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28th July 2016 #31
These are the printed pages from my son's application with supporting documents. I don't see cenomar as required.
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31st July 2016 #32
we have sent an email to the email add graham provided, we also have contacted our mp through email and narrated what has happened. i have also filed a complaint on to their fill up form in their website.
i wont be giving up, i will make sure that someone will pay for misgandling my sons passport application. the stress we have received from them was unbelievable plus the examineer was not very helpful.
you are right steve, i even told the lady I spoke to that wednesday afternoon that if its new rules why the document hasnt come up on the list of requirements needed after we filled up the form? because in the first place why would i delay my sons application by not providing the documents needed? she couldnt answer.
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31st July 2016 #33
nor do i. i sent rayna a photo of the letter i received from them and rayna straight away said that they think my application is an overseas application.
i even asked them what is it got to do with my sons application as the time i gave birth to my son i am lawfully married to my husband paul and i gave birth here in the uk. still the examineer insisted that cenomar mustve been provided. after i requested to speak to her manager she then came up of a solution about the visa i was holding when i gave birth to ethan, she said if its ilr then no need for cenomar if its not ilr then cenomar needs to be submitted. they aint got a clue of how visa system works in this country.
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31st July 2016 #34
Still think you should follow up the email to your MP with a call or personal appearance at one of his/her surgeries as it sounds to me like time is important. MP's get lots of emails and you don't want yours hastily read and to receive a reply saying he has just forwarded your query to the relevant office.
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31st July 2016 #35
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31st July 2016 #36
Novie, please keep us all updated, it sounds like a real mess from HMPO and they are wholly to blame for the situation and stress. Make sure in any communications you use the word STRESS as often as you can.
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1st August 2016 #37
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1st August 2016 #38
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1st August 2016 #39
just rang to arrange an appointment but our MP is on holiday! typical.
anyway the lady i spoke to said shes going to ring the london office now to see if anybody is around to help me and will ask them to ring me back asap. thats a start eh?
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1st August 2016 #40
Keep on top of them, don't give them any slack
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1st August 2016 #41
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1st August 2016 #42
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1st August 2016 #43
ddint think that we have to, all the post office can do is check the documents that is on the documents list, photo and thats it.
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1st August 2016 #44
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1st August 2016 #45
- Join Date
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But on the correct form ?
Also, a big difference in fee for UK resident application and 'Overseas'.
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1st August 2016 #46
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1st August 2016 #47
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It IS confusing Novie.
The whole damned website is confusing (and I'm an ex-civil servant, and reasonably intelligent).
Overseas applications are taking up to a year or more, incidentally. Every Phils document is checked and re-checked for authenticity... shuffled back and forth between Liverpool and Manila (or wherever... but overseas).
I don't understand all this interest they've taken in you, as the child was born in the UK , with a British dad ?
Certainly when I/we applied for my first son's passport (also born in UK to Filipina mother)... it was a normal standard application, I'm pretty sure, though it's 20 + years ago now.
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1st August 2016 #48
You see this is where our country really sucks. You try to do everything to the letter, pay the full amount and then they screw you. You try to contact the right people who then fob you off as they can't be bothered and this is all called 'service and efficiency'
You know, in the Philippines, you want to get things done, you can pay a small sum under the table to get to the top of the list.
I am fed up with so much here.If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
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1st August 2016 #49
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We are all paying for the dishonesty of others, unfortunately (and you can bet your bottom dollar that those trying to fiddle the British system were/are not 'native' Brits at all ).
Sham marriages, fake passports driving licences, birth certs and other documents produced in 'fraud factories' in Lahore, Lagos and Luton.
I can tell you that my own brother was tasked with sacking a certain Pakistani official working in one of our overseas visa sections, who had been SELLING visas.
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4th August 2016 #50
i know, it is disappointing and i am disheartened by the treatment we are getting. i rang today again no update still but the lady i spoke to said she will message bangkok to see if they have replied the my sons examineer (which is on holiday) and ask them to forward to her so she can do my sons passport.
my mp is on holiday as well, the lady said someone will ring me but nothing since i gave the office a call to arrange an appointment.
just facing brick wall now. so stressful this, more stressful than applying a visa i think.
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6th August 2016 #51
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6th August 2016 #54
I guess it's the new system, online as opposed to the old system. Both my other two children got their passports by us taking their documents to the British Embassy in Manila where they checked it all and sent it off to HongKong. Now everything is processed back in the UK, and you have to specify if you are applying from inside or outside the UK.
Quite obviously Novie's case has been mishandled and why they have said about sending documents to Bangkok to review is beyond me. It has nothing to do with Thailand. Clearly a cenomar is not required plus it was an application made from the UK. They really have messed up.
I hope our application goes ok, and yours Graham. I know there will be fireworks if we have problems.If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
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6th August 2016 #55
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Yes, fingers firmly crossed here Steve.
I'll give them a while yet before asking for my passport back.
Really I'd like to be in the Phils for Xmas/New Year.
(I just applied online today for various birth, marriage and death certificates, so that I can claim my Irish citizenship).
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7th August 2016 #56
With all the problems we have had with Brit passports earlier this year looks like I may have to return next year to Britain to apply from there.. Not happy.
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7th August 2016 #57
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7th August 2016 #59
As a side note. My wife has received the pack of documents and form I sent for our son's application. She has got our neighbour to witness and sign the photo. We have all the documents they require on the form. BUT, this morning when talking to my wife, I mentioned the problems you are having Novie, so I have told her to include her cenomar with the supporting documents too. Just a precaution really. I do not want anything to hold up the application, so covering all bases now. Fingers crossed.
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7th August 2016 #60
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