Baby's first UK passport from India

[susangill]

Hi,

I do have a reference number but it doesn't start with PEX.

[contorted_svy]

Can you ask the centre where you applied, or write/call HMPO with that reference number?

[susangill]

Hi,

I have had no luck as the 03002220000 agents got no clue and i got no number for the VFS. I was hoping someone on the forum must have contacted and have a number where i can chase as well.

[secret.simon]

Be aware that a first British passport for British citizens by descent children born on the Subcontinent have been reported to take six months to a year.

[susangill]

Hi Secret.simon

Thanks for letting me know. I am completely aware of it.

Just wanna know if anyone knows how to track the application??

[susangill]

Hi All,

Please can someone help.

Thank you

[susangill]

Hi All,

Please can someone help me

[Ticktack]

Hi All,

Please can someone help me

People can't help you with what they have no clue about. Why not try and contact the British Embassy in India.
It should be part of the consular help, but you need to ask very nicely.

[susangill]

Hi All,

Just to provide an update. We have recieved the baby's passport today. We applied on 25th Aug from india. After we applied with the documents the passport office asked for progressive pregnancy photographs. They also contacted the hospital for verification and interviewed my wife as well over teams. The questions were very similar to what's been mentioned on another thread on the forum. Thank you all.
I just have got one more query. Does anyone know if we have to now apply for the Indian visa for the baby as he is still in india and now got a passport. Someone mentioned on another thread they were fined for not obtaining the visa?

[CR001]

I just have got one more query. Does anyone know if we have to now apply for the Indian visa for the baby as he is still in india and now got a passport. Someone mentioned on another thread they were fined for not obtaining the visa?

Please ask these questions in the Other Countries sub forum, link below. The questions are not relevant to the British citizenship sub forum.

other-countries/

[susangill]

I just have got one more query. Does anyone know if we have to now apply for the Indian visa for the baby as he is still in india and now got a passport. Someone mentioned on another thread they were fined for not obtaining the visa?

Please ask these questions in the Other Countries sub forum, link below. The questions are not relevant to the British citizenship sub forum.

other-countries/

Well i disagree with your opinion.

Because the question is relevant as anyone who will apply for British passport for their kids in india will have to go through the same issue as i am going through. And secondly it's a continuation on my own thread and i am not hijacking someone else's thread. The whole purpose of this forum is to help everyone and not always it's about filling everything correctly Mr. Moderator.

[CR001]

I just have got one more query. Does anyone know if we have to now apply for the Indian visa for the baby as he is still in india and now got a passport. Someone mentioned on another thread they were fined for not obtaining the visa?

Please ask these questions in the Other Countries sub forum, link below. The questions are not relevant to the British citizenship sub forum.

other-countries/

Well i disagree with your opinion.

Because the question is relevant as anyone who will apply for British passport for their kids in india will have to go through the same issue as i am going through. And secondly it's a continuation on my own thread and i am not hijacking someone else's thread. The whole purpose of this forum is to help everyone and not always it's about filling everything correctly Mr. Moderator.

Please ask your Indian authority processes questions in the Other Countries forum, where such questions belong and the more knowledgeable contributors post. It is inappropriate for all other countries processes and exit visa questions to be asked in the British Citizenship sub forum which is specifically for questions relating to applying for British Citizenship and British Passports!

If you do not wish to follow simple Moderator requests and follow the forum rules, please feel free to find another forum to post questions (where they all have the same rules we do).

[secret.simon]

Well i disagree with your opinion.

Because the question is relevant as anyone who will apply for British passport for their kids in india will have to go through the same issue as i am going through. And secondly it's a continuation on my own thread and i am not hijacking someone else's thread. The whole purpose of this forum is to help everyone and not always it's about filling everything correctly Mr. Moderator.

People on their immigration journey through the UK Immigration system inevitably go through multiple stages, such as from a spousal visa or a Skilled Worker visa to ILR to naturalisation to, in the case of Indians, surrender of their Indian passport.

Not all people go through the same stages and the stages all have different requirements. For instance, somebody on a spousal visa leading up to ILR will not have the same requirements to meet as one on a Skilled Worker visa or indeed, even the spouse of a Skilled Worker visa.

To make it easier for people at a specific stage to share their experience relevant to that stage, the forums are split across the various stages, so that as people move across various stages, they post new threads in the forum relevant to the query at that stage. So an Indian on a Skilled Worker visa who applied for ILR on that basis and then naturalised, may have three or more threads at each of those stages and a further one in the Other Countries forum about surrender of the Indian passport.

What to you is a single journey is not one from the viewpoint of immigration law, nationality law or indeed Indian law. And to make it easier to deal with each set of laws, we request that you split the thread as you have been advised.

Filing everything correctly is a necessity in order to help everybody. A jumbled mess of different immigration journeys haphazardly bundled together benefits nobody and the forums will be useless without such organisation.

You may entirely disagree with a moderator, but it always helps to follow advice on these forums, whether from moderators or indeed from other sterling members who help out over here, even if only to earn goodwill.

In this case, CR001 has correctly advised that the questions about surrender of the Indian passport belong correctly in another forum because they have nothing to do with British nationality law and everything to do with the laws of India, another country for the past 75 years. I would strongly advise you to follow their advice.

Re the "Mr. Moderator" bit, I would gently point out that one ought to be careful when gendering a person on an anonymous forum. One should not assume the gender of any person, unless explicitly stated (so if somebody is referring to their daughter, it is safe to assume the female gender, but a child can be of any gender, etc).

I would join with CR001 to file your query about surrender of Indian passport, one under Indian law with its own requirements, in the Other Countries forum. You can of course link to this thread in that new post for clarity(see example) and link to that thread in this thread in case you want to provide a sense of continuity, just as you would if you had to file a paper file across multiple paper folders. It is not an insurmountable hurdle.

[ddb19]

Hi - we're applying for my daughter's British passport from India and are in the process of getting the docs ready. I read in the guidance notes for counter signatory that the person should also be living in the UK (link & section below).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ible#count

"The countersignatory must:
have known you personally for at least 2 years (for example, a friend, neighbour or colleague, and not someone who is related to you or only knows you professionally)
be a professional person (please see occupations for countersignatories
live in the UK, and
hold a British or Irish passport which has not run out."

We know someone with a British passport living in India who can sign as counter signatory but I dont understand this rule of living in the UK, considering we are going to apply for it from India.

Is this true or am I confusing this somehow?

Thank you

[alterhase58]

Hi - we're applying for my daughter's British passport from India and are in the process of getting the docs ready. I read in the guidance notes for counter signatory that the person should also be living in the UK (link & section below).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ible#count

"The countersignatory must:
have known you personally for at least 2 years (for example, a friend, neighbour or colleague, and not someone who is related to you or only knows you professionally)
be a professional person (please see occupations for countersignatories
live in the UK, and
hold a British or Irish passport which has not run out."

We know someone with a British passport living in India who can sign as counter signatory but I dont understand this rule of living in the UK, considering we are going to apply for it from India.

Is this true or am I confusing this somehow?

Thank you

Check section "3.2 Who can be a referee for a customer applying from overseas" of this document:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -a-referee