Hello

My US Passport is going to expire in a year and 3 months. It took so much effort to get my UK indefinte leave to remain stamp put in it in 2003. They rejected my postal application due to lost bits which I know were in the package. So I spent hours queue at the Home Office to get it done in person. Not a pleasant experience. No public convienences, except a pay as you pee outside the building, which if you were alone would mean losing your place in the queue.

I don't want to go there again for the convenience of having the UK leave stamp in my US passport.

So I plan to take the citizenship test which should be easy enough after I study the Handbook.   Once passed, then to apply for UK citizenship and finally a UK passport.

Here is the rub. Upon reading info on UK gov site, I find I have to make same type of application I did for leave to remain, send off the bits including my US passport which they tell me to be prepared to be parted from for 3 months.

I am afraid some numbnut in the Home Office is going to lose bits again. Maybe even my US passport. I will have to pay £600.00 for this and it is keeping me awake nights.

Just wondering has anyone else recently applied, succeeded and could you tell me how it went?