Visa separate from Passport and needing to travel

[sanfair]

Hi

The Home Office lost my passport last year but after much wrangling granted me FLR anyway on a piece of paper called an Immigration Status Document.
My new passport has apparently finally been issued and I'm planning on visiting South Africa in October.

Does anyone know if having the visa separate from my new passport will be a problem when I want to come back to the UK?
I seem to remember hearing that you have to pay quite a bit to get a visa put into a passport at the Home Office. Does anyone know if that's correct?

[SYH]

I was just looking up this issue for myself for a different reason
Go to
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/contac ... onenquries AND
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/applyi ... tionforms/
Form and guide NTLTOC - transfer of an indefinite or limited leave stamp to a new passport or other document

Form NTLTOC (81 kb)

NTLTOC guidance (54 kb)

For your information, you can travel with a new valid passport without having your leave transferred from the previous passport, provided that you carry your old passport with the endorsement of leave, or the letter in which your leave was granted.

It is up to individuals to ensure their travel documents are kept up to date and are valid for travel. The decision to admit a person at port is made by the immigration officer based on the information and evidence presented to them.

[Dawie]

There is absolutely no problem at all travelling with your new passport and the immigration status document. You could have the visa transferred to your new passport but it's unnecessary and a waste of money (a LOT of money these days).