Taped Naturalisation Certificate
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:57 am
Hi friends.
So after some time I had finally gotten to applying for my first British passport. I filled in the passport application, paid and got a friend to witness it.
But when I was taking my naturalisation certificate out of the long envelope I kept it in, disaster. It caught on the glue and tore in the middle. It didn’t tear all the way through so I fixed it with some clear tape. It is quite common to do this to official documents where I come from. My birth certificate is all taped up.
But after doing it I realised a note at the bottom of the certificate read that any tampering will render it invalid..
Shall I still send it in because I already paid for the passport application? I have ordered a copy online but judging from some posts it takes a couple of weeks/months for that to be processed.
Many thanks!
So after some time I had finally gotten to applying for my first British passport. I filled in the passport application, paid and got a friend to witness it.
But when I was taking my naturalisation certificate out of the long envelope I kept it in, disaster. It caught on the glue and tore in the middle. It didn’t tear all the way through so I fixed it with some clear tape. It is quite common to do this to official documents where I come from. My birth certificate is all taped up.
But after doing it I realised a note at the bottom of the certificate read that any tampering will render it invalid..
Shall I still send it in because I already paid for the passport application? I have ordered a copy online but judging from some posts it takes a couple of weeks/months for that to be processed.
Many thanks!