I would suggest emailing furthernationalityenquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk with your query about your wife's acquisition of British nationality and keeping us posted of developments on this thread. Thanks for all the advice. If we find an answer, we will post the results. Incidentally, that email ...
She should meet the same naturalisation requirements as everyone else. Three years residence will be applicable, only if she is the spouse or civil partner of a British citizen. This is what we expected to be the case but it does seem slightly inconsistent with Indeed, Section 2(2) of the Section ...
Are you absolutely certain that your wife has got Right of Abode? Is it evidenced by a Certificate of Entitlement-Right of Abode in her current passport? Yes, she does have Right of Abode. My wife is an Australian (as am I) and she married a UK citizen (living in Australia) in 1981. She received ...
My wife has Right of Abode for the UK (Commonwealth citizen previously married to a UK citizen). I have ILR and I understand the rules that apply to me in regards to applying for citizenship. Is the process for gaining British citizenship the same for her as it is for me? Specifically, does she have ...
Thanks Casa Yes, that was my understanding as well. I've only been in the UK for two years so I still have another three years to go before I can apply for citizenship but, as I intend to spend a fair bit of that time out the UK, I realise that I will not be able to start counting for a while yet. I ...
Thanks Casa, I appreciate your fulsome response. I understand the point you are making. In our case, we do not intend to stay out of the country for (almost) two years and then come back for a week or so before playing the game again and again. We are actually planning on a few (probably no more ...
For the benefit of anyone who may, in the future, seek an answer to this question, the following is a (part) response I received from UKVI in response to a question I raised with them. Question: It is our intention to travel extensively on holidays throughout the world, sometimes remaining out of ...
I thought I had made it clear that I am talking about absences LESS THAN TWO YEARS! We will be gone for a few months and then return for a few months before leaving again for a few months. Also, you are wrong to suggest that both our visas will be cancelled. As I said, my wife has right of abode, so ...
Let me be more specific about my circumstances. (1) We own our home in London in which we live. (2) We are both retired and financially self sufficient. (3) We have decided to settle in the UK. (4) My wife has Right of Abode and I have ILR. (5) We plan on travelling to various countries throughout ...
Please let me be clear about what you are saying. If I spend, say, nine months out of the country and then return for a month or so before travelling again for a few months, are you saying that they'll refuse me entry or allow entry perhaps as a visitor?? If that is the case, that is truly scary and ...
So how do you decide what is going to be acceptable? If I can't stay out of the country for two years, back in the UK for a day and repeat the process ad infinitum, how about if I stay out for 1 day, back in the UK for two years and repeat the process? Both extremes may be done with the intention to ...
Thanks Amber. Notwithstanding the two year rule, I assume that if someone was to be out of the country for two years, then return to the UK before leaving again the following day for another two year period and continued this process for several years, the UKBA might well challenge him or her ...
I have recently been granted ILR. My question is to do with how long I can now spend outside the UK without incurring the wrath of the UKBA? My wife and I are both retired and plan on doing a lot of travelling both in and outside the UK over the next few years. At the end of our travel, we intend to ...
Yes, thank you. That was also my reading of the requirements. I have read though, that there may be some flexibility in regards to the times out of the country dependant on the circumstances. I know, for example, that will allow more days out of the country if you have been resident for longer than ...
My wife and I have lived in the UK for the past two years. She has the right of abode and I have recently been granted ILR. We are both retired and want to spend our life travelling the world before eventually returning to live in the UK where we own our own home. In the two years we have been in ...
Yes, it is a great relief. In retrospect, the whole experience was quite good. The PSC at Croydon are to be congratulated on their professionalism at every stage of the process. Very friendly, very helpful people. Thanks also to those people on this forum who have been helpful and prepared to offer ...
I have just contacted the UKBA and been advised that I cannot get back into the UK without the BRP which means that, unless the BRP arrives within a few days, I am going to have to cancel my travel plans which will impact on several other people as well as myself. They advise me that the moment my ...
Thanks Amber, I very much appreciate your help. I must say that I find it quite incongruous that 24 hours ago, when I hadn't been granted ILR, I could have left the country as planned but now, having been granted the ILR, I can't!! Do you have any suggestions about whom I might contact in the UKBA ...
Any thoughts on the second part of my question - is it really an issue to leave the country for a few days simply because I don't yet have a BRP, given that I still have a valid spouse visa in my passport?
I was granted ILR today at the Croydon PSC and handed a letter that said the BRP should be received by me within seven working days. The letter also advised that I should not make any travel arrangements until I have received the BRP. We have a long standing commitment to travel to Rome next ...
