Sorry I can not access my private messages, states "You are not authorised to read private messages." :? I have sent a request to the HMPO to provide me a formal refusal letter with the reason for decision . At present I await their reply and will be in touch once I receive a response. Li...
This from UK parliament website. Deprivation of British citizenship and withdrawal of passport facilities - Commons Library Standard Note Published 30 January 2015 Standard notes SN06820: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/briefing-papers/SN06820/deprivation-of-british-citizensh...
Written statement to Parliament The issuing, withdrawal or refusal of passports From: Home Office and The Rt Hon Theresa May Delivered on: 25 April 2013 The most recent information I can find: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-issuing-withdrawal-or-refusal-of-passports It's seems mostly to ...
nathan, does your wife included her marriage certificate with the application? I have a similar problem. The different is that I can't cancel my home passport because it's against the Law of my country, and now I have a dual nationality. To change name in my home passport is not possible as I need ...
Update to my wife's case. I phoned the Philippine embassy (London) to ask about my wife's current citizenship & status of her Filipino passport. The embassy's passport department have confirmed verbally that: as of the date of her UK naturalisation she is no longer a Filipino citizen & her F...
Interesting that this FOI request was granted while the passport office keeps telling me that I cannot see the policy because it is 'confidential'. Is that one of those 'exempt' materials that the FOI rules mention? It is becoming increasingly clear that this new name rule, while serving no purpose...
Wow this a very interesting and informative thread which I am glad I have clicked on. I am getting married in August and my new husband and I will go on our honeymoon in December (to Philippines!) I will have a passport from Canada in my maiden name but need the British passport to be issued in my ...
Useful background info from a previous FOI request, see: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/requirement_to_submit_foreign_pa#incoming-552095 - the same as a PDF file: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/216367/response/552095/attach/3/32065%20final%20Battley.pdf The above includes a link to t...
Thanks for your news Antsmall, it chimes with this experience... Callback Was called by HM PO today. The official was helpful, fairly open & patient to questioning. Our case has been referred 'somewhere' (to some unit) for an 'opinion'; it was referred in mid-March & chased up (internally) i...
Called passport help line (0300 222 0000) again. Although helpful & patient the operator said he could not see specific details of the case - he was able to confirm "it's been received & sent for processing"; - he also noted there was a 'query' (but said no details were visible to ...
Update Application Timeline (2 of 2 applications) Passport for: Adult Application Type: New (1st time: naturalised citizen) Method of application: Check & Send Date of application: 11 Mar 2015 (resubmitted after correcting form) Date application received by IPS: 12 March 2015 Date of return of ...
That's really great! Do we need to submit original Marriage Certificate when applying for her British Passport. This thread tells folks are having problems with different names etc. Please take a look before making a decision. Thanks for giving me a heads up. I'm now completed perplexed and don't k...
Thanks, Noajthan. (As you can see, I'm checking this thread obsessively too). So the crucial issue is whether this no-discrepancy rule still exists. Is it possible that it persists in some unpublished manual which the passport people are using, or in general that it is the current rule even if we d...
Ref a request, made in 2011 under FOI, for IPS (HM PO) passport-related documents... 'current operations manual' used by the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) in processing passport applications: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/73668/response/206887/attach/html/3/18864%20Simpson%20internal%...
Ref UK National Archives - about the (limited) official records of name changes (made in UK)... http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/change-of-name.htm Interestingly it states: It is still perfectly legal for anyone over the age of 16 to start using a new name at any time, as l...
Still nothing received in writing from HM PO to explain their apparent refusal of my wife's passport application. Here's a similar recent case, again from this year: http://www.immigrationboards.com/british-citizenship/british-passport-refused-t179624.html - clearly some internal rules have changed...
Well that is very interesting and - dare we hope? - encouraging. Thanks Vinny for that information. On page 4 this document from 23 July 2013 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/230586/OS_Guidance_Notes_08.13.pdf it says under 'change of name in passport': &quo...
Still nothing received in writing from HM PO to explain their apparent refusal of my wife's passport application. Here's a similar recent case, again from this year: http://www.immigrationboards.com/british-citizenship/british-passport-refused-t179624.html - clearly some internal rules have changed ...
From the UK gov 'Names' document, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118564/Names-changes-of-name.pdf Note it's unclear what regulation or law this policy is based on; (no such details given in the document). All applications involving a change of name, whether...
Hi, you're probably right . But I sent an explanation letter to the HMPO why I cannot change of surname in my foreign passport and got an answer : "it is the policy of Her Majesty’s Passport office not to issue a passport when we are aware of a passport being held in another identity. Therefor...
I am also have the same problem. I have applied for my first British passport and been refused on grounds that in my foreign passport - old name and I applied for a British passport in new name :? Certificate of Naturalisation issued in my new name. Managed to find : https://www.gov.uk/government/u...
