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Permanent residency in another country on the passport
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:09 pm
by peemandy
dear friends
plz give me advice. we (me and my wife) wish to apply british cityzen through nutralisation now. we recently got permanent resident visa for canada.but my intention is to live in uk.will i face any problem in getting cityzenship uk.
Re: Permanent residency in another country on the passport
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:59 pm
by Newbies
peemandy wrote:dear friends
plz give me advice. we (me and my wife) wish to apply british cityzen through nutralisation now. we recently got permanent resident visa for canada.but my intention is to live in uk.will i face any problem in getting cityzenship uk.
It is only the UKBA that can decide wheather to approve or refuse the application. I believe when you submit the application via NCS or postal they will eventually discover the visa on your passport. Perhaps you could write a good cover note explaining your situation but do not it hide it. Goodluck
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:09 pm
by mrlookforward
Or you can make a postal application, but not send you original passport. Just send certified copies of passport.
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:43 pm
by Backer
I think the fact you have PR in another country should not prevent you to naturalization on grounds of future intentions so long you declare your future lies in the UK. However, you may be asked further questions or even interviewed on this. I would reccomend sending a covering letter explaining the PR as a past intention.
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:41 pm
by Sky_High
If you send through NCS, how would they know about it?
Council will just copy your ILR and other UK visas and first page of your passport. They will stamp them and forward to HO.
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:48 pm
by soulfullness
Hi
I am in the same situation. But I feel it will not be a problem , I suppose . Mainly you never know before you get your ILR wether it will be approved or not ? So you are taking a risk if not decided to take that to Canada. On top of it , those days here in UK they keep changing the immigration rules time to time and so you are in ambiguity in the getting of ILR. Probably I will explain those things in my application and welcome any other ideas.
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:51 pm
by Backer
I assumed NCS actually photocopies all the passport pages - not true?
Anyway, I still think that as long you fulfil residential requirments then PR in another country does not matter so long to declate that your future lies in the UK. The PR in another country is a result of past intentions and not current or future ones.
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:46 pm
by soulfullness
Hi All
Anyone in similar situation and gone through this succesfully? And what you wrote in AN form for the going out of UK for PR in another country? Please reply urgent.
Thanks in advance