turns out its not required. challan (bill) from passport surrender would be sufficient.

i wasn't able to apply for renunciation of Indian citizenship along with passport surrender as the former has to be done in London Goswell VFS only. i had to submit my original indian passport with the passport surrender application. now my question is, do i need original passport to submit renuncia...

unless you have surrender certificate with you, you cannot complete OCI and citizenship renunciation in a single application.

Thank you!

Hello all, apologies if this has been asked earlier. my mother in law (indian citizen) has 2 year visit visa till december of 2021. she was due to leave UK on 26th of march. however due India closing borders on 18th March, her ticket is scheduled for may 3rd. her 6 months allowance finishes on 17th ...

Thanks a lot for the replies.
My daughter is special needs and I find that when ever my mother in law visits us my daughter feels so happy.
I thought dept visa would facilitate her stay longer.

I am pondering over applying for a depedent visa for my mother in law. she is a widower and lives alone in india. any thoughts/ideas most welcome.
would be interested to hear of recent successful applications.

finally got the corrected certificate of registration in the post today. its been roughly just over 2 months for the correction. however i noticed that the home office reference number is printed wrong. to be honest i would just leave it as the applicant name along with the place and date of birth a...

Fingers crossed you get a speedy response. Keep us updated please. mate! finally received the registration document. i phone the home office and they confirmed that they indeed did not post the document earlier. received the document today. thanks for your kind support. So pleased for you, well don...

Hi everyone, I have a couple of questions:- 1. Will I need to photocopy and self-attest all the pages of my Passport or just the used pages? 2. Will I be able to collect my surrender certificate from VFS Goswell Road instead of paying for the return envelope? Thank you for reading. you need to self...

CR001 wrote:Fingers crossed you get a speedy response. Keep us updated please.

mate! finally received the registration document. i phone the home office and they confirmed that they indeed did not post the document earlier.
received the document today.

thanks for your kind support.

you are absolutely right. epilepsy is not of main concern as she is receiving the treatment here. i would like her to get some Ayurvedic treatment for under developmental delay. however as you righlty mentioned, this wouldn't be the key in deciding whether to change or not to charge me for the certi...

This is the main content in the letter i have written to the home office I am the father of the applicant Miss. __________. _____ has been issued her British passport on March of 2017. However, we haven’t received the Certificate of Registration document in the post. In fact we were not aware that s...

Will do!
Thank you for everything!
You take care!
Good luck!

Well done!
I will not be throwing Any letters from home office from now on!

Just been through all the documents and I only one I have from UK govt posted to my daughter is the dvla disability living allowance for her.
You are absolutely right, it's a mistake I will regret for eternity! I should have kept the envelope and passport covering letter if any

I am sending off a letter to the home office tomorrow. If its destined that I will have to pay then no body can change it! I will have to pay!
Let's see

I have disposed off it as It didn't appear to be important. Surely it didn't mention of any certificate.
It a mistake, I should have kept it.

Oh my god! I wouldn't have missed such a thing if I received it. And with my OCD I would have laminated it by now and put it in a locker for safety. I received an envelope with the passport. It was a small brown coloured one. Looks like the passport and the certificate were supposed to come separate...

Yes, but I am pretty certain that nothing about this certificate was stated on that.

As much un-convincing as it may sound, I am honestly telling you that I was really ignorant of the existence of such certificate till now. i received my naturalisation certificate at the end of my ceremony and not through post. more over i did not receive any letter as a heads up about this certific...

Oh my god! its 234 pounds for a replacement certificate! we haven't been issued with one on the first place! how should i make this point clear?? if not for the surrender the Indian passport incident, i wouldn't have known that there is something called Certificate of Registration as a British citiz...

very true. I tried calling the home office but just cant get hold of them even after staying on the line for 25-40 minutes. I shall fill the duplicate certificate requisition form and include a covering letter stating the scenario. if i am lucky i would be issued with one for free, or else i would h...

My wife has just applied for the 2nd period of ILR dependent visa. she came to UK in 2008 so she should be eligible for ILR based on long term stay, in 2018 (provided that visa is still issued then). I am sure i did not receive any envelop apart from the passport. so i guess i would have to fill in ...

We applied for a joint service. she received her passport in March of 2017.
It was me who opened the envelop and it only had a passport. looks like the registration certificate has been lost in the transit. i shall contact home office straight away.
thank you very much!