Naturalization Q

[mm1900nn]

Hello All,

I want to apply for naturalization. However I don't satisfy the condition of 450 days in the last 5 years.

How do the Home Office know how many days I was away from the UK during the last 5 years?

Thank you all,

MM

[John]

How many days have you spent outside the UK in the last five years? And indeed also in the last one year?

[mm1900nn]

Hi John,

525 days and 90 days in the last year.

Thanks,

MM

[John]

Have a read of :-

Annex B

-: of the instructions issued to the staff of IND dealing with naturalisation applications. In particular read from "4. Excess absences in the 5(3) year qualifying period".

Your day counts ... are they the counts up to now, or up to when you think that IND will receive your application form? For example, if you think IND might receive your form on say 20th May 2005, the five year period to consider is from 21st May 2000 to 20th May 2005.

Also, are you aware that you do not count either the day that you leave the UK or the day you return. That is, you only count days spent wholly abroad .... midnight to midnight ... and not any part-days.

[tgs]

Also, are you aware that you do not count either the day that you leave the UK or the day you return. That is, you only count days spent wholly abroad .... midnight to midnight ... and not any part-days.

Let met get technical...

If I leave on 1 Jan at 16:30, land in the other country 2 Jan 08:00 and flyback 3 Jan 19:00 and land 4 Jan 09:00, I have spend zero days outside the country ?

[John]

tgs, no sorry, don't agree. I think it is simpler to ignore when you arrived in the other country, or left it. After all, where were you between say "1 Jan at 16:30, land in the other country 2 Jan 08:00" .... well mostly outside the UK of course, apart from a few minutes getting out of UK airspace.

So using your facts .... as edited by me .... "I leave on 1 Jan at 16:30 and land (back in the UK) 4 Jan 09:00" .... the 1st doesn't count ... neither does the 4th ... but you appear to be totally outside the UK on the 2nd and the 3rd. So day count for that trip = 2.

[basis]

Two example questions I have on this topic


a) if I leave UK on 14th April morning and return to UK on 14th April evening then day count for the trip = 0 ?

b) if I leave UK on 13th April morning and return to UK on 14th April evening then then day count for the trip = 0 ?

May sound obvious but will help me a lot as I have number of same / next day return trips to Europe (atleast 25) which I would save from being counted if the day count is zero in above two examples.

[John]

Basis ... your a and b .... both correct .... both zero days.