Hi Guru's,
I am looking for some advice on documents required for first child passport after naturalisation. I have applied for my daughter's passport around 6 weeks ago and sent all the required documents to HMPO. However, as the application was taking longer than expected, I called HMPO and requested if they have verified the supporting documents, then can they please return my daughter's foreign passport which is expired. I needed this passport to surrender at Indian Embassy because India doesn't allow dual citizenship and I need surrender certificate to apply for Indian visa's etc. We were planning to travel in December that's why I thought while the passport application is being processed I can apply for surrender certificate to save some time.
I received a call from a passport officer yesterday night around 8:30 PM and he told me that he has made a copy of passport and is returning it with first class post. I asked him if the application will be processed anytime soon, he said he is going to deal with application and he has got everything he needs. He will verify the information provided and issue the British passport for my daughter. However, he emailed me after the call and stated that he has returned my daughter's Indian passport but in order for him to issue the British passport I need to submit a confirmation from Indian consulate confirming that my daughter's Indian passport has been cancelled. This was not required when we applied our British passports few weeks ago. So I am wondering why in this case he is asking for this. I have replied back to him querying this but he hasn't replied to me yet.
My problem is that currently there are no appointments available at Indian embassy for surrender of Indian passport and it will take any where between 6 to 8 weeks to get surrender certificate and cancelled passport from Indian consulate. This will mean that I can't get my daughter's British Passport until December end.
Has anyone else experienced this with HMPO? Am I right in questioning that why they want us to show proof of renunciation of Indian citizenship when UK has no issues with Dual nationality.
Any guidance will be very helpful.
Thanks
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