It is indeed a bit tricky - nowadays they state that they abolished both "permanently living abroad" status, end, effectively, consulate registration. So the issue with internal passport exists for everybody who ever wants to visit Russia (and the process is to get new birth certificate an...
PS: hi obormot can you please provide a link to RF emb "dropping patronymic via change of name via consulate" please (unless its a case of marriage)? Change of name is an internal RF procedure and requires application in person to Zags? Russian citizen can change their name legally rather...
My citizenship certificate had a mistake (misspelled place of birth), which was clearly HO mistake (I entered the correct name of my birth city on my naturalisation application, and it is a well-known large city). I sent the certificate back for correction, together with their form and appropriate p...
I am not sure you can do it - my impression is that name on UK passport should be the same as on UK naturalisation certificate.
So if you do not want patronymic to appear in passport as part of the main name (and not just added note), then you should change certificate first.
I know of several people (myself included) who exceeded even 100 days in last 12 months, and got citizenship. In all those cases most of travel was for work reasons though (and letter from work was included), but I am not sure it was that important. They (we) all submitted proof that we made UK our ...
I know of several Russian people - kids and adults - who got UK passport with NAME SURNAME + an additional note "also known as NAME Farherwich SURNAME" But they did not have patronymic on UK citizenship certificate, only in russian passport, and in Cyrillic (but passport people discovered ...
I should add that when one goes to the french website https://france-visas.gouv.fr/en_US/web/france-visas/ai-je-besoin-d-un-visa If I choose "short stay, less then 90 days" then it says that in the case I discuss one needs visa unless they are "in possession of a long-stay visa or hol...
OK. Theoretical question: Under this interpretation of that phrase, the Surinder Singh EU residence cards (issued by UK and your sponsor is UK citizen) do not allow family member to travel to other EU countries visa free. So there is some problem with this phrase, context or not, no? (Non Article 10...
Guys, may I also ask a couple more questions: 1. Do they stamp the passport for non EU family member when entering/exiting Schengen zone, if they are travelling on EU residence card with their EU sponsor? 2. What if we enter together, but then my family member needs to leave and go back to UK before...
In fact, you can get referee forms in advance, before submitting application - they are blank firms anyway (you do not get forms with you referees data already put on in!) Here: https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/documents/1st_Referee_Declaration_MN1.pdf Referees can sign before or after you s...
I did not look carefully at paper form, but in UK one can only apply online. And, of course, they ask about absences. Physical presence (rules of not more then 450 days abroad in last 5 years and not more then 90 in last year) is an important requirement - and people apparently can be refused with s...
I just applied for child passport (and it was approved, though still did not arrived).
I asked family friend and colleague to countersign (she saw the child, but probably never talked to him).
When she went online to confirm identity, the questions were about how she knows me, not my child..
A non-EU citizen lives in UK as family member of French citizen, and holds PR card (which says "RC of family member of EU citizen"!). If they are a visa national in general, can they still travel to France with their French family member without visa? Many references I look for say somethi...
I thought that, as a general rule, one cannot travel (and needs to ask for return visa which is only given "exceptionally") when one applies for 1st carte de sejour, but when one applies for renewal one can travel with expired CDS + recipisse. ? I actually wonder what happens if one asks f...
I sent them kid's birth certificate yesterday (delivered this morning), and just got the email that his passport was approved.
Still - I went back to online form and checked what documents they asked me initially - there was no mentioning of birth certificate!
My guess is that the only purposes for employment information are: - it shows physical presence/residence in UK - good character issue - no employment in breach of immigration laws, taxes paid, etc If there are no red flags, then I would think that just answering those questions to the best of your ...
When I did information request, I had a copy of the passport certified at post office. The problem however it that in experience of many people this does not give much in case of EU citizens - usually records are empty. I applied for my mother (non EU family member of EU citizen) and the only border...
You can try to request border information, see here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/requests-for-personal-data-uk-visas-and-immigration/request-personal-information-held-by-uk-visas-and-immigration My experience though is that it comes back empty (even for non-EU family members of EU cit...
1) You can include kids in your BC application - it seems the easiest way. Or you can apply later - but if the older becomes 18 they will have do it themselves (which means english test, LIUK, larger fee..) - they have to be less then 18 on the day you apply. 3) I believe European applications are n...
