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John wrote: I shall let others comment upon whether your Indian passport remains valid after you are British. But you have already picked up on that point.
Using an indian passport when you are no longer a citizen amounts to a criminal act and misrepresentation of your nationality. It may not be checked but would anyone really want to take a chance in a post 9/11 world ?Indian passport is not longer valid once you take up any other country's citizenship.
It is however a grey area, as it is 'legally' not valid, but whether anybody checks it is a question!
I read the copy of the FORM AN again. It says - "3.3 If you are not married to a British citizen tell us in which country you intend to have your principal home if you are naturalised.'basis wrote:There is, however, a requirement by UK home office which u have agreed when applying for naturalisation i.e. to continue to make the UK as your home. Now if you have left so soon after applying and again just want to be here for passport purpose. I am not sure whether other members have picked upon this topic. If you already resident of another country it would be difficult to prove future intentions to stay.
You're suggesting that the OP carries out a criminal act. As soon as he naturalises his Indian passport is invalid and he cannot travel to India without a british passport.What you can do is, Take the naturalization and go back to India.
You cannot use Indian passport, the moment you take oath. So please dont do that - you dont want to celebrate your BC in jail that too Indian jail I hope.raikal wrote:Global,
What you can do is, Take the naturalization and go back to India.
1. Then apply for PIO card immediately. Mentioning that you are going to apply for British passport while in India.
2. Contact local British consulate in India for passport forms.
The form you get here in UK is different to the form you get in India.
You can even apply for the first passport from India.
If the Indian authorities insist that they need to see Brit passport then you do it first then PIO.
Good luck
raikal wrote:I know it is illegal...but people have got it in India like that before.
Before citizenship ceremony was introduced, the Naturalization certificates used come in the post. They used to redirect it to India.
Hence it was valid those days.
Now it may not but you can always argue that you dont have time to do that. If you have time , what lemses says should be right thing.
In fact the chances of the Indian government ever discovering that you have aquired another citizenship are pretty slim. Although technically illegal to use your Indian passport after the citizenship ceremony, there is not really any way that the Indian government will know about it.The whole point of the argument from 'basis' is that you cannot use an Indian passport for travel after the citizenship ceremony.
And something that will haunt you for the lifetime.....think a million times before doing these things. It is like trying to risk your life by breaking signals to avoid a wait of two second at traffic light and worrying whether you were caught on camera or not. Atleast the penalties are not that sever here but here you could ruin your entire career, life by committing a criminal offence so serious. Never break immigration rules and what more do u want - UK passport, lifetime PR of India u have got. Why cant u spare a few weeks in the UK and get the matters straight.mhunjn wrote: You cannot just argue that you don't have time... it's a very serious offence... and serious penalties, if caught.
In this particular instance they revoked the 1996 decision, rather than restored his citizenship. So he was deemed to have remained an Australian citizen all along.tt wrote: It was only in late 2005 (after having a stroke) that Seidler found out the news that he had therefore lost his Australian citizenship from that time (1985). The Australian government had made that decision in 1996 without his knowledge.
There was a great Australian icon, bereft of Australian citizenship. He held amongst the highest of national awards and honours.
When enough refugee advocates protested, the Australian government announced that it would restore Seidler's Australian citizenship immediately (late 2005).
But read the last bit of the http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ ... click=true article here.
Mr Seidler has been issued with Australian passports as recently as March 2000, sat on the roll of electors, and become a Companion to the Order of Australia - all of which require citizenship.