore we will have to wait an indefinite amount of time until they decide to do their jobs and set the...
I used FedEx because I happen to live in America at the moment. Some people use DHL or UPS. Yes, they are more expensive but also safer because even registered (or whatever) post is often ineffective internationally because once the parcel goes into a foreign country it is passed on to the local pos...
Well, I've now also received what I presume is the same letter as bfrenchfry's. It states that they wrote to me in August explaining the delay in 'implementing' the biometric infrastructures in the USA (which is funny because they didn't contact me in August at all, unless the communication didn't r...
Not as far as I know. The crucial parameter is parentage - blood relation, descent - rather than linguistic proficiency. The tests are for people who have to naturalise (e.g. request nationality on the basis of residence in Britain, marriage etc) as far as I'm aware, but not for the children of Brit...
Thanks for the info. Although - how can we go abroad when THEY have our passports? Was there any mention of how we might get our passports back without wasting yet more months of our lives?
I'm getting exceedingly cheesed off with these creatures.
I wonder about the UKM applications. I haven't found a unified thread for them. They should be quite similar to ours, so if those are notably faster then something is really amiss. Could it really be that they prioritise people who paid more? Is it really about money? (I'm not saying it's not. It ju...
At any rate, it's definitely a good idea for those of us who are in Britain to speak to their MPs. Hopefully if enough MPs investigate this there will be some progress. Alas those of us who are abroad are unable to help in this particular way because we have no MPs, as it goes by residence. It's dee...