1. By "current climate" I was referring to the "hostile environment" which is more and more being expanded to cover not just irregular but also legal migration. The HO was a much more relaxed department before the Tories came to office. The good character requirement has been tou...

One other point, on which you may want to seek legal advice based on all the facts: s.29 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 is what we call a summary offence. There is a statute of limitations for summary offences in s.127 of the Magistrates Courts Act 1980. This means that s.29 would n...

Hi hlodryk I apologise if the post was confusing. My reference to "deception and non-disclosure" related only to deception/fraud used in the naturalisation proceeding itself, or in previous immigration applications. It has no direct bearing on the question of whether the applicant is of &q...

Hi, I'm new to this blog. Have a question on behalf of those EU nationals applying for BC who have been driving their cars on EU plates (obviously having regular EU MOT's and valid EU insurance) for significantly longer period than legally allowed 6 moths. Can such circumstance - if found and confi...

1. An EEA(PR) holder can previously have "overstayed" if they were not an EEA national at the time, they had leave to remain, and they remained in the country once that leave expired. So the answer is: yes. UKVI will take into account the previous 10 years, so will look beyond the qualifyi...

Is a letter signed by the embassy mandatory? This sounds like a pain, and my 'country of origin' country isn't very helpful. Could I apply with my deed + certified translation of an extract of the relevant regulations from my country of origin official government website? Given the wording of Annex...

I received my first UK passport yesterday in my assumed name which is different from the name in my other passport. It took HMPO only 16 days in total to issue the passport, and I wasn't quizzed about the name change at the interview at all. Here's how I went about it: - I sent a one-page explanatio...

Passport for: Adult Application Type: First UK passport (following naturalisation) Applying from: UK Method of application: By post (signed-for, no check and send) Date documents sent: 24 Jan 2017 Date tracking number indicated documents received by HMPO: 25 Jan 2017 Location of Office involved: Bel...