Impact of Redundancy on citizenship application

[bm]

Hi,

I got my ILR in Jan 04.
I have been made redundant in July 04.
I am aiming to apply for citizenship in Jan 05 and am wondering whether applying for unemployment benefits now could impact on my chances.

Could you help me please ?

Many thanks

Binesh

[Epiphany]

You would be fine. The citizenship application doesn't ask you if you've claimed any benefits. You'd only need to provide your NI details and so on. Plus you are well within your rights to claim unemployment benefits as an ILR holder

[AtW]

Does one have to be employed in order to apply for naturalisation? Lets say hypothetically speaking person is self-employed in business that is yet to generate returns, that person does not claim any benefits etc. Sufficient funds to continue business dev etc. From what I have seen naturalisation app does not seem to care about earnings so much as it is proven that there are no issues with Inland Revenue.

Am I correct?

[Epiphany]

ATW,
No, there is no stipulation that you have to be employed to apply for naturalisation. As you've pointed out, as long your IR affairs are in order and one has no criminal history, it is going to be fine.
Cheers