Children's British Passport Application and ILR error

[sywahu]

I am going to apply for my children's british passports since they were naturalised recently. We have got ILR but are not nationals.....yet

Of course I have got all the requisites but I am unsure about two things. Wondering whether the board members can shed some light on it. I have spoken to the PO and they are advising to just "send the application in for now"....not very helpful.

1 - The children's ILR visa is on mother's expired passport. She hasn't got a current passport at the moment.

2 - My son's date of birth is incorrect on his ILR stamp on the passport.

I told these two things to the Passport Office and they were not 100% sure about point 2. My understanding is that if they are now naturalised, it didn't matter whether ILR showed incorrect date of birth etc.

I enquired about point 1 because I wasn't sure whether they required the passport with visa, and a current valid passport.

Will their passport application have any problems because of this?

[ppron747]

I doubt very much if you're going to get a conclusive answer here, if the Passport Office doesn't know the answer...

My own inclination would be to complete the application forms and send them in, with the registration certificates (I assume this is what you mean, rather than naturalisation, which applies only to adults) and their mother's expired passport - and their birth certificates. I can't see any reason for your wife to apply for a new passport, in the context of the children's passport applications, at least.

I'm surprised that IND didn't pick up the mistake over your son's birthdate when you submitted the registration applications, but in any case, I'd suggest a short covering note drawing attention to it, so that UKPS don't jump to any conclusions.

I don't think you've got anything to lose by just submitting the passport applications. Either the passports will be issued without further ado (whcih I think is quite likely), or you'll be asked to get the birthdate discrepancy sorted out with IND. But because the fees are for issuing the passports, you'll get a full refund if they decline to issue for the time being.

My own view is that it is better to apply now, rather than getting the birthdate confusion sorted out in advance. It is going to take quite a while to get IND to correct their records, if it becomes necessary...

[John]

sywahu, you say the children were naturalised, but presumably you mean registered? Their certificates ... headed up ..... Certificate of Registration?

You are saying about problems with stamps on passports but are there any errors on their Certificates of Registration?

[sywahu]

sorry yes I meant registration as british nationals.

I did attach a letter with their natioanlity application explaining the error in his ILR. I think the board also advised to simply apply for registration under section A since its based on parents ILR, not the child's. That went ok.

I was thinking the same thing but it would seem strange to get involved with IND on his home country's ILR date of birth when they have already become british nationals technically. now we only need their british passports since we intend to fly soon.

I guess I will just have to send it and see how it goes.

thanks

[sywahu]

nope no errors on the registration certificate. i made sure this didn't happen by attaching a letter in the application and explaining the silly mistake.

The date went into the ILR because my embassy corrected the date of birth, then stamped the correction with "yes this is an authentic correction". Thats ok but they STAMPED IT ON THE DATE OF BIRTH

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry!

[ppron747]

I'm sure it'll be OK, sywahu - if your explanation satisfied IND, there's no reason to think that it won't do the trick with UKPS. Let us know how it goes...

[basis]

I agree with Paul. One of my friends had almost simiar issues and it didn't matter...

Good luck !!!

[sywahu]

i did check with IND at the time and they said that it would be another £500 for the correction! They argued that it wasn't their mistake that the embassy made the date look like something else.

Thank God I was able to apply under section A and not worry about this whole situation.

Thanks guys I will let the board know whether they object or not.