Perfect. No further children, partner isn’t from the UK so I’ll poliely decline their offer of a certificate of entitlement and request citizenship by decent of mother, the end goal being my British passport.
Just an update :-) I’ve been given an NTL residents BRP, and the letter that came with it states “please send us your current US passport so we can finalise your application for a certificate of entitlement”. Happy Days, much relieved. One last question, I was going to apply on the UKM form for dece...
Hi all. thanks for all the support so far. The latest is the post has been and gone again today and the letter that the Windrush Taskforce sent on Monday has still not arrived. So I picked up the phone and called them again, I asked the content of the letter which was sent to me and all she was allo...
It was rejected because the ILE stamps are of the very old wet ink type, all they said was they couldn’t find me in the system (Windrush). My ILE has not lapsed, the last of my stamps was in 2009 and I’ve been in continuous full time employment with the same employer since 1985. I’ve spent all my li...
Thank you for the reply. So my Son’s passport although a renewal was originally applied for first time by Mother as a settled Polish citizen. Nearly 5 years on when we go to renew it the passport office withdraw his first passport and send us a letter saying THEY messed up first time around by not r...
Hello, thanks for great advice and pointers, here is my story. I was born in the USA in 1966 and shortly after traveled to the UK to be bought up by my British born mother. Father is American and maternal Grandparents are British born. Have lived here in the UK pretty much ever since. I have several...
I’m reading this with great interest, I’m in an almost identical position. Was born in the USA then settled and bought up in the UK by my British mother. Indefinite leave to enter wet stamps started to appear in my expired passports around 1979 and the most recent one is stamped in 2009. I have no o...
I’m following this with interest. I was born in the USA and settled as a child with my British born mother around 1979. Around this time I have passports with the old style wet ink stamps showing indefinite leave to enter the UK. The most recent of these is stamped in to an expired passport in 2009....
