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by secret.simon » Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:24 pm
NCS is correct.
Citizenship is not a part of the immigration pathway, which terminates at ILR/PR. It is given under different rules, made under different laws and issued by a different team in the Home Office.
Each naturalisation application is independent. Your wife does not meet the qualification of either Section 6(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981 (which require at least five years of residence in UK) or Section 6(2) (which requires three years of residence when married to a British citizen).
At the time of application, you are not a British citizen. Indeed, you will not become a British citizen even when your application is successful. You only become a British citizen when you attend the citizenship ceremony, take the oath of allegiance and are issued the naturalisation certificate.
Following that, your wife would be eligible to apply under Section 6(2), assuming that she meets other requirements at that point in time.
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