Its sad news for me, my application is about to be refused. Came in UK in June 2002 on 6 months visiting visa running into November 2002. From then I stayed put without visa until Nov 2006 when I claimed asylum and was granted in July 2007. my IlR was granted and I applied for naturalisation on 03 of June 2014. For god sake where do I get evidence of how supported myself before I claimed asylum. I received a letter today from Homeoffice, I quote the content below:
'You were here without valid leave in the UK between 02.11.2002 when your sixonth visa expired until 31.07 2007 when you were granted asylum and limited Leave to Remain. You were not therefore compliant with UK immigration laws during this period. In order that we may give further consideration to your application please state how you were maintaining yourself in this country during this period and provide appropriate evidence i.e wage slips, benefits letters, evidence of other income
Please provide this information by 27.05.2015, failure to send these doc/information by the given date will result in the application being refused'
Please help if you can on what to do next, I know there were new rules on good character from Dec 2014, do these rules apply in retrospective