transfer of visa from an expired passport to a new passport

[khato]

I am a local councillor and have a constituent who is an Indian citizen with an ILR visa. However the ILR visa is in the expired passport. Is he able to tranfer the visa to his new passport? if so how much and where. He would like to do it in person as he is not willing to trust the post or the admin at the Home Office. We are in the Lancashire area.

Thank you in ancipation of your assistance.

[vinny]

See also Transfer your visa to a new passport and Applying in person

[Christophe]

Note that, as Vinny's first link points out, your constituent may choose to have his ILR visa transferred to his new passport, but it is not compulsory to do so. Obviously, however, there are advantages in having the visa transferred: if he doesn't he needs to carry both his old and his new passport as a matter of course whenever he wants to re-enter (or leave) the UK, and there is always the risk of delay at check-in coming back to the UK if the check-in clerk is unaware of the rules about long-term visas in old passports.

On the other hand, if he is, for example, planning to apply for naturalisation soon and not planning to travel outside the UK in the mean time (or not planning to travel much), he might well decide it's not worth the trouble and expense of transferring the visa.