1. I do not have any criminal records and have never had any conviction by court. However, once I was irresponsible and used freedom pass to travel and was caught and fortunately because of my honesty and circumstances It did not go to court and was settled by way of payment to TFL. My question is, after this unfortunate incident (which i really regretted) I applied for Permanent Residence and it was granted to me few months ago. Now I am waiting when the 12 month period will pass so that I can proceed and apply for the naturalisation(as I am a EU citizen, after receiving the PR it is a requirement that I need to wait for 12 months and only then i can apply for the naturalisation). However, my only worry is that the naturalisation application is more strict and asks about the good character. I wonder if the Home Office carry out exactly the same checks for Permanent Residence applications and for the Naturalisation applications (checks on good character)? I am slightly worried that for the Naturalisation application they will dig deeper and will find out somehow from the TFL that i have been in trouble with the fares in the past which does not look good on my good character requirement and then my application would definitely be refused.
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2. My mother just had her ceremony for the british citizenship. I wonder if she can still keep her previous passport? meaning that she would hold a dual citizenship? Could someone please explain how does it work? Or as soon as you receive the British passport, do you have to send them back your previous passport that is from a different country?