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There is no requirement to have resided in the UK for 10 years. The requirement is that if you resided in the UK at any time in the past 10 years, any such residence must have been legal.hope_Is_everything wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:13 pmwill my application for naturalisation will be refused because i did not spend 10 continuous year in uk.
HI Secret Simon and anyone else who has a similar situation or someone who could assist - I have spoken with couple of professionals with regards to my situation (storyline in the above post). I am a bit confuse now. a solicitor has informed me that i can only apply for naturalisation for a successful application in November 2023 as that's when I will complete 10 years from the day I started living here legally on a leave (which was 5 year residency card issued in November 2013) .secret.simon wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:39 pmI have split your query into its own separate thread. Please keep all your queries about naturalisation in this thread.
There is no requirement to have resided in the UK for 10 years. The requirement is that if you resided in the UK at any time in the past 10 years, any such residence must have been legal.hope_Is_everything wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:13 pmwill my application for naturalisation will be refused because i did not spend 10 continuous year in uk.
You do need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of five years if not married to a British citizen.
Many thanks for your prompt reply Vinny,vinny wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 2:37 pmI think you cease to be an overstayer in the UK immediately after you left the UK. I don’t see how a person may be in breach of the UK immigration laws while being outside the UK. You were legally in the UK on your return under the EEA family permit, provided your wife/partner had an initial or extended or permanent right of residence. When did you get married?
You are eligible for citizenship & should apply .It seems you would have no issue with this complex matter of good character .The good character policy is nothing more than a tool to play politics with migrants eligible for citizenship.hope_Is_everything wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 3:58 pmMany thanks for your prompt reply Vinny,vinny wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 2:37 pmI think you cease to be an overstayer in the UK immediately after you left the UK. I don’t see how a person may be in breach of the UK immigration laws while being outside the UK. You were legally in the UK on your return under the EEA family permit, provided your wife/partner had an initial or extended or permanent right of residence. When did you get married?
we married outside UK in India in March 2012. our wedding is not registered in UK. However, My mrs is from Poland and we registered our wedding in Poland in the end of 2012 as i came to Poland prior to arriving in UK 2nd time on eea family permit which was in February 2013. I must add here that when we tried to marry in Uk in 2011, home office raided on the day at registrar office and did not allow wedding. However, they let me go and the officer insisted that i should leave the country voluntarily which I did. we did not know about eea family permit at that time so we were thinking of Applying for marriage/spouse visa and my wife suggested that it will be easy if we do it from Poland (her home country, know she is dual uk-eea national) so we stayed there for half a year at that time we learned that we could come back to uk on eea family permit and all my adverse immigration history will be over looked.
Vinny - do you think it's safe to apply now in June, given i was outside the country at this time 10 years ago, regardless my status at the time I left the country? or should I wait?
do i need to add a cover letter explaining my situation? they would know anyway all my background.
i will look forward to your reply. Thank you