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I want to share my experience getting my fisrt passport after naturalisation. It went relatively smoothly, except for a glitch: I already have two citizenships (british is my third); as documents, they asked for the passport that I used to enter the UK (that of one of my citizenship countries), which I provided. They came back to me asking for the ID card (or copy thereof) of my other citizenship country, which I then had to send and caused delays.

I received the passport one day after it being printed. I am still expecting the return of my application documents.

Besides that, all good, although it is a bit stressful to have no passport, no naturalisation certificate, etc. for a bit, and one has to pray that nothing serious happens in the family back home, since any sort of travel is out of question.

Here is a word of caution for triple nationals.

I recently naturalised and applied for a passport right after. I already have two nationalities: that of my parents, and that of the country where I am born. This latter one is the relevant nationality for me, and all my travel documents are from my birth country, not my parent's country.

Of course, I declared both nationalities for my naturalisation and my passport application.

The application was however very clear:

Applicant’s documents

Send the following:

• naturalisation or registration certificate
• the passport used to enter the UK
• any current or expired passports from other countries that haven’t been cancelled

I therefore sent my passport from my birth country since I don't have one of my parent's country.

Today I received an email that they need a copy of the ID card of my parent's country.

Luckily, I do have an ID card, but I could just as well not have one as this is not a mandatory document.

So word of caution: if you are triple national, make sure you have a passport or ID card of all the countries you have citizenship of, not only the passport that allowed you in the UK in the first place.

If I didn't already have that ID card, I don't know how I could be going forward. Travelling to my parent's country to get one, without having a UK passport first, would basically prevent me from going back home to the UK...