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Hope someone can give me an idea if I do qualify for Citizenship here is my story.
Came to the UK in 2003 applied for asylum at Port of entry Heathrow airport. Got refused in 2004 and stayed on as an illegal immigrant.
In 2009 wrote to HO to be considered on the legacy cases and was granted IRL in 2010 March.
Been on a job for the past 5 years and no driving or other convictions.
My life at the moment.
Living with my cohabiting patner who is EU national with EU passport and have a daughter and she have a British passport if any of that info is helpful.
Thank you in advance for your opinions.

[quote="nes201"]Hope someone can give me an idea if I do qualify for Citizenship here is my story.
Came to the UK in 2003 applied for asylum at Port of entry Heathrow airport. Got refused in 2004 and stayed on as an illegal immigrant.
In 2009 wrote to HO to be considered on the legacy cases and was granted IRL in 2010 March.
Been on a job for the past 5 years and no driving or other convictions.
My life at the moment.
Living with my cohabiting patner who is EU national with EU passport and have a daughter and she have a British passport if any of that info is helpful.
Thank you in advance for your opinions.[/quote]

hi,

I am not a guru but as far as I know with the new rule (from December 2014) if you overstayed illegally you are not allowed to apply for BC for 10 years!
Does not matter that you have ILR or your child has British passport, I am afraid

Read this: http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 84343.html

Thanks for that don't want to waste my money I might as well go for holiday just that to much hussle getting the shengen visas.

jaweb wrote:

nes201 wrote:Hope someone can give me an idea if I do qualify for Citizenship here is my story.
Came to the UK in 2003 applied for asylum at Port of entry Heathrow airport. Got refused in 2004 and stayed on as an illegal immigrant.
In 2009 wrote to HO to be considered on the legacy cases and was granted IRL in 2010 March.
Been on a job for the past 5 years and no driving or other convictions.
My life at the moment.
Living with my cohabiting patner who is EU national with EU passport and have a daughter and she have a British passport if any of that info is helpful.
Thank you in advance for your opinions.

hi,

I am not a guru but as far as I know with the new rule (from December 2014) if you overstayed illegally you are not allowed to apply for BC for 10 years!
Does not matter that you have ILR or your child has British passport, I am afraid

Read this: http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 84343.html

10 years from the date of the illegal entry which now have passed.

[quote="badratio"][quote="jaweb"][quote="nes201"]Hope someone can give me an idea if I do qualify for Citizenship here is my story.
Came to the UK in 2003 applied for asylum at Port of entry Heathrow airport. Got refused in 2004 and stayed on as an illegal immigrant.
In 2009 wrote to HO to be considered on the legacy cases and was granted IRL in 2010 March.
Been on a job for the past 5 years and no driving or other convictions.
My life at the moment.
Living with my cohabiting patner who is EU national with EU passport and have a daughter and she have a British passport if any of that info is helpful.
Thank you in advance for your opinions.[/quote]

hi,

I am not a guru but as far as I know with the new rule (from December 2014) if you overstayed illegally you are not allowed to apply for BC for 10 years!
Does not matter that you have ILR or your child has British passport, I am afraid

Read this: http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 84343.html[/quote]

10 years from the date of the illegal entry which now have passed.[/quote]


Is it not from the year since he has been lawfully here which means he can apply in 2020?

badratio wrote:

jaweb wrote:

nes201 wrote:Hope someone can give me an idea if I do qualify for Citizenship here is my story.
Came to the UK in 2003 applied for asylum at Port of entry Heathrow airport. Got refused in 2004 and stayed on as an illegal immigrant.
In 2009 wrote to HO to be considered on the legacy cases and was granted IRL in 2010 March.
Been on a job for the past 5 years and no driving or other convictions.
My life at the moment.
Living with my cohabiting patner who is EU national with EU passport and have a daughter and she have a British passport if any of that info is helpful.
Thank you in advance for your opinions.

hi,

I am not a guru but as far as I know with the new rule (from December 2014) if you overstayed illegally you are not allowed to apply for BC for 10 years!
Does not matter that you have ILR or your child has British passport, I am afraid

Read this: http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... 84343.html

10 years from the date of the illegal entry which now have passed.

Incorrect. It is ten years from the last day of illegal stay. So approximately March 2020 from the information he has given.

If:

8.10 wrote:an application for asylum or leave to remain was refused but was
later acknowledged to be an incorrect decision and the
appropriate leave was granted.

Then discretion should be used.

However, the question would be, was the refusal later acknowledged to be an incorrect decision?

The you for the input so far hope to get more arguments before I take a plunge as it's a lot of money to loose.

nes201 wrote:The you for the input so far hope to get more arguments before I take a plunge as it's a lot of money to loose.

Amber's post should be enough.

9.7 Evasion of immigration control
The decision maker will normally refuse an application if within the 10 years
preceding the application the person has not been compliant with immigration
requirements, including but not limited to having:
a. failed to report
b. failed to comply with any conditions imposed under the Immigration Acts
c. been detected working in the UK without permission.

Forums like this do save some of us a fortune will be back again in 2020 With God's blessing to try again ✌.