Physically present in the UK Requirement - Questions
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:48 pm
Hello everyone,
I have recently got my ILR approved (Tier 2 - General Visa, 5 years route) and should be receiving my BRP in the next week or so. Now that I have this Permanent Resident status, I would like to open my process for British Citizenship by "Naturalisation". I am married to a British person and can prove our very long relationship.
My question is mainly in regards to the rule that I have to have been physically present in the UK at the beginning of the 3/5 years residence period, from the date the Home Office receives my Citizenship application.
1. What determines if I have to calculate 3 OR 5 years back? I have being living here since September 2014, in a Tier 2 General Visa, that now entitled me to my ILR. Would my case just be to calculate from 3 years ago?
2. What does it mean: "the day the Home Office receives your application"? Is that after I have submitted it online, but before they have make a decision? What I mean is: from the moment the HO receives the application, is that when it usually starts counting the "up to 6 months" application process? Or usually from the moment they receive the application is pretty much the end of it?
The reason I am asking this very specifically, is because I am trying to decide which day I should submit my application, considering that I have been in many trips throughout those 5 years. (And yes, I have not spent more than 270 days outside the UK during the 3 years before my application, or more than 90 days outside the UK in the last 12 months)
My current plan is to only submit it on 18 December 2019. If I date it back 3 years ago, I would have just came back from a trip in the beginning of December 2016, and my next one was in May 2016. In your experience, would you say that this would be safe enough of a gap for the HO to receive my application and guarantee that I was physically present in UK? Ideally I would love to submit it this coming month already, but again, I worry that this could coincide with other trips from 3 years ago.
Thank you so much for your time!
I have recently got my ILR approved (Tier 2 - General Visa, 5 years route) and should be receiving my BRP in the next week or so. Now that I have this Permanent Resident status, I would like to open my process for British Citizenship by "Naturalisation". I am married to a British person and can prove our very long relationship.
My question is mainly in regards to the rule that I have to have been physically present in the UK at the beginning of the 3/5 years residence period, from the date the Home Office receives my Citizenship application.
1. What determines if I have to calculate 3 OR 5 years back? I have being living here since September 2014, in a Tier 2 General Visa, that now entitled me to my ILR. Would my case just be to calculate from 3 years ago?
2. What does it mean: "the day the Home Office receives your application"? Is that after I have submitted it online, but before they have make a decision? What I mean is: from the moment the HO receives the application, is that when it usually starts counting the "up to 6 months" application process? Or usually from the moment they receive the application is pretty much the end of it?
The reason I am asking this very specifically, is because I am trying to decide which day I should submit my application, considering that I have been in many trips throughout those 5 years. (And yes, I have not spent more than 270 days outside the UK during the 3 years before my application, or more than 90 days outside the UK in the last 12 months)
My current plan is to only submit it on 18 December 2019. If I date it back 3 years ago, I would have just came back from a trip in the beginning of December 2016, and my next one was in May 2016. In your experience, would you say that this would be safe enough of a gap for the HO to receive my application and guarantee that I was physically present in UK? Ideally I would love to submit it this coming month already, but again, I worry that this could coincide with other trips from 3 years ago.
Thank you so much for your time!