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What happens to ILR after you gain citizenship?

You cannot use to travel? We might be travelling soon after the citizenship ceremony. My wife is a US passport holder and we will be travelling to a country which has visa waiver rights for the US so can she travel out on her US passport and return to the UK on her US passport and show her ILR in her old passport?

Or is this going to confuse the authorities?

BTW is it a requirement that once you have your citizenship you must apply for your passport?

There is no legal requirement to apply for a British passport although it does make life easier.

As she has ILR in her passport, she should be ok to return to the UK as she does not have a BRP card with ILR that has to be returned.

ILR is effectively cancelled out by becoming British and is therefore no longer valid.

What happens to ILR after you gain citizenship?
It ceases to be. Some threads have discussed this issue in the past.

If your wife does not wish to apply for a British passport, she should consider applying for a CoE-RoA stamp in her US Passport. Mind you that that does not entitle her to visit any EEA country as a British citizen, for which she will need a British passport.

More detailed information on CoE-RoA.

secret.simon wrote:If your wife does not wish to apply for a British passport, she should consider applying for a CoE-RoA stamp in her US Passport. Mind you that that does not entitle her to visit any EEA country as a British citizen, for which she will need a British passport.

As a visitor, she might be more welcome as a US citizen!

In practical terms, until she gets her British passport, she travels on her US passport and re-enters the UK on her British naturalisation certificate if ILR was evidenced by a surrendered BRP card.

Richard W wrote:

secret.simon wrote:If your wife does not wish to apply for a British passport, she should consider applying for a CoE-RoA stamp in her US Passport. Mind you that that does not entitle her to visit any EEA country as a British citizen, for which she will need a British passport.

As a visitor, she might be more welcome as a US citizen!

In practical terms, until she gets her British passport, she travels on her US passport and re-enters the UK on her British naturalisation certificate if ILR was evidenced by a surrendered BRP card.

The OP says "and show her ILR in her old passport?" A BRP card isn't applicable here.

So what happens to the LIUK certificate that was sent off with the NCS application? Does the HO send it back or is it now null and void?

Also once we attend the citizenship ceremony how long after is my wife biometric data deleted? I understand that it is now deleted automatically but can I still send in a letter to have this confirmed.

kankerot wrote: Also once we attend the citizenship ceremony how long after is my wife biometric data deleted? I understand that it is now deleted automatically but can I still send in a letter to have this confirmed.

Also see this sticky.

kankerot wrote:So what happens to the LIUK certificate that was sent off with the NCS application? Does the HO send it back or is it now null and void?

The HO keep it as it has served its purpose. It would have been returned if used for an ILR application as you could have then used the same certificate for naturalisation, but at naturalisation, its effect is spent.