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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 14th 2026, 3:04 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 4,776
Posted By pallykin

Re: Possible Change in Interpretation of 4L by Home Office?

It’s true that 4L doesn’t correct all examples of historical unfairness. One example never addressed that I assume will remain unaddressed is the status of descendants of men born in British...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 4th 2026, 8:04 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 860
Posted By pallykin

Re: Claim under 4L - necessary documentation?

Did your great grandmother marry your
grandmother’s father or someone else?

My mother-in-law was born in England in 1930 to a 15 year old mother when the minimum age to marry was 16. The next...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 23rd 2026, 4:18 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Is it true he did not become a CUKC in 1949?
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 21st 2026, 7:02 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Is the paragraph about my great grandfather correct?
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 21st 2026, 3:12 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Unfortunately, I received an email today, 21 January, from Home Atlas telling me that my application was refused. Application was received 6 Nov 2025; today is day 77. Biometrics 29 Dec 2025.

My...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 5th 2026, 3:55 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

Doesn’t living in the UK for 3+ years prior to age 18 and prior to 1983 provide right of abode as an alternative?

Or is this too many generations out?
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 4th 2026, 4:46 am
Replies: 2
Views: 619
Posted By pallykin

Re: ARD (section 4L) application — No Biometrics Invite

Did your application get assessed/approved? What ended up happening with it?
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 4th 2026, 3:55 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

I’m curious if her birth in 1840 is specifically governed by a particular nationality law.

How many generations out can a Section 4L go and be accepted if the applicant lived in the UK for 3? or...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Dec 18th 2025, 1:12 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

She was born in 1840. I was able to find the ships manifest of her and her sister traveling to New York City in 1850 many years ago but then I was unable to find it again, but she is in US and New...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Dec 1st 2025, 10:38 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

No, he was not. He was one in a long line of men who served in British Army in India.

Great great great grandfather born 1799 London
Great great grandfather born 1840 British India
Great...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 30th 2025, 3:39 am
Replies: 3
Views: 900
Posted By pallykin

Re: Please check my wording 4L ARD

This is what I did. I filled out the form using Adobe Acrobat so it was easily readable. Then I put the longer version in a separate letter which referenced in the condensed version on the...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 28th 2025, 12:40 am
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

That is a shame… I had my hopes up. The biometric enrolment letter says “Thank you for your application. All supporting evidence you have supplied has been uploaded to our case working system....
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 27th 2025, 3:15 pm
Replies: 502
Views: 170,294
Posted By pallykin

Re: British Citizenship by Discretion (CBR post 1982)

I’m curious, does this mean that the application has already been assessed? And that they are waiting for the biometrics to confirm the applicant’s identity? This seems so efficient…

I ask...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 26th 2025, 5:29 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By pallykin

Re: Section 4L application timeline?

Documents received today, 26 November 2025, almost three weeks from the date the application wasreceived in Liverpool. I’m wondering if this new process is aligned with the switch to VFS… and if...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 22nd 2025, 4:15 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By pallykin

Re: Section 4L application timeline?

Hello BritInParis or anyone else with knowledge about this,

Do you have any insight into how long it’s possible to delay a citizenship ceremony at a US consulate before it becomes a problem?...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 22nd 2025, 3:53 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By pallykin

Re: Section 4L application timeline?

Answers to some of my questions…

They do scan the application or “enter it in the caseworker system”, which has already happened for my application.

From the biometric enrolment letter:
...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 20th 2025, 3:01 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By pallykin

Re: Section 4L application timeline?

Exciting update! I received my biometric enrolment letter today! It’s dated 13 November 2025, and it states that I have 120 days to enrol my biometrics. (Today is 20 November 2025, so it’s a week...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 18th 2025, 7:59 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By pallykin

Re: Section 4L application timeline?

Thank you BritinParis!

That sequence is quite different than the UKM process I experienced in 2023. Applied late March, biometrics 1 June, and the caseworker looked at my application in early...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 18th 2025, 5:02 am
Replies: 40
Views: 10,403
Posted By pallykin

Re: CUKC or British Subject without Citizenship?

Thank you for the detailed answer. My grandfather would have been stateless from 1949 until he naturalised as a US citizen in 1955. I have a scan of the record of his naturalisation. I will look into...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 18th 2025, 4:48 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By pallykin

Re: Section 4L application timeline?

I was very surprised to discover when checking my credit card statement that I was charged the citizenship ceremony fee the day after my application was received in Liverpool… They even gave me a...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 17th 2025, 3:26 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,904
Posted By pallykin

Section 4L application timeline?

My section 4L application was received in Liverpool 12 days ago, and from what I can gather from reading about other people’s experiences, it seems my card should see a charge for the ceremony fee...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 22nd 2025, 4:06 am
Replies: 40
Views: 10,403
Posted By pallykin

Re: CUKC or British Subject without Citizenship?

It turns out that a British India born child of a British Army officer would have been a British subject at birth and in 1949 would have become a British Subject without Citizenship in 1949. To...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 27th 2024, 12:13 pm
Replies: 40
Views: 10,403
Posted By pallykin

Re: CUKC or British Subject without Citizenship?

somebody, how did your citizenship application go? Or are you still waiting?
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Dec 30th 2023, 8:58 am
Replies: 40
Views: 10,403
Posted By pallykin

Re: CUKC or British Subject without Citizenship?

Having been refused once, I’m looking for that glimmer of hope that suggests it’s worth trying again…
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