AN Form by post

[Margueritta]

Due to the fact that I now can't complete the *online version, I have been madly filling out the postal AN Form. Documents needed: "Your spouse’s or civil partner’s current passport or naturalisation/registration
certificate showing that he/she is a British citizen. If you are making your application by post you can send a complete and full copy of your spouse’s or civil partner’s current passport. Every page of the passport must be copied including any blank pages...

Does this mean I can't submit my husband's naturalisation cert. by post and that it must be his passport?

*I had a child out of wedlock with another person years before I married my current spouse, and the online form requires a marriage date.

[Margueritta]

I should add that I'm asking because my husband works overseas so he needs his passport. He gets home when our local doc check service shuts forever.

[trilobite1981]

If they required only the copies of your husband's passport can't you ask your husband to courier a set of copies? Not sure whether the copies need to be certified by a registrar though!

I dont think having a child in a previous relationship is relevant. You can tell them when you got married to the existing husband.

Please correct me if I am wrong. At least your post is bumping up by my reply.

[Margueritta]

Thanks for your reply, Trilobite. The problem is, I don't really know. The person who knows these things at the doc checking service is away for a week.

My adult child is not relevant at all but it seems to be a question on the online version of the form (It's not on the paper version). If I reply truthfully, yes, I do have a child by another person, the next section requires a marriage date. If I don't put in a marriage date (because there isn't one), it won't let me complete the form. It's very baffling and I can't find anyone else having the same problem. Am I the only person in the universe using the online AN form, who once had a child out of wedlock? Apparently so!