A8 National and British Citizenship

[adnan01]

Hi,

My wife is Latvian National living in the UK since 2006 June, she worked between 2006 to 2008. In year 2009 our child was born so she never worked since that time and she never registered on working registration scheme.

She have never claimed any benefits, what I want to know is that can she apply for British Citizenship on basis of 'self sufficient' for more then five years living in the UK? she did obtain registration certificate as a student and she is exercising treaty rights for past 2.5 years. However, I am willing to know the other side which is 'self sufficient' that whether she can apply for British Citizenship on that behalf. If yes, then what documentary evidence she would be required to present?

Kindly advice

Thanks:)

[boloney]

Hi,

My wife is Latvian National living in the UK since 2006 June, she worked between 2006 to 2008. In year 2009 our child was born so she never worked since that time and she never registered on working registration scheme.

She have never claimed any benefits, what I want to know is that can she apply for British Citizenship on basis of 'self sufficient' for more then five years living in the UK? she did obtain registration certificate as a student and she is exercising treaty rights for past 2.5 years. However, I am willing to know the other side which is 'self sufficient' that whether she can apply for British Citizenship on that behalf. If yes, then what documentary evidence she would be required to present?

Kindly advice

Thanks:)

Did you get csi for her, yourself and child whe she became selfsufficent person?
If, No she Have to start counting 5 years again when you get it.

[adnan01]

Thank you very much for your reply.

I'm Pakistani National and were living in the UK since 2004 to 2011 and then I worked in Dubai for past one year.. I just came back to the UK on an EEA family permit. My wife got CSI in September 2009 till Nov 2010 then we cancelled it. Recently she took CSI again and currently she has it. She worked 2 years so she has NI number and she has been registered with the GP all this time. Our child were born in the UK but we got latvian nationality for our child.

My wife is willing to apply for British citizenship because she is living in the country almost 6 years now. She has never claimed any benefits, in other words she has been self sufficient for all the period of her stay in the UK. So I want to know that is there any way we can apply for her permanent residency or British citizenship?

Kindly advice

[Jambo]

Your wife has been a worker, a student or self sufficient person during the five years.

For periods as a worker and student she did not need CSI (based on your statement that she did register with the HO as a student). For periods she was self sufficient she would need CSI. It is not clear from your post if the CSI covered all the self sufficient period.

I would suggest she try to apply for PR confirmation using EEA3. It's a free application so no much downside here. She might get lucky and get it even if the CSI did not cover all the self sufficient period. If she does, she can then apply for BC one year after getting the PR confirmation.