Oh back to the old place-"the life saver forum". I applied for my first adult passport via check and send on the 6th December and am looking forward to received it before the 23th, the date I'm going to holiday. I have been phoning IPS since monday and was told my application is still bein...

So I will have to get all documents updated before sending to IPS? Would it be better I change it after I have my passport?

I am thinking to get my name changed before applying for a first passport. What sort of documents do I need to include with the application? I thought I'd need my deed poll, current and previous non-british passports and certificated of naturalization. Am I correct? Should I first need to change all...

how much does it cost you to use a solicitor?

I'm abit confused on how to calculate the day of absences, do you include the day of departures and arriavals when calculating absences? e.g. departure day is 19/06/10 and arrival day is 29/06/10. is the day of absences for this trip 9 days, 10 days or 11 days?

I've been accepted to an interesting postgraduate course that I really wanna study, would it be possible for me to switch my work permit back to student visa? What are the most important criteria will HO require for my application?

thank you for your reply i much appreciate it!!

Hi guys! I held a student visa from June 1999 (first entered UK on September 1999) untill January 2007 and I'm holdin a WP visa at the moment. My application for the WP and FLR was sent before January 2007 via a solicitor and it took 2 months to be processed so my WP is valid from March 2007 untill ...