Hi,
I hope that someone here will be able to answer this. I have my appointment booked with the Nationality Checking Service and I have been told that I will need to bring all of my old passports to the appointment for coping/scanning and certification purposes. I entered the UK in 2000 on a passport that was issued to me in my maiden name and which expired in 2008. When I received a new one I destroyed the old one as I did not think I would ever need it again. I got married in 2010 to a British Citizen and I changed my surname to his and the same year I got a new passport issued to me in my married name. At the time of me collecting my new passport, the old one got taken away by the official at the Consulate. Now, I am being told that that I am required to produce all of my old passports that is the one on which I originally entered the UK in 2000 as well as the one that was issued to me in 2008. Does anyone have any experience of this at all? People loose their passports etc. surely, there must be a way round it. I contacted the Immigration and Nationality Helpline and have been advised that it may be problematic and that I have to write cover letters explaining why I do not have my old passports any more but that there is no way of letting me know what potential implications of my inability to produce the old passports may bear on my citizenship application since it is up to the caseworker to decide. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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