Travel with ILR while Citizenship is approved

[syedalitarek]

Hello friends,

My wife's citizenship is approved and waiting for the ceremony.

We are booked to travel abroad on 17 Oct for an important visit

Now, will it be ok if she travels with her ILR. Once we return to Heathrow can we provide ILR and also produce her citizenship certificate? Will it create any problem as she is supposed to return the ILR BRP within 5 working days of receiving the citizenship certificate.

I just called the helpline both Homeoffice and HMPO both did not have any clue.

Any suggestion?

Thank you.

[CR001]

She is only British AFTER she has attended her ceremony. The BRP card must be returned within 5 days of the ceremony.

Suggest schedule the ceremony for after you have traveled.

Note, HMPO has NOTHING to do with citizenship approval or ILR BRP cards, HMPO is only responsible for British Passports.

[BigMo]

Hey

My (very limited) understanding is that a person does not become a BC until after the citizenship ceremony. So should be okay to travel with her BRP until her ceremony. The day she gets her certificate is the day she will qualify as a BC, so her BRP will no longer be valid as of that date. Not entirely sure what emergency documents she can request. I suppose even if she has a citizenship certificate, it's not a valid travel document (?) and she might have issues boarding the plane/train when returning.

Assuming it doesn't cause any unintended consequences, a practical workaround may be to delay the citizenship ceremony (?)

Would be keen to understand more experienced members' views on this..

[aman90]

CR001’s has already advised and ur needlessly overthinking it.
The ceremony needs to be booked within 3 months.

[CULLINAN]

Hey

My (very limited) understanding is that a person does not become a BC until after the citizenship ceremony. So should be okay to travel with her BRP until her ceremony. The day she gets her certificate is the day she will qualify as a BC, so her BRP will no longer be valid as of that date. Not entirely sure what emergency documents she can request. I suppose even if she has a citizenship certificate, it's not a valid travel document (?) and she might have issues boarding the plane/train when returning.

Assuming it doesn't cause any unintended consequences, a practical workaround may be to delay the citizenship ceremony (?)

Would be keen to understand more experienced members' views on this..

You already got the reply from one of the most experienced mod of this forum