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What is the most common reason of unsuccessful naturalization of EEA members?

How would we know that?

A lot of people fail on the requirement to be present in the UK 5 years ago on the day of the application. This is one of the things there is no discretion on.

Saladin0011 wrote:What is the most common reason of unsuccessful naturalization of EEA members?

Likely to be much the same as for non-EEA applicants:

• failure to meet mandatory requirements (for example: fee payment, wrongly-timed application, proof of English, LITUK, immigration status, residency, proof of physical presence, absences)

and/or

• good character issues.

How they can check on proof of physical presence, absence or good character issues?

Saladin0011 wrote:How they can check on proof of physical presence, absence or good character issues?

It is up to the applicant to submit adequate supporting evidence which is then crosschecked and verified against a number of government and other sources.
Character is weighed up and assessed on a balance of probabilities.

What??
Character is weighed up and assessed on a balance of probabilities.
It doesn't make any sense. Is there any guideline for this?

Saladin0011 wrote:What??
Character is weighed up and assessed on a balance of probabilities.
It doesn't make any sense. Is there any guideline for this?

Ofcourse there is a method to this.
Contrary to what the Daily Fail and other media may have you believe, the privilege of citizenship is not doled out like end of term reports or candy bars.

The HO is not stuck in the dark ages, simply relying on a 'sharp intake of breath and wet finger in the air' or poking through chicken entrails; (that's reserved for Tier 1 applicants) <<<< English humour.

Ref https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... _D_v02.pdf

Saladin0011 wrote:What??
Character is weighed up and assessed on a balance of probabilities.
It doesn't make any sense. Is there any guideline for this?

Any periods of overstay or residence without valid leave, police reports, Court records, non-payment of Council tax, undischarged debts or bankruptcy, tax discrepancies/deception cross-checked with HMRC etc. Together with the long list in noajthan's official link.

Wow.. OK, so every case worker is going through all this checks? Now I understand why it take so long....

Saladin0011 wrote:Wow.. OK, so every case worker is going through all this checks? Now I understand why it take so long....

Yes, it's a stringent process and as said above, British citizenship is not just handed out willy-nilly as some newspapers would have you believe.

noajthan wrote:

Saladin0011 wrote:What is the most common reason of unsuccessful naturalization of EEA members?

Likely to be much the same as for non-EEA applicants:
<snip> immigration status <snip>

We fairly frequently hear on these boards of British citizenship being denied on the grounds of past periods of overstay for people who appear to have ILR. However, does this tend to happen for people on the EEA route? We have lots of people who have been delayed getting PR because there was a period when they weren't covered by the exercise of treaty rights, e.g. periods as a student without CSI, and wives with non-EEA husbands giving up work to look after young children. Are they being denied citizenship because of these periods with no legal basis of stay? I haven't noticed any such cases, and I can see an argument for turning a blind eye to them. It's also possible that it is just that it is too hard for the Home Office to establish that people weren't covered.

Plenty of denials due to lack of PR status = immigration status.

I leave trawling the forum or hacking the HO CID databank as an exercise for the interested reader.

noajthan wrote:Plenty of denials due to lack of PR status = immigration status.

Now that was a reason that should have been peculiar to EEA-route naturalisation. Whereas one should know whether one has ILR (unless one has been here for decades), it wasn't so easy to be sure of having achieved PR, and one's evidence could always have been rejected as inadequate. Lack of PR status should now be fairly rare, as form AN now asks about the DCPR/PRC.

Yes, I know, not reading the instructions is a common cause of failure.

noajthan wrote:I leave trawling the forum or hacking the HO CID databank as an exercise for the interested reader.

Shouldn't the 'hive mind' do a good job of trawling the forum?