That's a good idea.

I only have the letter from the Home Office though as my birth certificate is foreign. I pay no utility bills where I live but do pay a credit card. Is that enough.

royh, you have posted your query in the British Citizenship section of this board. So is it the case that you think you need your passport in order to apply for British Citizenship? Is that your concern? Or put it another way, you are not really bothered about getting your passport back? But you do...

I don't want to say it's "lost" Unfortunately, that may well be the case. Send a copy of the above letter to the UKBA again, with another covering letter. Use registered post. When does your passport expire? Where you given ILE when you initially entered, in 1980; or after your school tri...

Long post but the situation is not complicated imo. Ok so I came into the country in 1980 when I was 2 years old. This was under my parents passport so I never had a passport and had to get one form my embassy. Never left the country except for a day trip to France when I was in secondary school. Wh...