Obie wrote:Page 27-28 deals with different scenerio, but i don't believe those scenerio's are exhaustive.

Thank you, Obie... It blows my mind how complex these regulations can be...

You only had to register in first 12 months of work, not all the time. AFAIK I'd need to have worked for 12 months continuously to become exempt, which I definitely haven't. If only part time work it probably fails 'genuine and effective' test anyway. Let alone HO PET test, if they apply it. (You ...

Thanks noajthan. Much appreciated. I'll take a look. EU national are also subject to the breach of immigration law requirements, when their presence in the UK WAS not in accordance with the regulations. So I'm 100% doomed when it comes to naturalization? At least until 10 years after WRS, i.e. 2021?

Makes sense... It's clear people who should have been registered and never were registered have been refused the privilege of citizenship. So even people who already had PR and who were breaking WRS before their PR QP? (E.g. someone was breaking WRS in 2005, then got WRS in 2006 and has been WRS ...

Exactly. So if they don't penalise people who have registered months late, as per http://www.immigrationboards.com/british-citizenship/did-anyone-with-late-wrs-registration-get-british-citizenshi-t204638.html, do you think that it's still likely that they will penalise people who haven't registered ...

But so is being late with the WRS registration, isn't it? Agree that more so in the case of no registration at all (although counting the duration of illegal work might be a more applicable criterion in this case), but still?

Thank you very much, noajthan. I'll do that. Btw, any news on "the $64,000 question" re the absence of a few WRS registration certificates vs naturalizing to get "the holy grail of BC" and its "good character" requirement? I read http://www.immigrationboards.com/british-citizenship/did-anyone-with ...

Hi, I'm an A8 national and I'd like to apply for DCPR, with the goal to apply for citizenship after that. I did my university degree in the UK from September 2006 to Jun 2011, which is almost 5 years. I arrived in the UK a few days prior to beginning my studies. Before that, I visited the UK a few ...