EU/EEA living in the UK 5 years-what next?Need an advice!

[freedom83]

I am hoping to get an advice.
I am Polish national, exercising EU treaty rights in the UK.
I arrived in the UK- July 2003
I have registered with HO under WRS in May 2004 as soon as Poland joined EU.
In 2007 i applied for my Residence Card ( issued March 2007).
This year will be 5 years since i arrived in the UK.
I have few questions:
1. How long is the Residence Certificate valid for?
2.When can I apply for Permanent Residence? How should I count those 5 years ( since I arrived in the UK or when I registered with HO or t depends when i applied for a Residence Certificate??)
3. When and how could I apply for a British Citizenship under European Law?
I have not been absent from the UK for more than 3 weeks each of those years.

I would truly appreciate if someone could give a clue what I could do next as I really need an advice.
Thank you in advance

Ange

[thsths]

1. How long is the Residence Certificate valid for?

Usually 5 years, but it should have an expiration date.

2.When can I apply for Permanent Residence? How should I count those 5 years ( since I arrived in the UK or when I registered with HO or t depends when i applied for a Residence Certificate??)

I think this would be 5 years after Poland joined the EU, assuming that you have been exercising treaty rights (it is hard not to).

3. When and how could I apply for a British Citizenship under European Law?

Currently you can apply 1 years after PR, but this is likely to change next year.

Tom

[sakura]

I am hoping to get an advice.
I am Polish national, exercising EU treaty rights in the UK.
I arrived in the UK- July 2003
I have registered with HO under WRS in May 2004 as soon as Poland joined EU.
In 2007 i applied for my Residence Card ( issued March 2007).
This year will be 5 years since i arrived in the UK.
I have few questions:
1. How long is the Residence Certificate valid for?
2.When can I apply for Permanent Residence? How should I count those 5 years ( since I arrived in the UK or when I registered with HO or t depends when i applied for a Residence Certificate??)
3. When and how could I apply for a British Citizenship under European Law?
I have not been absent from the UK for more than 3 weeks each of those years.

I would truly appreciate if someone could give a clue what I could do next as I really need an advice.
Thank you in advance

Ange

You qualify for Permanent Residency as an EU/EEA national five years from the date you started exercising your treaty rights, which, as a Polish national, was the date Poland joined the EU, which was from May 2004. So you will obtain PR in May 2009.

The reason being is that once you became an EU national, you began to use the European immigration route, which, in a way, "reset" your immigration clock - essentially, it means you moved from the UK immigration rules to the EU rules, which re-started your timeline.