travel required but no passport can you report it as lost

[downlights]

ILR application is taking >6 months for home office "consideration". god knows what they are up to? with so many jobless, you'd have thought they would employ more people to deal with applications.

there now arise a need to travel out of the uk. obviously if you ring them, they would happily take your money and return passport without ilr stamp.

what if you just go to your embassy and report your passport as lost or stolen? surely the newly issued is still a valid passport. so all you need is the new passport plus biometric card. the old passport should be disregard as it is suppose to be "lost"

the travel is back to home country, so could wait in home country until someone in uk (flatmate, friends, relative in the same household etc) inform of biometric card arrival. who can then DHL it for coming back to uk.

will this work?

[uksettlement]

Don't think it will work also it could be termed as fraud as your passport isn't stolen!