Type: First adult passport after naturalisation From: UK Method: Online Passport office: HMPO Newport Online Application: 29 Sep 2020 Identity Verified: 29 Sep 2020 Documents Sent: 30 Sep 2020 Documents delivered and signed as per Royal Mail: 01 Oct 2020 Date Documents Received Status: 02 Oct 2020 A...

Thanks for all members for their valuable input. I have attended the ceremony and got citizenship certificate but not applied for passport yet. I had to travel immediately due to some emergency in a family. I have checked through this link my BRP is still active and showing status for work. I didn’...

If OP has received their British certificate, why do they still have their ILR BRP?? That's illegal! The BRP needs to be returned within 5 days of receiving the certificate! OP needs to follow the rules of Britain that they are now a citizen of, they have taken an oath to abide by the rules of the l...

Thank you! To you too!

Hope your certificate gets corrected much sooner than mine but keep a time frame of upto two months in mind unfortunately

Hi Lopand I am unable to PM you I'm so sorry to hear your certificate also had an error My corrected certificate just came in a regular white envelope in standard post, no tracking no signing, you couldn't even tell it was an important document!! Plus my postman stuffed it into my mailbox so it was ...

Admins could I please ask for this thread to be renamed "citizenship certificate correction" to make it easier for others in a similar boat to find and get a sense of the current timelines

Thanks both! Yes it's an end to a really emotionally trying experience. Have put it my passport application now, fingers crossed

Really pleased to report I received my corrected citizenship certificate at my home address this morning!
I cannot say if the letter to the MP helped 'speed' things up but it took 7 weeks for my corrected certificate to reach me.

Omg this sounds absolutely horrible I'm so sorry you have to go through this
Please write to your MP asap this is completely unacceptable behaviour on Royal Mail's and HO's part to have been so careless with such an important document that impacts your life

ILR_MN1 wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 26, 2020 3:00 pm

I'm told, if I attend the ceremony then my travel document (ILR BRP) will be invalid to travel and I need to obtain passport before I can travel. Can you please confirm if that is correct.

This is 100% correct and I've confirmed this with the Home Office and my council both

When do you come back from your holiday? If its before end Oct then ask your Council if you can do your ceremony after you come back before your 3 months end But if your trip is not urgent I would highly highly recommend you postpone it and get done with your ceremony + British passport. If you don'...

I still don't have any update of when I can receive my corrected certificate, neither from my MP nor my Council. It's been 7 weeks. If anyone else is in a similar boat, i.e. their certificate is with the Home Office for correction during the pandemic, please let me know how long your certificate has...

Thanks vaza and CR001 I've returned my ILR BRP since the moment I took my naturalization oath and became a British citizen my BRP became invalid. Unfortunately my current passport is not from a country where I can enter the UK without a valid entry visa or residence permit of some sort. I'm not tryi...

No update as yet! I called the HO and they confirmed I cannot travel at all before I receive my British passport now, even if in case of an emergency. They also said they have no idea how long my certificate correction will take since it doesn't have any 'standard processing time' So basically I ha...

No update as yet! I called the HO and they confirmed I cannot travel at all before I receive my British passport now, even if in case of an emergency. They also said they have no idea how long my certificate correction will take since it doesn't have any 'standard processing time' So basically I had...

It's been nearly a month since I did my citizenship ceremony, however my certificate is still with the Home Office for correction, since the Council sent it back to the Home Office and I never got to see it either. I contacted my MP and they confirmed that they contacted the Home Office on my behal...

My certificate had a spelling mistake. I sent it for correction in January, and then after 1 month or so I sent them a letter asking what is going on. I received a phone call a few days later, where they said that they are sorry for delay and that my certificate is on the way. Indeed, it arrived a ...

It's been nearly a month since I did my citizenship ceremony, however my certificate is still with the Home Office for correction, since the Council sent it back to the Home Office and I never got to see it either. I contacted my MP and they confirmed that they contacted the Home Office on my behalf...

I am not asking for help on how long it will take for my issue to be sorted. All I want to know is am I basically not allowed to travel until I receive a corrected certificate and a British passport?? Given my ILR is now obsolete So am I stuck in a limbo? It is NOT advisable to travel with an inval...

I am not asking for help on how long it will take for my issue to be sorted.

All I want to know is am I basically not allowed to travel until I receive a corrected certificate and a British passport?? Given my ILR is now obsolete

So am I stuck in a limbo?

After doing the citizenship ceremony and before receiving a British passport, are you basically stuck in limbo not being able to travel anywhere??

Since the ILR becomes invalid and you obviously can not travel using the citizenship certificate

(please admins don't merge this with my other post)

The HO website says: " After you get your certificate You must send your biometric residence permit (BRP) back to the Home Office within 5 working days of getting your certificate of British citizenship. Cut your BRP into 4 pieces and put it in a windowless envelope. Include a note saying you’r...

Hoping I get some help on this forum. There is still no update on how long my citizenship certificate will take to be corrected and when I can apply for a British passport. Can I travel on my ILR until then? The HO website says to return ILR 5 days after receiving the citizenship certificate and sin...

Two weeks ago the council sent my citizenship certificate back to the Home Office as there was some error in the date printed on the certificate. I'm not sure which date was wrong as I never saw the certificate. Just now my council called me to say they contacted the HO for an update and the HO say ...

BRP must be returned to HO when you attend the ceremony. That is because you lose the ILR status when you become British and the BRP is invalid :!: :!: That's exactly what my main consideration is as well But at the moment I don't have any proof that I'm a British Citizen until I get the certificat...