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What does Passport mean? A passport is a state‑issued travel and identity document used in legal practice as reliable evidence of a person’s identity and nationality. In England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, British passports are issued by HM Passport Office under the Royal Prerogative; the term appears in legislation (for example, the Identity Documents Act 2010) but is not comprehensively defined. In Ireland, passports are regulated by the Passports Act 2008 and issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs. A passport evidences nationality; it does not itself confer nationality or immigration status. A British citizen’s passport is strong evidence of the...

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UK departure before biometrics: section 3C leave, invalidity risk

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section 3c leave

This answer proceeds on the basis that no request was submitted to the Home Office to cancel the application, nor to retrieve the passport prior to departing the UK. If someone makes an application from within the UK to extend their permission to stay before their existing leave runs out using the online route, the date on which the application is treated as lodged is the date the online form is submitted, not the enrolment of biometrics. When someone who already has leave to remain applies from inside the UK to extend it, their current leave, together with all attached conditions, continues automatically so long as a valid application is made before that leave expires (known as ‘section 3C leave’)...

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Nick Nason
Nick Nason

Nick is founder and principal lawyer at Edgewater Legal , a firm specialising in immigration solutions for individuals and small companies. Prior to this Nick was a solicitor and in-house advocate at Luqmani Thompson & Partners (2010-2015), and before this a volunteer at Bail for Immigration Detainees (2009-2010). In 2016, Nick took a sabbatical and spent time volunteering with the Refugee Legal Aid Program at St. Andrew's Refugee Services (StARS) in Cairo, assisting individuals making initial asylum applications to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Nick regularly writes about immigration law and policy issues for Free Movement , and was funded by the Strategic Legal Fund to provide an analysis of the legality of Operation Nexus , a collaboration between the police and immigration officials aimed at increasing the number of individuals deported from the UK....

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