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milan69 wrote:As EU citizen you will need to prove that you have been exercising treaty rights for 5 years in order to be eligible to apply.
If you have PR and have been living in the UK for the last 5 years than you are fine.
Treaty rights refer to any of the following:-
Employment (including job seeking)
Self-Employment
Study
Economic Self-Sufficiency
Those in study and the economically self-sufficient have to have comprehensive sickness insurance.
milan69 wrote:You have to options and that is to apply for PR or apply for naturalisation without it.
The difference is that when you have been exercising treaty rights for 5 years continuously you can apply for PR (permanent residence). Without PR you will have to prove that you have been exercising treaty rights for 6 years continuously before you can apply.
In both case you will be required to prove exercising treaty rights and show evidence of being a "qualified person".
milan69 wrote:I am not EU national and all I can say is that you will be asked to prove that you are "qualified person" having exercised treaty rights in the manner the law expects you to.
Your length of residency is not relevant as it is expected of you to be exercising treaty rights for minimum 5 years.
Maybe you should get more familiar about what "exercising treaty rights" mean.
Maybe other members can give more advice on this.
thanks will read the docs u sentLilyLalilu wrote:You should have a read of this, which may provide some clarification:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... apter6.pdf
and this: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1003/made (Comprehensive sickness insurance (CSI) is mentioned in 4))
I know that they were different regulations in place regarding permanent residence before 2000, where EEA citizens were automatically regarded as settled (no 5 year rule) as long as they were exercising treaty rights, so this may help you...but not sure how exactly this worked and whether you needed to apply for confirmation of your status at the time - maybe seniors can advise on this?
In any case, one can apply for naturalisation one year after holding permanent residence (unless married to a UK national).