Passport and travel history lost - ILR

[jazzyjee]

Hi, I have been on Tier 2 Visa for 5 years and I am preparing my documents to apply for ILR as a single applicant. As I was preparing I found out that my passport of 5 years has gone missing and I have lost it. My all travel history for the last 5 years has been in that passport. Devastating.

Can I ask you what can I do to support my travel history/absences? I am in a desperate situation looking for advice, can you kindly guide me, please?

[seagul]

Hi, I have been on Tier 2 Visa for 5 years and I am preparing my documents to apply for ILR as a single applicant. As I was preparing I found out that my passport of 5 years has gone missing and I have lost it. My all travel history for the last 5 years has been in that passport. Devastating.

Can I ask you what can I do to support my travel history/absences? I am in a desperate situation looking for advice, can you kindly guide me, please?

Check travel tickets & boarding passes. Sometimes the same can be ascertained through your work schedule or old payslips.

[QR0228]

Can I ask you what can I do to support my travel history/absences? I am in a desperate situation looking for advice, can you kindly guide me, please?

Most airlines in the past 5 years have introduced online check-ins and boarding passes. See if you can find details of travel history from phone apps for airlines or using your email archives (provided you haven't deleted those mails). Also, if you use social media, I would suggest checking Facebook and Instagram tags and check-ins from your past travels. Another helpful way to track flight dates could be checking your Google/Outlook calendar where people tend to save their itinerary.

If your travel was paid for by your workplace, ask the finance department to see when they billed your tickets/hotel reservations. If not, then check your own card payment history or bank statements.

[ajitu92]

In addition to what the other users have suggested, you could also apply for a UKVI Subject Access Request (SAR). This may give you more insight into what records UKVI hold against your name including electronically held landing cards and entry/exit dates from the UK. It can take up to 30 days (I'm still waiting for mine to come through), so if you have the time, it could be another way to go. Please see the below link for more details.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... mmigration

[vinny]

In the future, always scan all pages of passports and keep these for your records.

[jazzyjee]

Thank you for your prompt response.

Yes I do have all the bookings and flights tickets and they all are consistent with the absences I took in last 5 years. I collected them all.

I do have copies for first two pages of the passport I have lost but not the rest of the stamped pages.

As suggested, I just sent the request for SAR, hoping to receive information in 30 days.

If I am not mistaken, are these documents below enough to support my travel history?

As evidence:

1) Police report of lost passport
2) SAR report
3) Statutory Declaration
4) Print outs of all travel tickets
5) Photocopies of new and old passports (lost)
6) BRP of 5 years
7) Absence letter
8. Tenancy Agreements of last 5 years
9) Council tax 5 years
10) P60 forms of 5 years

Please could you advise if anything else would be helpful? Also should I print out all the travel tickets and bind them together?

[gc362952246]

Hi
I lost my passport in 2017 and have just got An approval for my ILR (set o tier 2)application.

I would suggest you to get a new passport ASAP first.

Your list of things some are not necessary
1) Police report of lost passport
2) SAR report (no need. Ho has all records)
3) Statutory Declaration (what’s this? Is this a cover letter? If so yes. I also put I am happy to provide bank statement for the period if they require but it was never required. In fact, ho request us not to submit bank statement apart from the most recent one which they asked for)
4) Print outs of all travel tickets (No need. Because it doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t mean you have taken the flights)
5) Photocopies of new and old passports (lost)
6) BRP of 5 years
7) Absence letter (yes v important)
8. Tenancy Agreements of last 5 years (no need. It Doesn’t mean you are there)
9) Council tax 5 years (no need. Doesn’t mean anything)
10) P60 forms of 5 years (Yes I included this too)

[gc362952246]

Also you need an absence list. My caseworker asked me for it while waiting

[jazzyjee]

Thank you for your your input and clarification. I have made police report and now waiting to get a new passport.

May i ask, what is the difference between Absence letter and absence list? Doesnt absence letter includes your list of absences?

Secondly, do you also show your absences from work for holidays within UK or just outside UK?

Thank you in advance, you input means alot

[Chamberpot92]

Also you need an absence list. My caseworker asked me for it while waiting

Hi,

So I've been looking frantically to see what they require, your list of evidence puts me at ease as it's the older passport which has been lost in the post in my wife's situation.

With the absence list - Did you literally create a cover letter with the time spent out of the UK? My wife is on a FLR M visa, and I understand that there isn't a time restriction within this visa, but I want to be sure that when they check her history for this period of time that they have no reservations.

So should she just create a list of all the time she left the country right and submit that as further evidence?

Thanks,
James

[CR001]

Also you need an absence list. My caseworker asked me for it while waiting

Hi,

So I've been looking frantically to see what they require, your list of evidence puts me at ease as it's the older passport which has been lost in the post in my wife's situation.

With the absence list - Did you literally create a cover letter with the time spent out of the UK? My wife is on a FLR M visa, and I understand that there isn't a time restriction within this visa, but I want to be sure that when they check her history for this period of time that they have no reservations.

So should she just create a list of all the time she left the country right and submit that as further evidence?

Thanks,
James

Your questions and FLR M visa route have absolutely no relation to this topic which is about tier 2 general. Different visa routes have completely different rules. It is not a generic one size fits all.

Please start your own topic with your questions.

[Chamberpot92]

Also you need an absence list. My caseworker asked me for it while waiting

Hi,

So I've been looking frantically to see what they require, your list of evidence puts me at ease as it's the older passport which has been lost in the post in my wife's situation.

With the absence list - Did you literally create a cover letter with the time spent out of the UK? My wife is on a FLR M visa, and I understand that there isn't a time restriction within this visa, but I want to be sure that when they check her history for this period of time that they have no reservations.

So should she just create a list of all the time she left the country right and submit that as further evidence?

Thanks,
James

Your questions and FLR M visa route have absolutely no relation to this topic which is about tier 2 general. Different visa routes have completely different rules. It is not a generic one size fits all.

Please start your own topic with your questions.

Sorry! I’ve started a new topic now.