believe me, Ho will accept any one as referee as long as they don't have any criminal past. For me one of my collegue signed it and he doesn't have any sort of professional stading apart from a job as receptionist

Couple of families in my locality recently applied for ILR and the HO rejected their application stating that they are eligble to apply only after the fifth anniversary of them getting the pin number from NHS. Here are some details of their case. 1.> All of them came to UK on a work permit 5 years ...

what will you gain from reporting this ? Sainthood from Vatican ? On the other hand the other guy and his family will have bright futute to look forward compared to the one he will have after deportation. This is a country which spent billions on war telling us that in 45 minutes Iraq is going use ...

Guys A quick question I do not want to take OCI and do not want to cancel my Indian passport. if I use my Indian passport only when I travel to India and rest I use my British passport is it possible ? does british govt. pass the infomations to indian govt. when an indian takes the british ...

You don't send your British Passport at the time of applying for OCI. You send it only when it is granted.

I didn't get any acknowledgement from the. For me it took 5 weeks. You don't need the ack. No to see the online status, you can use the online reg.no. You said it is a crap web site, but can you show me a website for any other country which will show the progress of the visa/passport application ...

ppron747 wrote:If you struggle through this page of the IND website you'll see the detailed considerations that caseworkers are supposed to give to such matters....

The link above is not working. Does anyone know the new link ?

165 X 4 is what you have to pay. With 2 kids you may be better off if you go for PIO card. PIO card for kids are cheaper.

Here is my staus Registration Status Granted On 13-OCT-2007 Photo/Signature Scanned On 26-SEP-2007 Documents Printing Status PRINTED Documents Printed On 16-OCT-2007 Documents Dispatched to Concerned Mission/Office on 19-OCT-2007 Documents Received at LONDON On 29-OCT-2007 Sent it on 24th-sept and ...

TBritish Embassy in India will not take your finger print if you have mehndi on hand. So girls keep your hand neat and tidy, some of the newly wed have to wait for couple of more weeks to enjoy the honemoon here.

Hi, I checked the HCI London website about applying for an OCI. One of the documents required is a Birth certificate. If I do not have my birth certificate - but do have my secondary school certificate indicating my birth date - will that suffice for the OCI or will it be rejected. Has anybody on ...

Docterror wrote:

Bizzare as it sounds any Priest can be a referee

If that was a response to my post, what I meant is that mosques do not have priests. They have imams or even sheiks. But priests... I think not.

All the same, middlemen

On page 24
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/6353/1 ... dance1.pdf

If you are living abroad and do not know a British citizen who is qualified to act as one of your referees, a Commonwealth citizen or citizen of the country in which you are residing may complete and sign the form, provided he/she has professional standing in that country, has known you for three ...

Sakura, read the guide again !!! and thanks Sakura for deleting your post And here is the proof. Page 24 of AN guide One referee should be a person of any nationality who has professional standing, such as a doctor, a minister of religion, civil servant or a member of a professional body, e.g ...

That is incorrect! BOTH referees absolutely have to be British citizens. I have an email from HO confirming that the referee (professional standing) can be of any citizenship residing in UK. I also know couple of guys who got their BC with non-british referees. Bizzare as it sounds any Priest can ...

Irish Citizen is good for passport application as per the passport office website. For BA the refree(the one with professional standing) can be of any nationality residing in UK. For example an Indian Doctor or a Priest in a mosque in UK are eligible for refree. I have a friend who used this way and ...

Dawie wrote: To be honest, I can't believe anyone would choose an Indian passport over a British passport if given the opportunity, no matter how patriotic you are.

There are many who thinks the other way
Lakshmi Mittal
Amartya Sen ....

I keep saying this b'cos my friend got caught by HO. The moment you take the oath you loose India Citizenship and your ILR become invalidated. So to leagally enter UK you need to apply for ROA and the moment the Indian immigration guys see ROA on your Indian passport they will send you to the guest ...

I got 3 passports certified by solicitor who dealt with my house buy. He didn't charge a penny.

We all love mother India. But if you travel on Tube every day then it is wise to take a season ticket.... make any sense ?

we have held of on the application. since my wife needs to travel, we will be using the indian passport for a month and then apply for the british passport towards the end of the year. have they returned your original travel document for you to travel? Do you know that your ILR is invalid once you ...

I am so impressed with the OCI application process and the way we can check the status of OCI application. I think Home office should have a look at this and provide something similar.

https://passport.gov.in/oci/OnlineOCIenquiry.jsp

There is no official announcement. But if you trawl thru the FAQs on hcilondon site you can see a query asked regarding this and the answer from HCI. The answer say they prefer 35X35 but not a must. I took this for granted and sent 35 X45 and got it. So I am guessing they finally realised that it is ...