Originally posted by admin@Nov 3 2004, 11:12 PM
The wife had her Leave To Stay stamp from the immigration put in her new passport last year for free. Now in order to get citizenship she had to renew it again to ensure the middle name was the same.

They now charge about £150 for this and say they take upto 3 month, it was 3 weeks last year!!

As we need it to go on holiday to Singapore in January they told us we could have an interview in Liverpool on 30th Nov, and they charge £250 for this 'personal' service!! Getting as bad as the rip-off Filipino officials in this country.
I've just seen this post, though not too sure exactly what you mean. She had to renew her passport again, or her Indefinite Leave To remain?

My wife had her ILTR granted 2 1/2 years ago, and got her citizenship about six months ago, but has never had to have anything renewed. Her Filipino passport expired a week after we sent off for the citizenship too, which was a worry, as she was illegal immigrant for a while: no valid passport. Only took a week to get a new one, after we got it back from the UK Immigration serice.