A question for all of the British / English

[aussiewench 9]

Im going to be a pain here lol

The United Kingdom is made up of various countries. If one lives in Ireland, they would put Ireland not United Kingdom. Why would that be any different for England?

Actually, technically, the UK is one country or sovereign state, made up of territories (Falkland Islands), crown possessions (Channel Islands) and nations (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland - though these can sometimes be called 'constituent countries'). These are not countries in their own right per se because they do not offer their populations citizenship (ie. passports) in their own right. The correct short name for the country is the United Kingdom as it is officially 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.

Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. Strangely, a person who is from the UK has a British nationality or citizenship. I guess in the same way that someone from the US is American...

The reason some people put 'Ireland' is that they're from the Republic of Ireland (or Southern Ireland) - which is a different country entirely from the UK. In fact, if you suggested to an Irish person that their country was the UK, they might get very mad about it.

However, because of common usage, you can put UK, GB or England/Scotland/Wales/NI and people will know what you mean.

Of course, my only experience is of putting the UK down for my visa application, so I can't advise on doing anything else and knowing whether it's successful or not. It probably will be as others have testified. Personally, I managed to get 'UNITED KINGDOM' into that little box, but I had to try quite hard.

Sorry, I'll get my coat...

hahahahaha nah you dont have to leave. Thanks for the explaination as it helped me to understand

[bebop + rocksteady 0]

Wow, my fiance and I are both North American folks, and this was certainly an interesting little geography lesson! I feel smarter already.

Cass (bebop the great)

[adins 0]

Hi there,

this post might be a little late...but James is from London and in our petition, we stated he was born in England. Our visa was approved

[rebeccajo 14]

I guess you have a point, Wenchie, except that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom while Ireland is just Ireland. I'm sure those from N. Ireland (becca!) put N. Ireland on their I 129Fs instead of United Kingdom.

I just thought UK because when I pull up the site for the London consulate, it says London, UK.

Doesn't make it 'right', technically, but there you go.

Don't know how this thread got resurrected but since it did....

We put "UK/N. Ireland" in the little boxes.

...... The correct short name for the country is the United Kingdom as it is officially 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.....

......The reason some people put 'Ireland' is that they're from the Republic of Ireland (or Southern Ireland) - which is a different country entirely from the UK. In fact, if you suggested to an Irish person that their country was the UK, they might get very mad about it......

True that on the correct name.

And....some people from Northern Ireland might not like to be referred to as Irish.....

*signing off as 'wife of ulsterman'*

[Kez/JWolf 6]

I put SCOTLAND.........

"You can take Kezzie out of Scotland but you cant take Scotland out of Kezzie"......

Kezzie

[Widge 0]

England and approved !

To me the question was what country and England IS my country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England#Brief...m_.22England.22

[BeverleyFL 0]

When I initially went for my biometrics for AOS I put "United Kingdom" - they checked my passport and wrote in front of United Kingdom "ENG".

[rebeccajo 14]

Tee hee.......I just love you Brits. You all crack me up! Geographically you hail from a little ball of mud out in the Atlantic that is further divided into wee countries, and you are each so darn proud of them! I think it's grand!!! (Don't EVEN get me started about how small Northern Ireland is - hahahaha!) Does that wonderful pride come from having been the empire that the sun never sank on?

Gosh I love the UK. Mebbe I should go live there, eh?

[TracyTN 237]

Me too, becca!

[m_olask 0]

i put my adresses down as london, england and my citizenship as united kingdom as thats what i put on my i-94w

[Itsmeitsmeitsree! 0]

We put England on every tiny bit we ever had to for every application of his thus far...and have been approved every time.

[AFQuaid 18]

This is a very interesting thread. It reminds me of a fillable form way back last year thats only option for citizenship, place of birth and current residence the only drop down option was the long "United Kingdom/N. Ireland." I later disguarded using that particular fill in document as I was adviced here somebody went to their interview with it and got a telling off. I'm sure it wasn't for that reason but it made me think of it. Then I decided to just fill the form in by hand from one of the packets when I actually got them ...with Scotland as my birthplace and England UK as my current country of residence and of course a british citizen.

I wish the "UK" would just be a dang state of the US it'd be so much more simplier. But here's somebody here who thought Seatle was a state *runs.*

Fiona

Edited September 5, 2006 by AFQuaid

[meauxna 15]

Tee hee.......I just love you Brits. You all crack me up! Geographically you hail from a little ball of mud out in the Atlantic that is further divided into wee countries, and you are each so darn proud of them!

heheh, me too. The whole of GB fits inside my state with room to spare, but you drive 10 miles in the UK and you get a different 'regional' accent.

Reminds me of my Brit friends who are going to Disney in Florida and say we should come meet them (I think they might have the shorter flight!).