Anything you can do to convice the immigration officer will help, for example if you have family living in the UK, have a property or a job offer etc. You seem to have a valid reason (doing MBA) to stay out of UK. I think you will be ok provided you have not done any UK visits in the last two years ...

Write UNKNOWN and explain in additional information. This is quite common, nothing to worry about - just don't provide made up information.

its 21 days to book the ceremony and 3 months to attend it from the date on the letter. Passport is your own choice - no time limit to apply for passport.

My wife had a similar situation, she had a "medium of instruction" certificate which universities normally give out and from what I recall I learned during the process that "The degree is taught in English" certificate (as asked by Home Office) is not the same as "Medium of ...

You cannot apply from within the UK for a British passport for him. On the declaration form of the passport application, you must confirm you and the child are in the UK. Moreover, they will ask for the passport the child used to travel to the UK if you use the form designed for applications from w...

Cool, I believe border force is the responsible for that sort of things so they are the people to contact. I still can't get my head around that they could put such a ban on a name. Talk about generalisation... I hope your are not talking about the name Muhammed. I have a friend with first name as ...

My wife and many others on the forum have used this test center. I have not heard anyone having any issues with it.

http://englishexamcentres.co.uk/b1-esol ... vel-3.html

In theory they can do that although a number of friends of mine have applied in the last year or so and used the same referee who is also a friend, he never received any calls for verification.

Hi All, Thanks for looking into this post and responses. I am a british citizen from April 2014. My wife and daughter was with me all time except between (Feburary 2013- January 2014). Both my wife and daughter is currently on ILR status. Both returned from India on January 2014 and is now staying ...

intelinside wrote:You can also have a private ceremony that lasts for about 15min. There is an additional cost of £54 for that but you might be able to get the date you want.

Charges for private ceremony differ from council to council. I paid £80 and I have heard someone paid £150 in another council.

I think it is irrelevant whether a council does it more often or not because the only reason a council would do it more often would be if it had too many applicants continuously needing to attend which would mean that all those ceremonies would be booked long in advance anyway. I think Westminster c...

Also it might help to know that child benefits can be back dated upto 3 months so one option may to apply for child benefit later.

You can also book it for the weekend ....... not sure if all passport offices do it - crawley certainly does.

mbf82 wrote:I've decided to go for englishexamcentres.co.uk as it seems the quickest way to pass an exam and get the certificate.

This is exactly the one I suggested two days ago - feeling smug

You are only British once you attend the ceremony not from date of approval letter. However, as you must have had ILR when the baby was born, the baby is automatically British as you were 'settled'. Am I correct in understanding that the baby is not automatically British but they have to be registe...

If he has a British Passport then I don't see what the question is about.

Pick up a passport application form from post office which will tell you exactly what to submit based on your situation.

Again, I am not expert on this but I believe if your kids were born in UK they are British citizens from the moment you have received your ILR, meaning you have to apply for their passport only. This is not correct. They do not become British Citizens automatically, they have just become eligible t...

Hello Everyone, I would like to ask you all talented ppl following questions if u can answer: Just to cover the background so far... I currently have ILR after 5yrs on Tier 1 which is coming up to 12 months(5years Tier 1 + 1yr ILR) in March 2nd Week. I have wife and 2 kids(6yr&1yr), wife on ILR...

What nationality are you? Seems like the Asians and those from Middle East are under the radar Can you please explain how you reached that conclusion?? ..... looking at the spreadsheet there are quite a few Asians who have already got their approvals. It seems lots of October applicants havent hear...

I remember some time ago there was some news about a LIUK test centre allowing people to cheat and UKBA got suspecious because people were travelling long distances to take their test at that center. By reading through the post and what questions were asked to OP in his interview it seems like he c...

I remember some time ago there was some news about a LIUK test centre allowing people to cheat and UKBA got suspecious because people were travelling long distances to take their test at that center. By reading through the post and what questions were asked to OP in his interview it seems like he co...

By level one do you mean ESOL level 1 ??? Basically you need at least B1 CEFR which is equivalent to ESOL Entry level 3 or GESE Grade 5. It must also be taken by one of approved test centers mentioned in https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368123/Approved_secure...

See 3.10 and 3.11 in AN application form. I think you have to provide details of the incident. It would be better to mention it to be on the safe side. If this is the only incident then I don't think it should adversely affect you application.

Others might be able to advise you better.

On this forum, it seems that majority of the people use the NCS service. I don't intend to travel after the application, so if there is no real advantage (i.e. processing speed) of applying using NCS then I might save the money and apply personally. Out of curiosity, does anyone use a solicitor or ...