Police Registration Certificate for Application of Schengen Visa

Posted date: 31 Oct 2020

The United Kingdom extends the police registration provision to citizens of many countries who wish to receive a visa from the United Kingdom to visit the island nation and intend to stay for longer periods (six months or longer). The citizens of these countries must appear with the requisite paperwork at the nearest police station within 7 days of their arrival in the United Kingdom, if they have applied from their home country. Else if the traveler applied for a longer stay from inside the United Kingdom and received a police identity certificate as soon as the biometric residency permit had been given.

When you are applying for a UK visa, the Police Identification certificate is one of the key requirements. We will go through the information about this certificate in this post, who wants it, how to get it and more important information.

You have to search the visa sticker on your passport if you have applied from outside the UK. If it says 'Police registration' or 'in 7 days of entry,' register with the police,' so you obviously have to register. On the other hand, if you are already in the United Kingdom and have applied for an extension of your stay there, you can review the letter that you have got from the Home Office after your application has been accepted. If you are supposed to register, then this letter would indicate that.

You will be asked to register at the police station in the area where you live. You must first contact the nearest police station to find out which police station you should register with. Contact the nearest police station if you live in the City.

You must go to the police station of the place where you will remain in the UK during your time and register within seven days of arrival in the United Kingdom, or within 7 days of gaining permission to stay there for more than 6 months. On the day of your interview, you can appoint an interview, and turn up at the police station during which a police officer will ask you some basic questions. In order to register and send those documents that the competent authorities will require you to include, you will have to pay a fee of £34, such as 2 recent equivalent photos in compliance with IOCA requirements, your passport, biometric residency permit, if you have one and if you have applied outside the UK, you must have a visa sticker on your passport. If you forget or you do not file with the police for another occasion, you will face significant penalties because it is considered a criminal offence. For failure to comply with the terms of your leave to enter / remain in the United Kingdom, you may be reported to the Home Office. Your permission to remain will then be shortened and you would have to leave the UK.

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