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I am unsure whether a retired person can act as a professional referee for me.

I am wanting to ask a retired social worker who is a family friend to act as one of mine. Will this do?

Thanks

Plum70 wrote:I am unsure whether a retired person can act as a professional referee for me.

I am wanting to ask a retired social worker who is a family friend to act as one of mine. Will this do?

If you check the thread http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=122565, there are plenty of similar questions there but no definitive answers, only speculation.

barnaby wrote: If you check the thread http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=122565, there are plenty of similar questions there but no definitive answers, only speculation.

Thanks. Unfortunately the above thread doesn't discuss this issue.

I could enquire direct from the UKBA (will attempt to this week) but would also like experiential advice.

Retired teacher as a professional reference?.

Thanks Jambo.

One would expect such an important detail to be on the UKBA website...

I will ring them and ask if there is a blanket refusal of all retired professional referees.

Will post back.

Interesting that IPS do accept retired professionals for passport application (it is stated in the paasport guide).