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traffice offence after letter of approval
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:37 pm
by alwaysintrouble
guys !!
If one recieve the approval letter and waiting for a ceremony(say in two months time).
What would happen if you caught speeding next day, 6 points and your license taken away ?
would the council withdraw the approval letter ??
Re: traffice offence after letter of approval
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:45 pm
by bobobo
no you should be fine
alwaysintrouble wrote:guys !!
If one recieve the approval letter and waiting for a ceremony(say in two months time).
What would happen if you caught speeding next day, 6 points and your license taken away ?
would the council withdraw the approval letter ??
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:41 pm
by aprilclub
I went through the same scenario in my mind when I applied last year, and as far as I could tell, there is no rule to revoke it after approval for traffic violation ( severe criminal offence could be another matter).
However, for all practical purposes my solution was the following
1. Get the ceremony done privately ASAP
2. Get the British passposrt
3. Surrender you original passport and citizenship
This should not take more than 25 days.
Once you hold only UK citizenship, UK govt cant take it away (i.e revoke british citizenship) no matter what. ( Note that for Indians, OCI is considered to be Indian citizenship and if you have it, UK can revoke it. Not sure how that will work in practise though, because as far as I know, the OCI is tied to the UK passport. So if UK passport is gone, the OCI is gone with it. Not sure if this point was clearly thought through)
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:40 pm
by alwaysintrouble
Great Reply !! Awesome.
You spoke my mind
I think I will try to go for the earliest available chance to get a surrender certificate and then start driving again. I have a clean license(though I don't drive) the counterpart is with the NCS-made-nationality-application as well.
Currently I am awaiting for my approval evenmore so toward the fee being debited from my account.
You are right getting an OCI is no safe bet, its better to get 5 years visa to India every fifth year. I read on UKBA that home office consider OCI akin to citizenship.