BRITISH CITIZEN

[hawaar]

Hi all,

I’m a new member here I have a question it would be appreciated if I get the right answer for it,,, I been living in UK from 2001, I been refused from home office once in 2001, I applied against the home office decision from the court and I got refused again in 2002 ,,,in the mean time I been receiving support from NASS until the beginning of 2003 , and then they stopped my support ,,, I received support from section 4 NASS once again in 2005 until April 2006 I also attended college ESOL from sep 2003 until April 2005 ,, after that I didn’t get the support from NASS anymore, due to wining a case in high court I reapply again on that base , I got indefinite leave to remain in Dec.2006 , after 12 months I want to apply for British citizen ship ,, I have,, I have told by national checking service that I need to proof that I been living in this country since 2002 , I need some advise on how to proof to them that I been living in UK ?? Please and thank you.

[John]

This is actually quite a complicated area of law. So you arrived in the UK in 2001. Can I ask, at what stage did you apply for asylum? Was it as soon as you arrived in the UK? That is, you applied at the Port of Entry?

Or alternatively, did you come to the UK legally on a visa, and applied for asylum before that visa expired? Or after it expired?

Or did you arrive, for example, in the back of a lorry, and only applied for asylum some time after you got to the UK?

Please clarify which of those facts fits your circumstances.

As regards proving you were in the UK, do appreciate that it is a strict requirement that the applicant for Naturalisation (not married to or in civil partnership with a British Citizen) needs to show that they were in the UK exactly 5 years before BIA will receive the Naturalisation application. So turning the question back to you, what evidence can you produce to show that you were in the UK 5 years ago? Or I suspect that it might come down to this, what evidence can you produce to show that you have not left the UK since 2001 when you arrived in the UK? (If that is indeed the case!)

[hawaar]

I applied for asylum right when i entered UK through Dover I didn’t have any visa .. that was my main Question for the forum is how to provide my proof to them that i been living in this country for over 5 years ,, as i told you in the beginning that one of my proofs was that i have received NASS from 2001 until 2003 I have called NASS several times and they tell me that they can't give me NASS 35 ,, but unfortunately I cant proof that I’ve received NASS for that period of time because they are not giving me any papers to proof,,, I only got my old document that I received from them , and how am i suppose to proof?? and how am i suppose to proof to them when i didn’t have permission to work , so now I can’t provide them with my employment papers or the place that I have worked over the years,,
Thanks for advice

[Decus et Tutamen]

Surely, when you arrived at Dover , they will have taken your fingerprints? Just tell them to compare those with a freshly taken set.