Tirinti wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:59 pm
If I won't become citizen before the end of the year, I will have to apply for the settled status and then wait another year to apply for the citizenship again. I wonder if I should contact Home Office and tell them I can attend ceremony in any council.
This is not directly related to the topic, but you will not need to apply for citizenship again since you have already been approved. It doesn’t matter if your PR expired end of the year or even today. It’s totally irrelevant. Even if they send you a citizenship ceremony invitation in 2022 (obviously exaggerating here) you will still not have to apply again.
Regarding what you said about settled status, you can apply for it now (it might make your life easier to have it in the meantime). Until you attend your citizenship ceremony, you are still considered a foreigner and you can apply for settled status without any issues. You can do it today or next year if you like provided that you haven’t attended the citizenship ceremony yet. Once you do attend the citizenship ceremony, your settled status will be automatically void.
Regarding the last question about contacting them to change the council they should send the invitation to, I would personally not do that because in current circumstances it takes a long time. By the time they change it in their system, your council is likely to resume ceremonies anyway. Also it doesn’t really matter which council you selected as the vast majority of certificates for individuals who got approved after March 2020 haven’t been dispatched yet anyway.