This story reveals the shocking level of incompetence in UK Home Office handling cases of people who have lived, worked and contributed in the UK for decades.
“Home Office denies citizenship to ex-Ipswich mayor Inga Lockington”
PR rejections
A Dutch citizen’s tale about PR and naturalisation
Is it strange that I nearly burst into tears at the end of my passport interview?
After the unnerving first question “do you know why you’re here?”, I got through twenty minutes of fairly random questioning of my personal life, worried that I might be failing because I’m not very good at remembering my parents’ dates and places of birth (I know that’s odd, I just have a very bad memory). He wasn’t even listening to my answers because several times he asked me something which I had just told him as part of the previous answer.
Aga B.’s Story
I would like to share my story. I’m Aga from Poland, here in U.K. since 2007, living with my unmarried partner. We have an eight year old daughter. Since she was born I was able to work only part time as most of the time I was looking after her. I applied for Permanent Residency but I was refused.