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Polish national living in UK since 2004 - citizenship
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:48 am
by st pauli
Hi, I have a friend who is Polish and has been exercising treaty rights in Britain for nine years now, and he finally wants to get a British passport.
Is it correct that he won't have to pay for any kind of official process, or undergo citizenship ceremony or anything, he can just apply for a passport much the same way as an existing British citizen does, and the only expense is the passport application itself?
Please let me know if I'm missing anything here.
Thanks
Re: Polish national living in UK since 2004 - citizenship
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:45 am
by Hubba
st pauli wrote:Hi, I have a friend who is Polish and has been exercising treaty rights in Britain for nine years now, and he finally wants to get a British passport.
Is it correct that he won't have to pay for any kind of official process, or undergo citizenship ceremony or anything, he can just apply for a passport much the same way as an existing British citizen does, and the only expense is the passport application itself?
Please let me know if I'm missing anything here.
Thanks :)
That's not correct. He needs to apply for naturalisaton (which would be granted in the terms you've described), which costs around £850. After the citizenship ceremony, he can apply for the passport.
Cheers.
Re: Polish national living in UK since 2004 - citizenship
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:57 pm
by boloney
st pauli wrote:Hi, I have a friend who is Polish and has been exercising treaty rights in Britain for nine years now, and he finally wants to get a British passport.
Is it correct that he won't have to pay for any kind of official process, or undergo citizenship ceremony or anything, he can just apply for a passport much the same way as an existing British citizen does, and the only expense is the passport application itself?
Please let me know if I'm missing anything here.
Thanks
make sure he pass life in the UK test first. Than he can apply using AN form.
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:06 pm
by Jambo
Also did he register his employment under WRS? If not, he can only apply in 2017.
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:32 pm
by Obie
Jambo wrote:Also did he register his employment under WRS? If not, he can only apply in 2017.
Provided he was exercising treaty rights as a worker, which according to OP's post,is not peetty obvious.
If he was exercising treaty rights in any other category, WRS is not required, and the person in question may not have to wait till 2017.