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lost passport with tier 2 visa while in uk, what to do?

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lost passport with tier 2 visa while in uk, what to do?

Post by fcspeaker » Sun Apr 07, 2013 1:26 am

I have the following issue and would welcome any advise! I am a Russian citizen, I am currently a resident of UK – I live and work here under Tier 2 Long Term Staff Migrant visa. I have recently lost my passport (with my visa, which is a sticker, not a plastic card) while being in the UK. I have not yet cancelled my passport and visa because I have a little hope that I can get it back. However, the probability is low.

Thus I need to get a new passport and a new visa. I consider the following possibilities:

1) Issue a new passport in UK (with Russian embassy) and then apply for a new visa from the UK. However, issuing a new passport would take not less then 3-4 months. Meanwhile, I need to travel at least once to Russia for family and job reasons. may be there is some possibility to have some kind of a temporary visa ( i have all the documents including copy of my lost passport with visa)
2) Go to Russia, issue a new passport (within 1-2 weeks) and then apply for a transfer of a visa into my new passport in Russia (documents that I have are: photocopy of previous passport and a Certificate of Registration in UK (with my photo, address, lost passport data and visa data)). The question is: how much time it would take to obtain visa while in Russia and what set of documents I will need. The most important question here is how much time it would take to get a replacement of visa, as this is very critical.
3) Go to Russia, issue a new passport, then go to the UK and get a replacement of my visa there. I believe that this is actually impossible (to entry UK without a visa in my passport, having only photocopy of previous visa, a new passport and a Certificate of Registration), but could you please confirm, may be it is possible (as it would be clearly a preferable option for me)

or if anyone can think of any other options, I would be very happy to see any suggestions..

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Post by vinny » Sun Apr 07, 2013 2:03 am

In 2 and 3, how would you go to Russia without a new passport?
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Post by fcspeaker » Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:02 am

going to russia without a new passport is the easiest - i just get a paper from Russian embassy and can return to Russia using this paper. The key problem is to admit back to UK with old passport with visa stolen

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Post by vinny » Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:53 am

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Post by fcspeaker » Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:14 am

i also read at some other forum that I can try to ask UKBA to issue some document named Immigration Status Document (A4 format sheet of paper) and temporarily transfer my visa there so I can go to Russia, get a new passport and return to UK using visa in ISD...
did anyone hear about this possibility?

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