Herald96 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:16 pm
I have a few questions that might well sound straightforward or maybe funny...
I think it is important to explain why you are asking these. They might seem funny, silly, or sentimental, but they are not. I'll play a little the devil'a advocate here, as I think these questions are actually quite relevant and important.
- After gaining citizenship, would it be fair to call the UK my home?
For tax purposes, the question has a complicated answer. You might be a UK tax payer and UK resident, yet be non-domiciled. Read
this.
- Would it be fair to say that the soil that I walk on everyday would be the soil that I belong to?
Not straightforward either. There is nothing in the law dictating where a person "belongs". Not where you are born, not where you were raised, not the place you call home. The harshest of Home Office rules dictate that any non-UK national who has committed a crime that warrants them a jail sentence of 12 months of more, should be deported "to their country or origin". Even if that person was born in the UK and lived in the UK their whole life. That's the law.
Where does that person belong? Would you say that they belong less to the UK than someone who recently acquired British citizenship but has resided the bare minimum of just 4 years in the UK (via the spousal route)?
- Those who gone through the process before me, do you feel British?
I suppose this is the one question that can be answered reasonably well on a forum, as a crowed source one, just for the sake of statistics. My answer is, I don't know, probably halfway through. I'm studying British history now, and I feel like I understand this country's DNA better because of that, but there is obviously a cultural wall between what a native British person thinks, does, and behaves like; and what I do in contrast.
But everyone is different, and legally, I am British. That's a fact.
- Would it be weird to say that I get emotional everytime I see the union jack?
Again, not sure what you want to hear here. That's a personal experience and there is no good or bad answer. Sometimes I feel emotional in certain contexts when hearing my country of origin's national anthem, or flag; sometimes... not. Sometimes I feel admiration and respect for the Union jack... sometimes (specially remembering colonial history)... not.
Again, everyone is different, don't seek to justify or validate your answers by other's, your answers are your own.
- After becoming a British citizen, would that mean that I could work any job including goverment related jobs?
This one is easy and straightforward: No.
While it is true that since you acquired ILR (or it's EUSS equivalent) you have the indefinite right to live and work in the UK, this does not give you access to all types of government jobs. British citizenship does open some more opportunities than ILR; but even as a British citizen, there are jobs that are and will always be out of bounds for you. I've seen government adverts (presumably top security and intelligence) requiring not only British citizenship... but also British citizenship from both parents. Nothing you can do about that, and nothing any amount of British residence years can change, I'm afraid.
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.
) and I truly love this country.
