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I was hoping for next week in Singapore.Casa wrote:Where and when are you attending your citizenship ceremony? There is no fast-track service for first passport application.
Is the purpose of this school's deadline to prove you can travel?Yoerio wrote:Hello
I have just recieved the letter to attend a ceremonial for my british citizenship certificate. I am 25 and half british and currently living in Singapore. I intend to do the ceremony asap. I have contacted a school in Holland and they let me do a study there on the condition that I have my british passport either before the 31st of august or 12th of september. Is it possible to get the passport on such short notice and can you give me a short walkthrough on how to?
Thank you for your time
Yoeri
Applying in the UK will be much faster than doing it from overseas.Yoerio wrote:Thank you for your reply. This is what I was afraid for. Does it make any difference if I pick up the passport and do the application for the passport in England?
I've a wild idea, but I'm not sure it would work.Yoerio wrote:I have contacted a school in Holland and they let me do a study there on the condition that I have my british passport either before the 31st of august or 12th of september.
I've no idea what evidence of legal entry you would receive if this works, nor indeed of how well Dutch Immigration follows EU law.Where a Union citizen, or a family member who is not a national of a Member State, does not have the necessary travel documents or, if required, the necessary visas, the Member State concerned shall, before turning them back, give such persons every reasonable opportunity to obtain the necessary documents or have them brought to them within a reasonable period of time or to corroborate or prove by other means that they are covered by the right of free movement and residence.
What is the nationality of your current passport? Given that you are allowed 90 days stay on arrival with it in the Netherlands, it seems that it is recognised by the Dutch government. I find it questionable why the school won't accept it as proof of identification. They should then accept the naturalisation certificate as provisional proof of citizenship while you acquire a British passport. Offer this as a solution to them.Yoerio wrote:But apparently they want an identification proof.
It is probably preferable to attend a school that is law-abiding and in a country with a high standard regarding rule of law.Yoerio wrote:Currently my passport is a singaporean one. Its not from the eu. So I doubt it will work, the school replied they refuse to accept me unless I have an actual european passport. Basically theyre very law-abiding unfortunately.