However, as of today, I have not received an invitation, and when I called my solicitor on Friday a lady on the phone said they had been shut down by the regulating authority with immediate effect!
I know for a fact that the council has my certificate, but I've been told I can't attend a ceremony without the invitation. For all I know, the invitation is in some pile of paper at the solicitors who no longer exist or trade.
Another solicitor has been assigned to be the agent to take care of existing customers files, but they have just fobbed me off as I've tried to call them. As there's no money from me in it for them, they might take months to sort out papers, IF they even have them.
What do I do? Whom do I contact?
The e-mail addresses the UKBA have on previous letters are just auto-responders, and the further queries e-mail hasn't yielded a response. Further, it doesn't seem the UKBA publish any useful phone numbers anywhere visible for me to call.
..so close, yet at the last hurdle I seem to have gone into a bureaucratic black hole, all the while the clock to do the ceremony is ticking away.
