CR001 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:11 pm
What were the reasons for refusal? It is not common or often that FBR is refused.
So…admittedly my case is a bit off-piste.
I regret to inform you that you are not eligible for FBR and your application is being refused. This is due to the fact that [paternal grandfather] was not named on the civil birth certificate submitted for your Father.
My father was born out of wedlock (that sounds so old fashioned but I think it’s the correct term?!) and he was adopted immediately after birth.
His father (my paternal grandfather), who was born in Ireland, is therefore not named on my father’s birth certificate.
I submitted a detailed explanation of this with my application, along with providing extensive documentation (original adoption records, correspondence with my late grandmother, genealogy records, an official copy of my grandfather’s birth certificate sourced from the Irish registry, and more), but apparently they have ignored all this.
If the documentation provided to them is insufficient then fair enough, but it’s really very poor that they are so unhelpful in their correspondence. They could explain why the documentation is insufficient, they could give guidance on what documentation they could accept, etc.
For them to just state the bleedin’ obvious, which I pointed out to them myself in my application, really is of no use.
Anyway, I have appealed, even if just in the hope that I get a bit more guidance on what documentation might be accepted. But I have no idea how long I should wait before I hear something.