I agree with your friends... If your father was born in Penang he would have been a citizen of the UK & Colonies (CUKC) by birth, under section 4 of the British Nationality Act 1948. When British colonies became independent, the normal position is that people who had British nationality through ...

I don't think that'll work, Abisurd.
The switch to the student visa will reset the clock. They are not looking for "a total" of five years on HSMP/WP; they are looking for a single five year period, as the Rules are at the moment...
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To answer (3) first, your fiancée would need to return to Australia to get a fiancée visa, if you want to marry in UK. Otherwise, I don't think there's a lot in it, Mathew. The requirements for spouse/fiancée visas are much the same. There's a theory that, with a slightly weak application, being mar...

To answer your last question, Andy, I would think that the more evidence of contact your fiancée can show, the better... I doubt that the Immigration Officer at the airport would have made a special note that she didn't mention you... I don't know the answer to your question about what will be neces...

Thanks for that link, Rogerio.... Ten years, eh? Fortunately they're a bit freer with "Letters of Particulars", so it isn't great disaster... (I had a similar problem with a link the other day - I think the Board software doesn't like the brackets) Did your copies come out OK? Certificates...

Hi I recently got COA, can any one tell what we have to do at the register office as we already married in our religious way.We still need to marry infornt of the register or what we have to do. You will need to go through a civil marriage ceremony, which will then mean that you will be legally mar...

I think you will need to ask the British Embassy that question - http://www.britishembassy.pl

It should be possible to obtain a replacement - or a letter giving details of your father's naturalisation. You could browse around http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk to see if the procedure is explained there. Or, you could phone the Nationality Group Call Centre during the week, on 0845 010 5200.

All the best, Reannan - and make sure hubby is sitting down when he looks at the fee for a passport....
It's also worth mentioning that I gather the Embassy in Washington gets very busy in the run-up to Christmas, so the quicker he applies, the better.

I sincerely hope that this proves to be academic, because although I am aware that proviso (a) to section 4 of the British Nationality Act 1948 was amended by the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 - and that Orders in Council may also have been made under a couple of other Acts, bringing certain catego...

Mangwisto Even if you can get one, I don't think a Certificate of Approval is really what you need. Yes, it allows your fiancée to marry you in this country, but that is all. It doesn't allow her to remain in the UK as your wife. There is a "no-switching" rule that has been in force for a ...

Not sure whether this is relevant or not, but Jennifer23 , in this topic seems to have had a problem because she went on her honeymoon to Australia after the wedding, before having applied for further leave to remain as the spouse of her husband. When she submitted the FLR(M), the Home Office wouldn...

moganlal wrote:...Experts and gurus please help...

I'm neither, but I believe that you need to get yourself sorted out before your wife leaves. I doubt very much that that expiry date means anything at all once the WP holder departs or, for that matter, stops being a WP holder.

I think it might underline the need to be particularly scrupulous in keeping accurate records of your absences from UK, Lady, so that you can actually prove - should it be necessary - that your spouse's residence elsewhere isn't taking you over the normal permitted absences. If you're well within yo...

....It may be necessary to include them in your wife's naturalisation application instead. Does she intend to apply for naturalisation too? Or, as I suggested, submit all the applications together once they all qualify. Archies' earlier post said " ...she definitely needs a settled status in t...

I'm no expert, but I think you've got a false impression of the failure rate - don't forget that many people come to sites like this because they've got a problem. So by the very nature of things, you're not going to get people logging on specially to announce that they haven't got a problem... :) T...

And the bit that I can answer is that it used to be the case that you could use the WHM visa a bit at a time, and (eg) leave the country halfway through, then come back later on and use the other half of the two years. No more, I'm afraid: it is now a single two year period starting the the day it i...

Sounds right to me, Reannon... As I understand it, the license is the "clearance" to get married, and the certificate is the evidence that the deed was done, and the marriage was registered. So it'll be the certificate that's needed. A possible fly in the ointment is that if either of your...

Sorry to say (for the sake of your pocket!) that the Home Office would normally expect children to be free of conditions on their stay, when considering a discretionary application, as would be the case with your children. So, ILR it is, followed by inclusion in your own naturalisation application. ...

I can't see that it would be a problem myself, if, as you say, the difference is only minor and it's pretty clear that it is only a variation in spelling...

In fact what is interesting I was just told by my solicitor thta home office does not issue these letters any more..... I don't know whether this is true or not. There are people who apply for ILR who are unable to get passports - eg refugees - so I wonder what IND does in these circumstances, if t...

I think the point is that if the documents you mention support your claim to meet the residence requirement, then they'll be useful. But don't include them simply to increase the weight of your application.

...What happens if someone without such a letter loses his passport?... I think that you just have to hope that the IND computer has the record - which shouldn't be a problem except perhaps if the ILR was granted decades ago, when "digital" meant something to do with fingers... I'm sure t...

Just to comment on the "ILR letter" issue. If there is one, it's probably important to keep it, because it's a useful back-up to the endorsement in the passport. BUT not everyone gets one. It is entirely possible that AG's passport was returned to his/her solicitor with a compliments slip ...

As you are not in the United Kingdom, I think this is in the wrong forum. I am moving it to the "Europe" forum.