Community and living

Croydon Council has introduced a document 'check and send' service to help you to complete your application for British citizenship. For a modest fee, we will copy and certify your original documents and send them to the Home Office by secure next-day delivery. 

We are in official partnership with the Home Office and our staff have been trained and registered with the Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner.

We can help you to:

• check that your application has been completed correctly
• ensure that all the required documents have been submitted
• check and provide certified copies of your supporting documents  
• send your application(s) to the Home Office by special delivery post.

If you would like to make an appointment or for more information contact the Nationality Checking Service (details below).

Citizenship checklist

Have you got the following:

• application form for each adult
• passport(s) covering the last five years or documentary evidence of your presence in this country (letters from employers, etc) for the whole of the qualifying period
• 'Knowledge of life in UK' certificate (Not required for any children under 18)
• 'indefinite leave to remain' or 'indefinite leave to enter' stamp for the last 12 months. (If you are married to a British citizen you only need to be free from immigration restrictions on the day you apply.)
• proof you were in the UK five years prior to the application
• to affirm that will you remain in the UK for the next five working days
• your marriage certificate/civil partnership schedule (if you are married or civil partners)
• cheque, postal order, credit or debit card for the Home Office fee (payable to the accounting officer, Home Office)
• cash or cheque, with cheque card, for Nationality Checking Service
• if the application includes children, their passport and full birth certificate (with translation if appropriate).

Please note: All adult applicants must attend the appointment.

                : Life in the uk / ESOL certificates are not required for any children under 18

How do I get a citizenship application form?

These can be obtained from the Croydon Register Office or the Home Office (details below).

'Check and send' fees

• individual application: £40
• husband and wife/civil partners at the same address: £55
• family application (two adults plus two children under the age of 18): £60 
• additional minors: £15.

Nationality Checking Service fees may be paid by cash, postal order or cheque payable to Croydon Council (cheque guarantee card required).

Please note: these fees are in addition to the normal fee payable to the Home Office for processing an application for nationality.

The application fee - Home Office

This fee may be paid by cheque or postal order payable to the accounting officer, Home Office, or by filling in the relevant credit/debit card details on the application form (to be given to checking officer at the interview).

• single adult - application form: £720
• husband and wife at same address and applying at the same time (marriage certificate required): £850
• naturalisation on the basis of marriage to a British citizen: £720
• one child under 18 (included in their parents' application): £460 and £50 for each additional child.
  

Contact Details

Contact name

Nationality Checking Service

Telephone

020 8726 6300

Email

register.office@croydon.gov.uk

Address

Croydon Register Office,
Mint Walk,
Croydon,
CR0 1EA

Opening times
Monday - Friday 9.30am to 4.00pm

Contact name

Home Office (Immigration Directorate)

Telephone

0870 606 7766

Address

Apollo House
Block C, Whitgift Centre
36 Wellesley Road
Croydon CR9 3RR

Website

www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk