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Thank you for the thorough reply, having a bit of a nightmare with this and appreciate the help. To be fair to the UK Gov the help line and webchat service is very efficient and I`m going back and forth with them. I did register my son`s birth at the British Consulate in Osaka at Birth but as you sa...

For the birth certificate I sent the Koseki Tohon and also Hospital birth certificate. showing both the child’s and parents’ details I sent the Koseki Tohon as I presumed this was the "Family registration form" from the below info I found somewhere deep on the UK Gov site. Maybe this wasn`...

in the process of applying for my son`s UK passport and in addition to the usual documents I sent I have now been asked to supply these documents as well. -school records -medical records -mother's antenatal records They must have us on a terror watch list or something as all my mates applications d...

Just wanted to add my experience. About 6 months ago I successfully applied to pay Class 2 voluntary contributions. Many thanks to all the advice and info here. I also applied to back pay the last 16 years of contributions but was waiting for the yen to improve before I transferred from Japan (Yeah ...