After your citizenship ceremony

[zgokool]

Once you’ve got your certificate of British citizenship, you must send your biometric residence permit back to the Home Office.
Send it back within 5 days of either:
going to your citizenship ceremony
getting your certificate of British citizenship

Hi there, I hope someone can help me with this problem am facing. I was unaware of the fact that I need to return my biometric withing 5 working days. I am travelling to Mauritius on the 19th of November with my whole family (they hold British passport already) and coming back around mid december. How would I be able to enter the uk without my biometric card and I am aware that applying for 'the right to abode' would take too much time.

would I have to cancel my holidays?

any help would be beneficial

[Casa]

You will be at high risk as your BRP will be void once you've attended your ceremony, in the same way that a bank card can be cancelled by the issuer.

The airline won't permit you to board without the relevant confirmation of your right to re-enter the UK, even if UK Border Control accept your British citizenship certificate.

I haven't seen any reports on the forum of the £1,000 fine being implemented, but that's not to say it hasn't happened yet, or when it will.

[ohara]

Mauritian citizens can enter the UK visa free as visitors...could OP just wing it and travel with Mauritius passport? Then at the UK border he can present himself as a British citizen with naturalisation certificate, have a minor interrogation, and eventually be let in as a citizen?

[Casa]

Yes indeed they could.