§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will investigate the reasons why letters sent by Dunham Brindley and Linn, Solicitors, of 16 Bore Street, Lichfield, requesting an oath of allegiance to be signed by Mr. A. Noor of 81 Scotch Orchard, Lichfield, on 3 April, 23 April and 22 May 1981 remained unanswered by the Immigration and Nationality Department at Lunar House, Wellesley Road, Croydon; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Mr. RaisonMrs. Noor's application for registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies was approved on 4 March. Her solicitors were informed of this on the same day and Mrs. Noor was asked through them to pay the appropriate fee. The fee was received on 8 April. The next step should have been to send her the form on which she could take the oath of allegiance. However, before the fee was received the papers had been sent to Birmingham in connection with an appeal concerning the entry of Mr. Nesar Ahmed as Mr. Noor's son. We are sorry that as a result the oath form was inadvertently not sent and the solicitors received no replies to their letters.
The appropriate form has now been sent to the solicitors. Mrs. Noor's certificate of registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies will be sent to her as soon as she has taken the oath and returned the form to the nationality division.