travel documents-overstayer

[manUTd]

hi all,
my friend had just found out that he had overstayed his visa since 2008, he had his passport in backlog since 2008.no correspondence from ho except for one letter that was sent to him in 2011 telling him that his application was in backlog.he applied this year for fiance visa bt got refused and on his sar it said he had a refusal in 2008. now the fiance visa application has been reufused. he has called his embassy to get aq travel document as he want to go home.he has been advised to get a form from the police station about lost passport. and then he will get a travel document.
my question to you all is will he get detained when he goes to the police station.and will they refer him to immigration....does anyone know how it works and what should be expected please.

[Ayyubi72]

Nothing would happen to him at Police station. He needs to write a simple letter to police stating his passport details ie number, date issued, name, dob etc and telling them it is lost. Make two copies of the letter. Give one at the police station counter and ask them to stamp the other copy. Submit the stamped copy to the embassy. Keep photocopy of this stamped letter before submitting it to embassy.

[manUTd]

Thank you Ayyubi72,
If I may is there any form to fill out at all?

[Ayyubi72]

I would have told you if there was a form to fill.

Just a simple letter


Date: dd/mm/yy

abc police station
abc street
abc town

Dear sir,

I have misplaced / lost my national passport, and would like to report the same.

Details are as under:

Name:
DOB:
Passport number:
Issuing country:

(Add any other details like date of issue or expiry etc, but not necessary)


Please sign and stamp a copy of this letter as acknowledgement.

thanking you


sign

Mr ABC full name

[manUTd]

Hi ,
We went to the police station . Nothing really happened bt they did ask us to fill out a form and asked a few questions too....