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Hello,

I did my masters in the UK, and currently I am a PhD student. I have never worked in the UK. Therefore, I did not get a National Insurance Number. For an NI number, I have been told that I have to wait 3 weeks for the application form and 16 weeks for an approval. This means I need to wait nearly for 5 months to get an NI number.

Is having a National Insurance Number mandatory for UK citizenship application?

Thanks

abk108751 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:37 pm

Hello,

I did my masters in the UK, and currently I am a PhD student. I have never worked in the UK. Therefore, I did not get a National Insurance Number. For an NI number, I have been told that I have to wait 3 weeks for the application form and 16 weeks for an approval. This means I need to wait nearly for 5 months to get an NI number.

Is having a National Insurance Number mandatory for UK citizenship application?

Thanks

No

If you do not already have a National Insurance number, you only need to apply for one if you’re planning to:

work
claim benefits
apply for a student loan
pay Class 3 voluntary National Insurance contributions

https://www.gov.uk/apply-national-insurance-number

Employment is not necessary for Naturalisation. You could be unemployed for the last 10 years, does not matter.

Hello,

If a referee graduated from engineering but not working as an engineer, can I write his profession as an engineer?

Thanks

Yes if he is registered with the Engineering council or a regulatory body in UK.
The Engineering Council is the UK regulatory body for the engineering profession.

abk108751 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:33 pm

If a referee graduated from engineering but not working as an engineer, can I write his profession as an engineer?

The first step to becoming professionally registered with the Engineering Council as EngTech, IEng, CEng or ICTTech is membership of a licensed professional engineering institution. The institution will act as the awarding body for the registration.

Suggest you check if the proposed referee is member of a professional engineering institution. They charge an annual membership fee + collect from their members an annual contribution to the Engineering Council.

Getting a degree in engineering does not in itself amount to a "professional standing" , it is just the first step.

Hello everyone,

-I lived at my current address from 2014 to 2015 for 14 months then went back to my country for around 5 months.
-For this 5 months period I informed my council that I moved out from the property and someone else rented it.
-After this 5 months period I came back to the UK rented the same property in the end of 2016 and been living at the same address util now for 4.5 years.

Under these circumstances, can I say that I moved in the address in 2014 and been living at the same address for more than 5 years?

Thank you

You can not declare living there if you were not living there at that time.