ILR Long residence with old passport scans, no originals
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:02 pm
Hiya,
I am about to apply for ILR (10 years), the absence numbers are all fine, everything seems fine...
BUT - due running out of pages I had to renew my passport twice during those 10 years and as part of having the passports renewed in my country the old ones are destroyed, so consequently I do not have originals to present for the old passports, only the current one.
Just to confirm, I have a scanned versions of every page for those old passports with old visas and all the stamps, so I CAN provide those and the dates can be easily counted out from the scans. I am just worried that HO will look for any little reason to delay or reject the application and the reason might be that I did not provide the originals of all of my passports held in last 10 years.
Has anybody been in a similar situation? Did you have to provide anything additional to strengthen the case?
Thank you very much in advance!
M
I am about to apply for ILR (10 years), the absence numbers are all fine, everything seems fine...
BUT - due running out of pages I had to renew my passport twice during those 10 years and as part of having the passports renewed in my country the old ones are destroyed, so consequently I do not have originals to present for the old passports, only the current one.
Just to confirm, I have a scanned versions of every page for those old passports with old visas and all the stamps, so I CAN provide those and the dates can be easily counted out from the scans. I am just worried that HO will look for any little reason to delay or reject the application and the reason might be that I did not provide the originals of all of my passports held in last 10 years.
Has anybody been in a similar situation? Did you have to provide anything additional to strengthen the case?
Thank you very much in advance!
M