Passport is sufficient. You need to send all passports to prove residence, so if your old passport covers a period of the 3 years, you must send it. If applying by post yourself, ie NOT through NCS, you must send your original passports as copies won't be accepted. You don't need any of the other l...

Sorry If I could ask two further questions about completing form AN/documents 1. Proving evidence of identity, if an old passport was used as proof of identity when taking the Knowledge of Life in the UK test and I now have a new passport - is the new passport sufficient? or do I need to send the ol...

Many thanks Bruteforce for easing my mind

Thank you Bruteforce Are you saying that the date of issue on the pink coloured BRP is sufficient even if it is not the actual date ILR was granted - sorry i just wanted to double check if the actual date is a few days before the card was printed how would I find out the date ILR was actually grante...

Hi, I am completing from AN - can anybody advise if the date a person is given ILR for the purpose of answering question 1.3 of the form is the date that is on the Biometric resident permit/card - where it states Place and date of issue on the card?

Thanks for your help.

Just an update on our trip to Italy, we got through Ryanair checkin/visa check without any hassle, we had no issue boarding the plane at that gate, and we were a little worry about about the immigration on arrival in Italy, but we simply handed over our passports and after a minute of the border gua...

Thanks EUsmileWEallsmile, i see what you mean. i think we shall still try it at the airport anyway, what documents do you think we should bring along ( on the off chance we get on the plane and to the border), council tax bill, joint bills etc, and we also have our daughter birth cert which has both...

Hi EUsmileWEallsmile it was VFS that refused the application, they first of all asked for the application form which was ok, then asked to see my Uk passport and a copy which was ok and then asked for our marriage certificate and a copy, it was then that the problem arose, they never even got to the...

can anyone offer any advice on our situation below: We( my wife and I) had planned to travel to italy on 16 april for 7 days, we applied for a schengen visa through the VFS office in UK , we were unable to provide them with a marriage certificate which had a hague apostille stamp on it from the stat...