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So what happens to the data they collect from the Passport Interview?

1) Is it deleted or do you make a request to have it deleted?

2) Also as to Biometric Data for naturalisations is that deleted as well or must you write in to get that deleted.

3) Can you book a one week fast track for first time Adult passports or not?

We want to make travel arrangements but with the current naturalisation application being processed and then waiting for the ceremony not sure how long it will take. The other half wants to go back to the US for 4/5 months this time round.

1. It is used to verify your identity. Most of the questions are things only you will know and particular to you and what you have put in HO application forms. See Passport Interview Questions (Click)

2. See Want your biometric record deleted after becoming British (click). In addition to this, you have to return your BRP card (if you have one) within 5 days of your ceremony.

3. No you cannot use 1 week fast track for first adult passport.

Suggest you postpone your long travel till passport is received. The applicant has to attend the ceremony within 90 days of receiving approval.

Now once we get approval and attend the ceremony how long after is the Certificate issued?

Now she has a US passport which she can travel on but will need some sort of evidence when she returns.

1) The ILR will be redundant as she has citizenship.
2) Without a citizenship certificate will she be able to enter the UK?
3) If she enters the UK on her US passport will she be breaking VISA requirements?

kankerot wrote:Now once we get approval and attend the ceremony how long after is the Certificate issued?

Now she has a US passport which she can travel on but will need some sort of evidence when she returns.

1) The ILR will be redundant as she has citizenship.
2) Without a citizenship certificate will she be able to enter the UK?
3) If she enters the UK on her US passport will she be breaking VISA requirements?

See this relevant thread. I'll leave you to make you own conclusions.

http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 06650.html

kankerot wrote:Now once we get approval and attend the ceremony how long after is the Certificate issued?

Now she has a US passport which she can travel on but will need some sort of evidence when she returns.

1) The ILR will be redundant as she has citizenship.
2) Without a citizenship certificate will she be able to enter the UK?
3) If she enters the UK on her US passport will she be breaking VISA requirements?

1) Correct
2) Contentious. Its not an official travel document, and BRP is invalidated and will have to be returned or risk £1000 fine. People may have gotten away with it in the past, but rules have tightened since. Suggest she applies for UK passport immediately on the day of ceremony once naturalisation certificate is received. Will take 2-3 weeks.
3) She has no VISA by that stage, as British Citizenship overrides ILR. Factors to consider - return leg to UK could prove problematic on boarding the airline, entry at UK airport you could face grilling/questioning/stress etc by passport officers. The HO rules are clear, the consequences as described may/may not happen. All depends on probability and are you willing to take a risk.

Will tread this very carefully.

tripping wrote:

kankerot wrote:Now once we get approval and attend the ceremony how long after is the Certificate issued?

Now she has a US passport which she can travel on but will need some sort of evidence when she returns.

1) The ILR will be redundant as she has citizenship.
2) Without a citizenship certificate will she be able to enter the UK?
3) If she enters the UK on her US passport will she be breaking VISA requirements?

1) Correct
2) Contentious. Its not an official travel document, and BRP is invalidated and will have to be returned or risk £1000 fine. People may have gotten away with it in the past, but rules have tightened since. Suggest she applies for UK passport immediately on the day of ceremony once naturalisation certificate is received. Will take 2-3 weeks.
3) She has no VISA by that stage, as British Citizenship overrides ILR. Factors to consider - return leg to UK could prove problematic on boarding the airline, entry at UK airport you could face grilling/questioning/stress etc by passport officers. The HO rules are clear, the consequences as described may/may not happen. All depends on probability and are you willing to take a risk.

Will tread this very carefully.

Concur with all above, but do build in additional time in the passport application process to attend the obligatory interview before the passport can be issued.

kankerot wrote:Now once we get approval and attend the ceremony how long after is the Certificate issued?

She gets the certificate at the ceremony.

So no one knows what happens to the data they collect from the passport interview?

Also can you attend a citizenship ceremony at any council or only the one they prescribe as I want to sort out the Passport application asap after the ceremony.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... ssport.pdf

Page 24 of the Guidance

" We will record the interview for quality and
review purposes and to help us make a fair
decision. We may use the recording for training
purposes and we will destroy it after we have
issued your passport"

kankerot wrote:Also can you attend a citizenship ceremony at any council or only the one they prescribe as I want to sort out the Passport application asap after the ceremony.

Unless you stipulate in the application form which council you want your ceremony at, it will automatically default to the council in which you live.

Changing councils for ceremony AFTER you have been approved is a tedious process as your certificate has to be returned to HO and then redirected somewhere else and this can take a few weeks.

It doesn't matter where you have your ceremony, the passport application is a separate process and not a council service (unless you use the joint pilot project).

12years wrote:https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... ssport.pdf

Page 24 of the Guidance

" We will record the interview for quality and
review purposes and to help us make a fair
decision. We may use the recording for training
purposes and we will destroy it after we have
issued your passport"

That refers to the recording of the interview but not the answers they input. Or do they just sit there looking at a computer screen checking off your answers?

CR001 wrote:

kankerot wrote:Also can you attend a citizenship ceremony at any council or only the one they prescribe as I want to sort out the Passport application asap after the ceremony.

Unless you stipulate in the application form which council you want your ceremony at, it will automatically default to the council in which you live.

Changing councils for ceremony AFTER you have been approved is a tedious process as your certificate has to be returned to HO and then redirected somewhere else and this can take a few weeks.

It doesn't matter where you have your ceremony, the passport application is a separate process and not a council service (unless you use the joint pilot project).

Yeah looks like just waiting then for the Citizenship approval and then booking with the council. Really annoyed I didnt know about the pilot scheme - would have travelled to the nearest NCS to sort it out.

I believe the OP will at least leave a Thank You message in the end in the interest of respect and courtesy.

leavetoremain wrote:I believe the OP will at least leave a Thank You message in the end in the interest of respect and courtesy.

Helping someone is a reflection of who you are. This forum has been an amazing place. Imagine if the OP has requested a solicitor then he/she would have known the value of the feedback given in this thread. However, This is not odd(a lot of people don't even say thanks in life and in this forum), the moderators and gurus are doing tremendous amount of research and hard work with each response. Remember, their feedback/time is priceless and what are the readers paying? Nothing.

Having said, that you should help because you want to, but you should not expect anything in return. You can't change the way people react, but you can control the way you react in return.