waitingformonths wrote:Eligibility criteria: 5 years (WP + Tier 1) + 1 year ILR
Method of application: NCS Manchester
Date of application: 15-Aug-2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 19-Aug-2013
Date acknowledged: 21-Aug-2013 (dated 19-Aug-2013)
Date of Fees taken: 19-Aug-2013
Approval Letter Dated: 13-Nov-2013
Approval Letter Received On: 23-Nov-2013
attended the ceremony last week. I am all done now.
Now I can relax and dispose a suit case full of supporting documents I have kept safe with me dating almost 9 years back. I will really enjoy doing this, so I am going to buy a new shredder just for this
Interesting point you have raised there actually...
I have been maintaining and keeping all important records / documentation ever since my very first Visa in the country and through all stages of WP, HSMP, ILR and finally British Citizenship.
These documents (includes several years payslips, P60s, Council tax, bank statements, HO communications, acknowledgements and approval letters, etc, etc, and even car sale/transfer documents of all my previous cars and DVLA confirmations, etc.).
Now that I have been a BC for over several years now, I am thinking is it still required (or worthwhile for any reason?) to keep all these loads of past records?
I had it with me all these years thinking I will need it (just in case I need to prove any part of my history here) until my Wife completes her journey into finally being a BC. Now she has.
So, I am thinking is it still worthwhile to keep carrying on having these docs (especially the ones that I used for visa renewals and various applications in the past 15 years and the HO communications of acknowledgements and approvals) , or is it OK to shred them now.
Would I need any of these in the future at all?
I know it’s all about one’s own choice, but generally speaking until what time should a person keep such audit trail of records that have been accumulated across the timeline of from beginning to the end of BC journey.
One scenario I am thinking where the past documents can come in useful is, in case the govt. later on decides to ask all BCs of foreign nativity, to prove everything about them in terms of UK immigration past until BC?
Maybe I am being paranoid here, but looking at the political dynamics in the UK and the UK public feelings about BCs of foreign background, it’s quite possible for these things to happen.
Anyway, i invite you guys thoughts. Quite honestly, I cannot wait to get rid of the very very old documents. It’s just such big piles of documents sitting in our home