Urgent - please respond

[Pari_in_kwest]

Hi All,

My passport has been away for over 5 months now and I just received a call from home that my Mum is extremely unwell and they are taking her to hospital. I know getting passport back from the home office will be a long wait and I don't have that much time. Can please anyone tell me, the ways in which I could travel back to India? I might be able to get some travel documents from the Indian High Commission (may be I am not sure) but how would I get my passport back?

Please could anyone suggest? I will really appreciate your swift response.

Thanks

[Gagan1986]

Sorry to hear. I believe the only way out is to contact home office and tell them your situation. If they agree and tell ypu where ypur application stands, then well and good. If not then you have to go down the route of withdrawing your application.

Not sure if other members have different views about it. Home Office may ask for some proof which you would need to get from the hospital in India.

Hope all goes well for you and good luck.

[crusador0408]

Sorry to hear that.

Here is an excerpt from guidance notes for Set(o) forms page 5:

17 CONTACTING US AFTER YOU HAVE APPLIED
If you need to contact us after you have applied, please
do so as follows.
To send us more information about your application,
write to the following address (not the one to which you
posted your application):
UK Border Agency
Liverpool Settlement Casework
PO Box 306
Liverpool
L2 0QN
and give the following details in your letter:
- the applicant’s full name, date of birth and nationality
- any Recorded or Special Delivery number
- the date on which the application was posted, made
in person or delivered by courier
- the Home Office reference number if you have one.
If you need your passport because you have to travel
urgently and unexpectedly, call 0870 606 7766 and
give the details listed immediately above.
Your application will be treated as withdrawn if your
passport is returned for travel abroad before we are
able to decide the application.