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You acquire your PR status automatically after 5 years of exercising treaty rights. EEA3 is optional and it is merely to prove your automatic right of permanent residence. You need to exercise your treaty rights for 5 years and live here for additional 1 year before your naturalisation application regardless of whether you do the EEA3 thing or not.RedMoon wrote: To my understanding if I go down EEA3 route I will lock myself out from applying for a year from getting PR as from what I know one needs to hold PR for a year before being able to apply for naturalisation.
Not correct. It's easier to rely on the date printed on your PR document, but as I said you automatically get your PR status. If you want to go by this theoretical date of PR, you will just have to also submit a proof of this date, which is likely to be the same bundle that you used for your EEA3. But, you still need one extra year from that theoretical date.RedMoon wrote: And I believe it will go by the date of PR document granted regardless of what my registration card date + 5 years would indicate?
Correct. But, you anyway have to spend 1 year without immigration time limit no matter what unless you are married to a British citizen.RedMoon wrote: Also, for the reason above my clear 5 year PR period + 1 year of holding PR would be Sept 2016 and not 2015 -am I correct?
yoshi_jp wrote:Not correct. It's easier to rely on the date printed on your PR document, but as I said you automatically get your PR status. If you want to go by this theoretical date of PR, you will just have to also submit a proof of this date, which is likely to be the same bundle that you used for your EEA3. But, you still need one extra year from that theoretical date.RedMoon wrote: And I believe it will go by the date of PR document granted regardless of what my registration card date + 5 years would indicate?