Can I apply for naturalisation while awaiting my BRP replacement card?

aiousfniuasnfioa wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:03 pm

Hi! Recently I entered the border, can't find my ILR BRP, told the IO I must have misplaced it, who then checked the system and let me in, got home and applied for a new one, reported it lost (4 weeks later but presumably not a big deal since it takes longer), then found it in a drawer.

This doesn't paint me as the most organised person, but that's how it is. Actually there's more:

After all this I realised that, having received an ILR as a spouse of a british citizen, I am eligible to apply for naturalisation immediately, when before I thought I had to wait a year, I am now hoping to apply for naturalisation soon.

Would I have to wait for the new replacement BRP to arrive, or can I just send in my ILR decision letter and my old cancelled BRP and write in explaining that I already have an active ILR, and am in the process of waiting for my BRP? I consider this because presumably the BRP is not actually necessary for the naturalisation, but my ILR status, and the BRP is just evidence of identity (I will be giving in my passport as well and other documents).

I only ask because it says an ILR BRP could take up to half a year, and I'd prefer to have it done sooner rather than later. Let's say I should wait for the replacement permit, will anything I had done present an issue for naturalisation? I did not get stamped as a visitor or anything and I last entered the border the IO checked my BRP status and presumably that's evidence that the system still has my ILR as active despite lost BRP right?

Thank you!

if I do not pay taxes (unemployed) do I still have to do self assessment?

I assume not, but it merely writes that if you don't do PAYE you have to do self assessment without addressing unemployed applicants.