Renewed passport

We cannot transfer your residence permit to your new passport at passport control when you enter the UK. If you can prove that you are entitled to live here, the immigration officer at your port of entry will put a date stamp in your new passport. You must then send us an application form asking us to place a residence permit in your new passport. You must be in the UK when you make this application.

If the residence permit in your old passport says that you have permission to settle permanently in the UK (called 'indefinite leave to remain'), you must apply for a 'no time limit' (NTL) stamp using form NTL. You can download this form and a detailed guide from the right side of this page.
If the residence permit in your old passport says that you have permission to be in the UK for a limited period (called 'limited leave to remain'), you must apply for a 'transfer of conditions' (TOC) stamp using form TOC. You can download this form and a detailed guide from the right side of this page. You will also need to apply for a compulsory identity card.

*FC* wrote:Dear all,

Well, a quick confirmation question. I got my Indian passport renewed recently and I have both New and Old passports with me. However, the UK Tier 1 visa is on Old passport and is valid till 2011 April.
I do understand that I can carry both of them together and then will need to produce both at immigration.

However, the following note in the linkbelow confuses me:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/while ... -passport/

We cannot transfer your residence permit to your new passport at passport control when you enter the UK. If you can prove that you are entitled to live here, the immigration officer at your port of entry will put a
date stamp in your new passport. You must then send us an application form asking us to place a residence permit in your new passport. You must be in the UK when you make this application.

If the residence permit in your old passport says that you have permission to settle permanently in the UK (called 'indefinite leave to remain'), you must apply for a 'no time limit' (NTL) stamp using form NTL. You can download this form and a detailed guide from the right side of this page.
If the residence permit in your old passport says that you have permission to be in the UK for a limited period (called 'limited leave to remain'), you must apply for a 'transfer of conditions' (TOC) stamp using form TOC. You can download this form and a detailed guide from the right side of this page. You will also need to apply for a compulsory identity card.

So my question is, do I have to get a TOC done?! Or am i fine with just my Old and new passports together?!

FC

dima wrote: you should be fine with both the passports. On the other hand, you can go for TOC if time permits. In this situation I would have gone for TOC....

Transferring your visa to a new passport wrote:You do not need to transfer your residence permit to your new passport. If you choose not to transfer your permit, you should carry both your old and new passports when you travel to the UK - this will prove to our immigration officers that you have the right to be in the UK.

*FC* wrote:

dima wrote: you should be fine with both the passports. On the other hand, you can go for TOC if time permits. In this situation I would have gone for TOC....

Thanks Dima. I wonder why they say that one MUST go for TOC incase the officer stamps in the new passport. Does it mean that I will be fine as long as I am in the country and I need to get it changed if I do a trip somewhere and comeback ?!

FC

sushdmehta wrote:

*FC* wrote:

dima wrote: you should be fine with both the passports. On the other hand, you can go for TOC if time permits. In this situation I would have gone for TOC....

Thanks Dima. I wonder why they say that one MUST go for TOC incase the officer stamps in the new passport. Does it mean that I will be fine as long as I am in the country and I need to get it changed if I do a trip somewhere and comeback ?!

FC

One with Indefinite leave *must* apply using NTL form, and one with limited leave *must* aply using TOC form. The use of the word *must* here is in reference to which form(s) need to be used depending on one's status in the UK, if one *wishes* to transfer the visa to a new passport.

Hope this clarifies.



regards