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Citizenship via EU settles status - Absences

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:34 pm
by southerndb
Hi,

My other half is looking to apply for citizenship, having been in the UK 5 years.

We understand that she needs to give evidence of when she was out for the country, however she didn't keep all of the emails for flights etc from 4 or 5 years ago.

Would approximate dates be enough?

It's going to be beneath the 450 day limit.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Citizenship via EU settles status - Absences

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 5:07 pm
by contorted_svy
Try your best to recover all the dates or as many as you can. You can do a SAR to the Home Office, it may not be entirely accurate but you may retrieve some more details. See here https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... mmigration

If you are a British citizen and you are married, your spouse will only need to provide evidence for the last 3 years, so it may be easier to reconstruct the trips, but must have ILR. If you aren't married, they will need to wait 12 months from the grant of ILR.