Mymorg wrote:well, we called the home office and they did explicitly tell us that i must prove that i am exercising treaty rights, and since my husband (british citizen) is married to me, he can not claim benefits of any kind - because since we are married they would affect me as well. they also told me that i must, after 5 years living here apply for a permanent residence card and then wait a year to apply for british citizenship - which i thought was wrong, i thought i would get irl after 5 years then be able to apply for britiish citizenship right away. these laws seems to be changing quickly and the process is really confusing. just hope everyone knows that under surrinder singh now, if your british spouse does claim any benifits that will also automatically count for the couple as a unit, this will in fact affect the eea2 ss persons path to citizenship.
See related reply in hubby's related post.
Helpline seems to have been dishing out garbled nonsense today.
You do
not have to exercise treaty rights, in fact you cannot as you are a direct family member and dependent of your 'EEA' sponsor.
You simply reside in UK for 5 years and will then acquire PR automatically (assuming no
Brexit and no prolonged absences from UK - and you remain married).
You do not have to be free from immigration time restrictions for a further 12 months (with 'settled status' / PR) as you can naturalise under section 6(2) of BNA as the spouse of a BC.
In other words, acquire PR after 5 years in UK, then apply to get your (confirmation of) PR card, then immediately apply to naturalise asap (assuming all other requirements for citizenship have been/can be met by then).
