All types of citizenships in the UK had almost no chance for appeal. Basically the UK Border agency made clear that for them to reconsider an application a letter needed to be set to them in order to review. Sounds simple but there were some tricks to it.
The rejection came in the form of an official UK Border Agency letter stating the reasons why your application was denied. Of course non of this impacted in your permanent residency status. It only impacted in your tax per year and your civil rights since you are not a citizen. For the appeal process you needed to send a letter to the UK B. Agency explaining why you where in disagreement with the decision based on their own letter. If there was a paper missing or a miss interpretation you had to send the copy of the originals with the letter for them to be reviewed. It the best of cases you could have an interview with an administrative to walk through your lodge and finally clarify the situation.
From September 1st 2010 this same process will have a FEE applied to it. By the price of £100 you will be able to appeal your citizenship application. That is only to start the process at the Border Agencies. They will review the paperwork you submitted and take a decision based on your dispute. If you are unlucky and the Agency rejects the application again you won’t be refunded a penny, UK needs to cover the administrative expenses of reviewing your lodge.
If you are indeed lucky you will be refunded £20 since the remaining £80 will be used for the ceremony expenses. Oh!, you thought you paid for that when you submitted the lodge in the first place? Well we understand your mistake; the fact that we at the UK Border Agency made a mistake and rejected the lodge in the first place so you had to appeal and pay an extra fee of £100 to finally be reimbursed 20 for a citizenship ceremony you already paid for is just a small detail in your mind. Don’t pay attention to it.
And don’t even remember the fact that you paid for the Like in the UK booklet and later to sit for the test, careful as many times as you needed to reach the passing score.
What are you going to do next with your rightfully reimbursed £20? A Guinness?
5 responses so far ↓
1 Den // Jul 21, 2010 at 7:58 am
How ridiculous a fee could be please!!!!! What are we supposed to do with a twenty bill???? Jump the cliff
2 ManuLeit // Jul 21, 2010 at 10:00 am
Well another funny story to make immigrants pay more money!
3 Yanin // Jul 21, 2010 at 1:47 pm
In away I kinda understand why they are doing it but don’t really see the point in the reimbursement breakdown. That seems little foggy.
I went to the UK Border agency and states the same. The 80 are for the future ceremony charges.
4 ramTras // Jul 21, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Agreed with the writer, aren’t we paying for the ceremony in the initial application? why am I paying for it again?
5 parate // Aug 4, 2010 at 9:44 am
eveything in the UK is paying paying paying. is this going to stop, ever?
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