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by Antsmall
Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:35 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)
Replies: 14912
Views: 4468095

Re: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

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 ...
by Antsmall
Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:33 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: VFS Global biometric appointment system doesn't work.
Replies: 6
Views: 3723

Re: VFS Global biometric appointment system doesn't work.

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 ...
by Antsmall
Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:32 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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 ...
by Antsmall
Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:44 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)
Replies: 14912
Views: 4468095

Re: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

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 ...
by Antsmall
Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:50 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: VFS Global biometric appointment system doesn't work.
Replies: 6
Views: 3723

Re: VFS Global biometric appointment system doesn't work.

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...
by Antsmall
Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:32 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)
Replies: 14912
Views: 4468095

Re: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

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...
by Antsmall
Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:28 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: VFS Global biometric appointment system doesn't work.
Replies: 6
Views: 3723

VFS Global biometric appointment system doesn't work.

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...
by Antsmall
Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:20 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)
Replies: 14912
Views: 4468095

Re: Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

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...
by Antsmall
Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:11 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: UKM applicants for BC--what is "too long" a wait from UKBA?
Replies: 67
Views: 6769

Re: UKM applicants for BC--what is "too long" a wait from UK

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...
by Antsmall
Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:45 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:00 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:28 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:02 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

Some of us are still waiting for biometrics even after seven months. Or perhaps just one of us.
by Antsmall
Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:25 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:28 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:38 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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.
by Antsmall
Sun Dec 06, 2015 3:10 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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 ...
by Antsmall
Fri Nov 27, 2015 9:54 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Fri Nov 27, 2015 9:12 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:38 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:11 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:53 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
by Antsmall
Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:23 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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!! :)
by Antsmall
Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:04 am
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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 (...
by Antsmall
Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:42 pm
Forum: British Citizenship
Topic: New citizenship form UKF
Replies: 1173
Views: 163189

Re: New citizenship form UKF

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...
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