Hi

I have now made the passport application on the 7th September and understand that it can take upto 6 weeks.

How long does an OCI application take to get approved? And what is the process ?

Would appreciate your help.

Thanks
Rags

Hi,

I would like to get ILR for my parents (father: 65 years and mother: 60 years)

I am a British Citizen.

Has anyone got this visa successfully? SET (F) application.

R.

Thank you very much.

Its clear to me now. I can apply for OCI after British Citizenship which would solve the purpose so that I don't have to apply for a visa to visit India.

Cheers
Rags

John

Thanks for the reply.

I have now entered my Scotland address so that it would be easier to attend the interview somewhere in Edinburgh.

I have got an Indian Passport. I think India doesn't allow dual nationality. Not sure.

Thanks,
Rags

Hi, Pleased to let you know that my British Citizenship Ceremony is booked for the 7th September'09 in Hatfield. I'm planning to make a Passport application on the same day through Check and Send Service. 1) Is it always compulsary that there would be a call for interview for all first passport appl...

It was a single application

Documents submitted were

Passport
Reference letter from the employers covering the 5 year period
Photographs
Application form
HSMP approval letters (both initial and extension)

Rags

Hi, Yes, quite lucky I would say. I was only calling them to inform about my change of address from the next month and they advised me that a decision on your application has just me made yesterday :-) The NCS was based in Hamilton, Scotland. Very professional and friendly. They pointed out an impor...

Hi, Yes, quite lucky I would say. I was only calling them to inform about my change of address from the next month and they advised me that a decision on your application has just me made yesterday :-) The NCS was based in Hamilton, Scotland. Very professional and friendly. They pointed out an impor...

Hi, I've now got my British Citizenship application approved. Had my NCS in Hamilton on 7th July 2009. However, my application was sent out only on the 14th July 2009 to comply with the rule that I must have been in the country 5 years from the date the citizenship application reaches the home offic...

Date of application (NCS): 14 July 2009
Citizenship approved on: 6th August 2009

Awaiting all the other bookings.

Thanks John. I appreciate all your inputs because I would know what angle and at what level of intensity and attention to details I need to provide while making these applications. It always helps. The 12000 INR is a rough guess by me and my brother based on what he use to earn when he was employed....

I send in £200 every month which is equivalent of 16000 INR and the pension is 12000 INR.

So my contribution is about 57% of their total expenditure per month.

Rags

Thanks for the response. I am pretty impressed with the details specifically around the village visits. I am not sure if I would be able to justify a pension amount of 12000 INR. Let me see what happens and update you lot. Many thanks again for all the information that you guys have provided. It is ...

Thanks for the response! I wasn't talking about making them poor and homeless just for the sake of the home office application :-) haha The SET(F) form doesn't stress these points clearly. The way I read form F and guidance notes was, Yes, my parents are financially dependent on me and my brother be...

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Good to see the way home office would be evaluvating the application. All the points you have mentioned are subjective topics. Any idea on how ourselves as applicants and Home office prove each of these points? Example: If someone mentioned that they are homeless / close to...

Hi, My dad is 65 and my mother is 60. I am an ILR and my British Citizenship application is on its way. My brother is on Tier 1 in the UK for the last 2 years and intends to settle down in the UK. I want to get my parents to the UK and have gone through the application and the guidance notes of SET(...

Hi, When you guys said that the application would be straight forward, if you had the right referees, Is there anything in specific that I need to be aware of? I have gone through the home office website and there is a list of people who can act as referees. I have chosen one of them as my accountan...

Hi

I have now got an appointment with the Hamilton Nationality checking service for the 7th July.

Cheers,
Rags

Queue for Nationality checking service depends on which location you apply for I suppose. I can speak for the one in Scotland. I left my name and number on the voice message and it took them 4 working days to return back to me (Excluding the weekends). I was called up on the 24th June and the appoin...

Hey John Looking at it from your point of view, it feels correct. I own my own Limited company. I have got company accounts till the 31st August 2008. After that I don't have any accounts or records. From your point, I am an employee of my own company. That way I have got the P60 which covers the pe...

Hi, Yes, I have read through the AN guidance notes. The documents checklist section says: If you are self employed, you need to provide statements from HMRC for the period of time you were self employed. Also I wrote an email to UBBA Nationality enquiry at Liverpool and the reply was that you can pr...

Hi, I have now taken an appointment with the Nationality Checking Service in Hamilton, Scotland. I would be happy if someone can clarify the following: 1) Can I provide a combination of Payslips, employers letter, P60 and P45's for the period employment? To be specific, what want to confirm is, Exam...

Hi, I have now taken an appointment with the Nationality Checking Service in Hamilton, Scotland. I would be happy if someone can clarify the following: 1) Can I provide a combination of Payslips, employers letter, P60 and P45's for the period employment? To be specific, what want to confirm is, Exam...

Thanks for the response. Everything looks good at the moment. Does anyone have experience of getting hold of the Nationality Checking Service appointments? Or alternatively could anyone let me know approximately how long they take to return the call and how far away would their appointments be? The ...

Ofcourse I can. I have lived in the UK since August 2002. However, in 2003, I had a gap in my stay in the UK. My Work permit has been continuously been active for the period of time I had been away from the country. In 2005, I applied for HSMP and was awarded HSMP in August 05. Then applied for an e...