EEA4 to British Nationality...

[mehrazee]

Hi there,
I am new on this IMMIGRATION BOARDS but have been looking on posts and got guideline until I had my PR (EEA4). My EEA4 route is as below with dates;

Married with EEA National : 27 Nov 2009
Applied for EEA Spouse Visa : 20 Jan 2010
Got 5 years EEA Spouse Visa : 23 Jul 2010
Got Divorced with EEA Spouse : 16 May 2013

After Divorce I applied for the Retain rights to live in UK that was refused and my 5 years residence document was revoked. Then I appealed. The case went through some hearings and finally on 9th October 2015 I got the Permanent Residence Card stamp on my Passport.

I have done Life in UK and Trinity College English Qualification for British nationality. Can I apply for the British Nationality at 23 July 2016, as I was issued my first 5 years EEA spouse visa exactly 6 years ago as of this upcoming date?

Otherwise the One year will complete on 9th October 2016 since the PR granted through EEA Spouse route.

Please advise.

[noajthan]

There is no EEA spouse visa so not sure what you mean by that.

Yours is not a straightforward case so you may not be able to estimate the date yourself.

HO keeps an internal record (in its CID computer databank) of when they think (or have recorded) that someone's PR was acquired.
You may be able to find this out by requesting a SAR from UKVI.

Or apply to naturalise via NCS as NCS have a hotline by which they can check when you acquired PR.
(Of course if you apply too early at NCS you will have wasted the NCS fee but better than losing the whole citizenship fee).

Suggest crosschecking that your proof of English is still valid and accepted too; (requirements changed in November 2015).

[Noetic]

Suggest crosschecking that your proof of English is still valid and accepted too; (requirements changed in November 2015).

Trinity College B1 is one of the few accepted ones so OP should be ok on that front.

[noajthan]

Suggest crosschecking that your proof of English is still valid and accepted too; (requirements changed in November 2015).

Trinity College B1 is one of the few accepted ones so OP should be ok on that front.

Probably worth checking.
It still needs to be a SELT and to have been taken at one of the approved test centres (unless some exception applies).