Data sharing for Absences from UK?
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:15 pm
Hi all, I am a French Citizen applying for U.K. citizenship having already received and held my EU Settled Status for over a year.
At the moment, the problem I am facing is regarding the "absences from UK" section that must be filled for the naturalization process. The main problem is that I have traveled a lot over the past 5 years, both for business and leisure, and really only have a rough recollection of the details of these trips!! This is especially the case for trips which happened before mid 2018 as I no longer have access to the work email with which many of those trips were booked.
Although I am trying my best by checking bank statements/old pictures - I am worried as I have heard that the UK border agency does data-sharing of your entries/exits with the Home Office. I fear that I will have missed a few of the trips I have made and then be accused of lying when the Home Office lines up what I report to them against the data they receive from the UK Border Agency!!!
Does anybody have any experience with a similar situation? Is there a way to ask the Border Agency for a printout of the same data which I could use in my application? I really do not want to have my application rejected, or worse, be banned/barred from applying again because of potential omissions
At the moment, the problem I am facing is regarding the "absences from UK" section that must be filled for the naturalization process. The main problem is that I have traveled a lot over the past 5 years, both for business and leisure, and really only have a rough recollection of the details of these trips!! This is especially the case for trips which happened before mid 2018 as I no longer have access to the work email with which many of those trips were booked.
Although I am trying my best by checking bank statements/old pictures - I am worried as I have heard that the UK border agency does data-sharing of your entries/exits with the Home Office. I fear that I will have missed a few of the trips I have made and then be accused of lying when the Home Office lines up what I report to them against the data they receive from the UK Border Agency!!!
Does anybody have any experience with a similar situation? Is there a way to ask the Border Agency for a printout of the same data which I could use in my application? I really do not want to have my application rejected, or worse, be banned/barred from applying again because of potential omissions