I think it's reasonable to expect them to process the application as if it was a first child British passport application. Does the passport application require the same, compared with what they are requesting? Yes, the passport application requires roughly the same. However, this is not uniform ac...

If you are British otherwise than by descent at the time of child's birth, then you are correct . Yes, I was. I naturalised. They've written back to me saying that our application for a COE will be processed as if we are applying for a British passport. They've sent us a long list of documents such...

Thank you again Vinny. I have written to them quoting section 2(1)(a) of the 1981 British Nationality Act and the basis for an application for a certificate of entitlement from the 2006 Immigration Regulations. Before, they tried to tell me that I should register my son as a British citizen before I...

I'm am British and our son born in Nigeria is British by descent (I was British before he was born). We submitted an application for a certificate of entitlement for him with all the required supporting documents. However, we got this email from the High Commission: "We would like to inform you...

Problem, gurus please help. We submitted an application for a certificate of entitlement with all the required supporting documents. We got this email from them UK High Commission: "We would like to inform you that we are unable to issue a right of Abode Certificate as the Visa Section does not...

A big eye opener for me

vinny wrote: refuse a visa application.

Thanks, Vinny. You've been helpful to me over many years.

All British citizens have right of abode where as visit visa application has requirements which need to be met and if person dealing with application is not satisfied, they might refuse the application whereas ROA is entitlement. That is the only thing I can think of. I don't know anything about fe...

Many thanks, akhurshid. That's a viable way to go. It's good to know we have options. However, it is more expensive and the processing times are no shorter than applying for a child visitor visa for my son. The goal is to get him in the UK and apply for his British passport from inside the UK. So, w...

You cannot apply from within the UK for a British passport for him. On the declaration form of the passport application, you must confirm you and the child are in the UK. Moreover, they will ask for the passport the child used to travel to the UK if you use the form designed for applications from wi...

I need help. I am British, living in the UK. My wife is a Nigerian and she gave birth to our son in Nigeria last year. She applied for a spouse visa and has got it; She will be here in UK on 5 March 2015. My son is British by descent since at the time of his birth I was already a British citizen. If...

Man, I am in a similar problem. May be my experience so far can help you, and I will need help from others as well. I am British, living in the UK. My wife is Nigerian and she gave birth to our son in Nigeria last year. She applied for a spouse visa and has got it; She will be here in UK on 5 March ...

I have 2 children with a non-UK woman who is living with the children outside the UK. The children are British. I would like to live with her and the children in the UK. I am a British national living in the UK. My preferred route is to bring her here as my unmarried partner; however, I am to show I...

@ Ame

I think those of us who applied before February or March are receiving the old visa stamps and not the biometric cards.

I'm the guy who panicked his application could be returned invalid, for whatever reason, after the expiry of leave to remain, therby making me an overstayer. http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=99002&highlight= Just got indefinite leave to remain, ironically granted a day before I m...

You will have to satisfy the Secretary of State that you intend to live together permanently as husband and wife. This is by way of evidence. A major proof is that after you got married, you lived together as husband and wife for at least 2 years (you are asked to provide letters and documents showi...

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Thank you all for your contributions. vinny is right that one can make multiple applications, provided he or she does so within the currency of leave to remain, and accompanies the applications with corresponding fees. Therefore, what I did was allowable, even though unusual but not unreasonable. As...

I have two applications currently pending with the UKBA. I qualify in two categories. I submitted Application 1 three weeks before my leave to remain (LTR) expired. In the 3 weeks to the day my LTR expired, I worried constantly that the UKBA could, for some reason, return Application 1 as invalid AF...

I have two applications currently pending with the UKBA. I qualify in two categories. I submitted Application 1 three weeks before my leave to remain (LTR) expired. In the 3 weeks to the day my LTR expired, I worried constantly that the UKBA could, for some reason, return Application 1 as invalid AF...