Application and Referees

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Kindly advise; I have just attained settled status. I am currently in the process of applying for citizenship registration for my less then year old baby, born in UK, while I was still on skilled worker visa.

Question 1: Is it mandatory for, at least, one referee to have known the baby in professional capacity? Can I not just provide a reference of a lecturer that I know of myself; they know the baby well, but of course not in a professional capacity. I am asking this question because the baby's health professionals are taking a lot of time (up to 2 months) to release the information for reference. I assume its because the application requires quite a lot of personal information of the referees, including home address and passport number.

Question 2: the online MN1 form requires at least 3 years of home address, but the baby is few months old. It doesn't let me continue, unless I enter that he has lived at present address for three years or otherwise enter a previous address, hence, for now, I have entered the hospital in which the baby was born as the last address, so that it lets me complete the application. In the previous address section, I have written "born in this hospital, only xyz months old". Is this a right approach?

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Kindly advise; I have just attained settled status. I am currently in the process of applying for citizenship registration for my less then year old baby, born in UK, while I was still on skilled worker visa.

Question 1: Is it mandatory for, at least, one referee to have known the baby in professional capacity? Can I not just provide a reference of a lecturer that I know of myself; they know the baby well, but of course not in a professional capacity. I am asking this question because the baby's health professionals are taking a lot of time (up to 2 months) to release the information for reference. I assume its because the application requires quite a lot of personal information of the referees, including home address and passport number. This is a well known issue to UKVi. you can use your friend who is a lecturer

Question 2: the online MN1 form requires at least 3 years of home address, but the baby is few months old. It doesn't let me continue, unless I enter that he has lived at present address for three years or otherwise enter a previous address, hence, for now, I have entered the hospital in which the baby was born as the last address, so that it lets me complete the application. In the previous address section, I have written "born in this hospital, only xyz months old". Is this a right approach? Input your own address(es) for the last 3 years and then explain your child has only lived at the last one as they are only a few months old.

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Thank you