devic wrote:
2) When applying for citizenship what exactly will be in the passport.
3) After getting citizenship, can we travel to all the European countries without a schengen visa or is British passport compulsory.
Nothing gets put in your current passport, although your indefinite leave to remain (if that is the status you had) becomes invalid in the sense that British citizens cannot have "leave to remain" in the UK since they have the right of abode in the UK.
If you have no intention of travelling outside the UK, then of course a British passport is not essential (although it is useful, quick proof of your status if that is ever needed, and it is a good identity document too, of course).
If you do intend to travel, then you need to do one of two things. The usual thing is to apply for a British passport, which you can do as soon as you've been to the citizenship ceremony (though not before then). This will act as proof of your status when you re-enter the UK and will naturally allow you to travel to other EU/EEA countries without a visa. If you travel on your old passport to Europe you will need whatever documentation you need now (i.e. the fact that you have become a British citizen won't make any difference).
The alternative, less satisfactory thing to do is to apply for a right of abode certificate to be placed in your current passport. This is only possible if you are still a citizen of your first country, and it is also only possible if you don't have a British passport (i.e. you can't have both a British passport and a right of abode certificate in another passport).
This certificate in your passport demonstrates that you have the right of abode in the UK, and you can re-enter the UK as if you had a British passport. However, it has no bearing on your status in other countries, so it does not, for example, facilitate travel to other European countries in the same way that a British passport does.
So the most sensible thing is to apply for a British passport after naturalisation, certainly if you want to travel in Europe.
