British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
Aug 7th 2019, 8:40 am
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
Hoping you could answer some questions for me if possible:
1) How long did it take before you received any confirmation from the Home Office that your (posted) paperwork /documents had been received? I paid the UKM online fee and submitted online (27 May 2019), and then couriered all the documents 3 June 2019. I am a bit concerned as I have not received a single bit of correspondence (or confirmation of posted document receipt), other than an email i received on the date of payment saying that the online application had been received.
2) RSA Home affairs dual citizenship notification, once you submit the form to home affairs - how do they send you notification that your request has been approved? Is this something they post or do they give you some sort of receipt at home affairs?
Thanks for your help
Aug 8th 2019, 6:16 pm
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
Hi RosalindJane (or anyone else that may be able to help),
Hoping you could answer some questions for me if possible:
1) How long did it take before you received any confirmation from the Home Office that your (posted) paperwork /documents had been received? I paid the UKM online fee and submitted online (27 May 2019), and then couriered all the documents 3 June 2019. I am a bit concerned as I have not received a single bit of correspondence (or confirmation of posted document receipt), other than an email i received on the date of payment saying that the online application had been received.
2) RSA Home affairs dual citizenship notification, once you submit the form to home affairs - how do they send you notification that your request has been approved? Is this something they post or do they give you some sort of receipt at home affairs?
Thanks for your help
Hoping you could answer some questions for me if possible:
1) How long did it take before you received any confirmation from the Home Office that your (posted) paperwork /documents had been received? I paid the UKM online fee and submitted online (27 May 2019), and then couriered all the documents 3 June 2019. I am a bit concerned as I have not received a single bit of correspondence (or confirmation of posted document receipt), other than an email i received on the date of payment saying that the online application had been received.
2) RSA Home affairs dual citizenship notification, once you submit the form to home affairs - how do they send you notification that your request has been approved? Is this something they post or do they give you some sort of receipt at home affairs?
Thanks for your help
i received an automated email from UKVI a day or two after I submitted, followed by a request for biometrics. After that, nothing until I got an approval letter 2 months later. Our processes all seem to differ. On another forum there were one or two people who hadn’t heard anything about their biometrics and they contacted this email address. [email protected].
I don’t know if it would work out for you, but why not try? Good luck.
you need to get your retention I’d SA citizenship before you attend your British citizenship ceremony. So plenty of time but you should follow up with them. Some people get theirs within a week, I had to visit the DoHA several times. Applied in March and received it in June.
hope that helps
Aug 8th 2019, 6:22 pm
#94
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
Hi RosalindJane (or anyone else that may be able to help),
Hoping you could answer some questions for me if possible:
1) How long did it take before you received any confirmation from the Home Office that your (posted) paperwork /documents had been received? I paid the UKM online fee and submitted online (27 May 2019), and then couriered all the documents 3 June 2019. I am a bit concerned as I have not received a single bit of correspondence (or confirmation of posted document receipt), other than an email i received on the date of payment saying that the online application had been received.
2) RSA Home affairs dual citizenship notification, once you submit the form to home affairs - how do they send you notification that your request has been approved? Is this something they post or do they give you some sort of receipt at home affairs?
Thanks for your help
Hoping you could answer some questions for me if possible:
1) How long did it take before you received any confirmation from the Home Office that your (posted) paperwork /documents had been received? I paid the UKM online fee and submitted online (27 May 2019), and then couriered all the documents 3 June 2019. I am a bit concerned as I have not received a single bit of correspondence (or confirmation of posted document receipt), other than an email i received on the date of payment saying that the online application had been received.
2) RSA Home affairs dual citizenship notification, once you submit the form to home affairs - how do they send you notification that your request has been approved? Is this something they post or do they give you some sort of receipt at home affairs?
Thanks for your help
Aug 10th 2019, 5:09 pm
#95
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
Morning,
I am currently investigating the process and documents required to submit an application to register for British Citizenship via “double descent”, using the UKM form.
It seems that before one even fills in this form, one has several tasks to complete:
1. Make an appointment with the British Consulate:
Is this to obtain a Letter / Certificate on Non-Acquisition from the UK Home Office (confirming that you have not yet acquired British nationality) or is it a letter confirming that the British government has no objection to dual nationality?
2. South African Home Affairs:
Take this letter to the Home Affairs and submit an application to retain ones South African Citizenship.
Only on receipt of this approval letter from Home Affairs, can one fill in the UKM form and submit with the various supporting documents to the British Consulate.
Out of interest, have any South Africans submitted this UKM application themselves, as opposed to going through the various agencies?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
I am currently investigating the process and documents required to submit an application to register for British Citizenship via “double descent”, using the UKM form.
It seems that before one even fills in this form, one has several tasks to complete:
1. Make an appointment with the British Consulate:
Is this to obtain a Letter / Certificate on Non-Acquisition from the UK Home Office (confirming that you have not yet acquired British nationality) or is it a letter confirming that the British government has no objection to dual nationality?
2. South African Home Affairs:
Take this letter to the Home Affairs and submit an application to retain ones South African Citizenship.
Only on receipt of this approval letter from Home Affairs, can one fill in the UKM form and submit with the various supporting documents to the British Consulate.
Out of interest, have any South Africans submitted this UKM application themselves, as opposed to going through the various agencies?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Sorry - I was doing some further research and found the application form NQ on the GOV.UK website.
Does anyone know if this needs to be completed for the application to the South African Home Affairs - when applying to retain ones South African Citizenship - and if it is required, is it a separate online application?
(not done through the appointment made at the British Consulate)
Does anyone know if this needs to be completed for the application to the South African Home Affairs - when applying to retain ones South African Citizenship - and if it is required, is it a separate online application?
(not done through the appointment made at the British Consulate)
Aug 15th 2019, 7:42 am
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Aug 20th 2019, 1:03 pm
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
Thanks I have sent a mail to this address [email protected].
Will let you know how it goes.
Will let you know how it goes.
Aug 20th 2019, 1:06 pm
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Sep 14th 2019, 12:37 pm
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
Both my grandmothers were British and married South African men. My mother was born to her British mother in South Africa in 1947 and my father to his British mother in 1954. I was born in 1977 to my parents. Would I possibly qualify for British citizenship via double descent?
Sep 14th 2019, 10:32 pm
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
hi there
Both my grandmothers were British and married South African men. My mother was born to her British mother in South Africa in 1947 and my father to his British mother in 1954. I was born in 1977 to my parents. Would I possibly qualify for British citizenship via double descent?
Both my grandmothers were British and married South African men. My mother was born to her British mother in South Africa in 1947 and my father to his British mother in 1954. I was born in 1977 to my parents. Would I possibly qualify for British citizenship via double descent?
Sep 15th 2019, 10:40 pm
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Sep 16th 2019, 4:38 am
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Re: British citizenship by double descent - Do I qualify?
yes he is planning on trying he’s dealing through immigration consultants in the U.K.
1. Do you think he might have a chance of success?
2. Do you think I should wait for him or carry on with my own application?
1. Do you think he might have a chance of success?
2. Do you think I should wait for him or carry on with my own application?