British Citizenship

[IainBusby]

Congratulations!!!! Can i ask if Louella bring Mary Grace straight away when she applied for settlement visa? as i have an 8 year old daughter and need to know if i can bring her with me to the uk when i applied for settlement ..tyvm!!

Mary Grace was 8 years old when Louella got her visa and came here but we left her in the Philippines for almost a year until Louella had settled in and got used to things over here. Also at the time we didn't want to complicate things with regard to Louella's visa so, although it meant, making, paying for and going through another visa application process, we decided to wait a while and bring her here later.

With regard to bringing your daughter to the UK, I would recommend that you apply for her visa at the same time as your own if possible because, although it may take longer to process the visa application, it's much easier than trying to make a separate visa application from here in the UK to the British Embassy in the Philippines.

I don't know the situation with regard to your daughters biological father and this is usually the area which can be problematic when it come to getting a visa for a minor. Is your daughters biological father named on her birth certificate? Does he have contact with her? Does he support her in any way? You have to be able to show that you have sole responsibility for the child or that the biological father, if he is in the picture, has no objection to you taking her to live overseas.

Iain.

[eula mackay]

congratulations!!! sounds like a pain free process!

[tiN]

Congratulations

[rainmaker]

Just received last monday my successful naturalization application. Have a oath taking this Feb. 10 a day before my birthday. Guess this is my present from the Queen.hihihihi Anyway, I have to apply for my british passport after the oath taking coz i off for a vacation in Pinas on March. Hope i receive my passport b4 i go.

[Arthur Little]

Belated Congratulations to Louella and Mary Grace, Iain. It's been a long, hard slog for the three of you, but thankfully that's all behind you now. My apologies for the delay in responding to this thread ... which I realise you'd initiated just before Christmas ... but when I first read it, you had been busy with the paraphernalia involved in applying for the British passports, and I thought I'd wait until those were issued.

So NOW - with everything finalised - "the world's your oyster", mate ... if you can still afford it!

[Arthur Little]

Just received last monday my successful naturalization application. Have a oath taking this Feb. 10 a day before my birthday. Guess this is my present from the Queen.hihihihi Anyway, I have to apply for my british passport after the oath taking coz i off for a vacation in Pinas on March. Hope i receive my passport b4 i go.

More good news ... Congratulations! I hope [contrary to what your pseudonymn implies ... !] the sun shines on your BIG day!

[rainmaker]

More good news ... Congratulations! I hope [contrary to what your pseudonymn implies ... !] the sun shines on your BIG day!

Thanks AL! im avid fan of john grisham, thats where i got my alias. Finger crossed, the sun shines on my big day. yeeepeeeyyy

[Mrs Daddy]

well done!

[aposhark]

.............Just to let you all know that my wife Louella and my step-daughter Mary Grace attended their British citizenship ceremony yesterday so are now British citizens. Iain

Hi Iain, must have missed this important news for your family as it was the Xmas rush.
Congratulations

[IainBusby]

Belated Congratulations to Louella and Mary Grace, Iain. It's been a long, hard slog for the three of you, but thankfully that's all behind you now. My apologies for the delay in responding to this thread ... which I realise you'd initiated just before Christmas ... but when I first read it, you had been busy with the paraphernalia involved in applying for the British passports, and I thought I'd wait until those were issued.

So NOW - with everything finalised - "the world's your oyster", mate ... if you can still afford it!

Thanks Arthur.

well done!

Thank's Wheela.

Hi Iain, must have missed this important news for your family as it was the Xmas rush.
Congratulations

Thank's Mike,
We did intend to use their new passports to go to Phils this year but even though Mary Grace's school attendance is 100% Louella doesn't want to take her out of school ouside of the normal holiday times and the air fares to Phils during the school summer break are very expensive (over 2K for the three of us), so we decided to holiday in Europe instead and we've booked up to go to Zante in August which cost just over 2K for 2 weeks all inclusive. At least we don't have to go to London and apply for Schengen visas now that they both have British passports.

Iain.

[Ann07]

Thank's Mike,
We did intend to use their new passports to go to Phils this year but even though Mary Grace's school attendance is 100% Louella doesn't want to take her out of school ouside of the normal holiday times and the air fares to Phils during the school summer break are very expensive (over 2K for the three of us), so we decided to holiday in Europe instead and we've booked up to go to Zante in August which cost just over 2K for 2 weeks all inclusive. At least we don't have to go to London and apply for Schengen visas now that they both have British passports.

Iain.[/QUOTE]

Wow! Goodluck to you Iain, Louella and Mary Grace

[mhynne]

I have just recieved by ILR and it came with a leaflet about having to have to stay in the UK for 2 years or else it can be revoked.
I was wondering if this is the same once you get the british citizenship? if i went back to manila and lived there for more than 2 years, can they take my citizenship back? Are there any other conditions you need to follow once you have recieved your british citizenship?

[joebloggs]

I have just recieved by ILR and it came with a leaflet about having to have to stay in the UK for 2 years or else it can be revoked.
I was wondering if this is the same once you get the british citizenship? if i went back to manila and lived there for more than 2 years, can they take my citizenship back? Are there any other conditions you need to follow once you have recieved your british citizenship?

your not allowed to be out of the uk more than 2yrs in one trip if you have ilr, if your a british citizen you can be out of the uk for as long as you want

[mhynne]

thanks joebloggs! =)