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After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updated?

Post by catch22_av » Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:15 pm

Hello All,

Apologies if this question has been already asked and there are responses available out there. I recently became a British citizen (yay!) and wanted to understand whether this change in Nationality needs to be updated with certain government agencies like HMRC, NHS, Electoral Office, Employer etc? Is there a list of orgs or people that need to be told that one has become a British Citizen? In addition to it, is there anything I should be applying for for e.g. EHIC. Are there any additional benefits (not necessary economically related) which one can avail of after becoming a Citizen which werent available when one was on ILR?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Zaidii » Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:22 pm

May be write a letter to Queen and let her know

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by catch22_av » Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:24 pm

Zaidii wrote:May be write a letter to Queen and let her know
Thanks Zaidii for such a value added response. Cant thank you enough. Could you care to entertain with a few more of those informative one liners? Thanks. :)

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by noajthan » Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:25 pm

catch22_av wrote:Hello All,

Apologies if this question has been already asked and there are responses available out there. I recently became a British citizen (yay!) and wanted to understand whether this change in Nationality needs to be updated with certain government agencies like HMRC, NHS, Electoral Office, Employer etc? Is there a list of orgs or people that need to be told that one has become a British Citizen? In addition to it, is there anything I should be applying for for e.g. EHIC. Are there any additional benefits (not necessary economically related) which one can avail of after becoming a Citizen which werent available when one was on ILR?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Congratulations.

HMRC may be interested.
You can update/correct your voter registration(/electoral roll entry) next time council writes to you.
A British EHIC may be handy to have.

Not sure the Queen wants to know but you may ofcourse sing the national anthem if and when you wish.
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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Zaidii » Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:27 pm

Glad that you didn't get offended :)

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by catch22_av » Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:36 pm

Thanks noajthan for your wishes and info. I will contact HMRC and apply for EHIC. I tried to sing the anthem during my ceremony but was very offtune. It will get some getting used to. :)

Cheers Zaidii. Life's too short to get offended. :)

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by noajthan » Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:38 pm

catch22_av wrote:Thanks noajthan for your wishes and info. I will contact HMRC and apply for EHIC. I tried to sing the anthem during my ceremony but was very offtune. It will get some getting used to. :)

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Several scans and copies of your naturalisation certificate may be useful to keep on file too.
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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Noetic » Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:51 pm

Careful, she'll set the Corgis on you...

I can't find an option for notifying HMRC of a change of nationality on their online form, does anyone know how to notify them?

Another thing is if your original country allows dual nationality you may have to notify them, otherwise you'll definitely have to notify them.

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by WR1 » Mon Oct 03, 2016 8:45 pm

catch22_av wrote:Are there any additional benefits (not necessary economically related) which one can avail of after becoming a Citizen which werent available when one was on ILR?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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There's not that many organisations to inform. Maybe electoral register as they record your nationality.

Regards to benefits, to state the most obvious one which you will already be aware of is your entitlement to a British Passport. Apart from that visa free travel throughout Europe until Brexit officialy happens (around March 2019), harder to lose nationality than ILR, for example if outside the UK for more than 2 years, you loose ILR status, but citizenship remains.
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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Casa » Mon Oct 03, 2016 8:50 pm

It may be worth updating your bank.
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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by catch22_av » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:40 am

Thanks every one for all your suggestions. I already applied for passport as part of JCAP service, once that arrives I will have to initiate the process of giving up my other nationality as that country doesnt allow dual citizenship.

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Noetic » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:51 am

Casa wrote:It may be worth updating your bank.
I tried that but they weren't interested. Even though I'm sure nationality is one of the details they hold on you.

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Casa » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:54 am

Noetic wrote:
Casa wrote:It may be worth updating your bank.
I tried that but they weren't interested. Even though I'm sure nationality is one of the details they hold on you.
It is. My husband's details were still showing him as a foreign national on his bank records after 10 years of holding BC. He changed it online.
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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Noetic » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:56 am

Think I'll take my passport into the branch this week to get it changed, there was no option online and when I contacted them they said as long as I'm still resident here they don't care, but it doesn't seem right to me.

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Casa » Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:07 am

If you are applying for an additional bank account, a loan or a credit card you are asked to confirm that the details held on file are correct. At least this is the case with NatWest.
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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by wpilr_nov12 » Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:05 pm

May be your insurance providers? Mine asked me to phone with update when I become BC, so the 'fact at the current time' is recorded.
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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by johnkk » Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:01 pm

the place you work probably wants to be informed of such changes.

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Star30 » Tue Oct 04, 2016 5:26 pm

Zaidii wrote:May be write a letter to Queen and let her know
Hhhhhhh nice Answer jejeje

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Re: After becoming a British Citizen - Who needs to be updat

Post by Noetic » Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:42 pm

johnkk wrote:the place you work probably wants to be informed of such changes.
Good point yes that's the first thing I did when I got my certificate back from the passport application.

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