secret.simon wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 5:07 pm
MM24 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:55 pm
Will this affect my visa as it was attached to their settled status and will I then need to apply for a British spousal visa?
No.
You will continue on pre-settled status until the time you qualify for Settled Status.
If your EEA spouse has become a British citizen (after having attended the naturalisation ceremony) by then, you will be able to naturalise immediately after you have been granted Settled Status, assuming you meet the other requirements.
There might a caveat though.
At least as of very recently, if by the time you are eligible for Settled Status your spouse has become a British Citizen, you will not be able to apply for Settled Status online. You will have to apply via the Lounes route, which is only paper-based. You need to call and ask for a paper form, and this does and processing time.
For this particular reason only my partner waited before applying for naturalisation until I got Settled Status. Not saying you have to wait, but something to keep in mind (then again you won't need to wait the extra year after Settled Status as @secret.simon explained, so that might balance things out).
My posts express what I believe are the facts, based on the best of my knowledge, about the topics discussed in this forum. They do not constitute immigration advice.