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by Christophe » Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:22 pm
British citizens are free to enter the UK at any time and also free to settle in the UK at any time. As British citizens you can be away for as long as you like and return to the UK whenever you like. It makes no difference how you obtained your British citizenship — whether you were a citizen at birth or whether you naturalised or registered as a British citizen later on in life. In short, there is no requirement to return to the UK every year, or every 3 years, or anything like that.
If you are living abroad when your passport expires, you can renew it via the relevant British mission (embassy, high commission or consulate).
Would you be planning to have children while abroad? If so, their status could be affected by how you gained your British citizenship. If one of you is a British citizen by birth or a British citizen by naturalisation, however, the children would be British citizens by descent: more information about all of that is available if you need it.