Hello everyone,
Can someone please help me with some advice. Here is my situation.
I am from an A8 country and came to the UK in 2007. I lived with my fiancé and had some savings, we were travelling a lot and I didn't start working until 2008. I then did some voluntary work and a few part time jobs with a couple of agencies, none was longer than 30 days, so I never applied for WRS. I became a student in 2008, and in Sep 2009 I got Residence Documentarion. On it it said that I have a right to work in the UK, so after that in never bothered applying for WRS, as I understood it replaced WRs for me. I got married in 2009 and worked since then in a permanent position.
Now I decided to apply for citizenship. I don't really need it as such, but thought it would be nice. Started filing in the form for a permanent residence card, and there are questions for WRS. Now I started reading more about it I'm getting more and more confused. Have I broken any laws? Am I going to be in trouble?
Will be grateful for any help.
Thanks
EDIT:
I was just checking my docs and remembered that I also worked from October 2008 to July 2009 in a part-time job. I remember calling to find out if I need a WRS and I was told that I didn't as I was a student, so I didn't apply. Now I started googling and on Wikipedia it says that students are indeed exempt, but I think this is false, as here:
https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manual ... l/ccm20110
It says that student who work do. need it (( so I think I was working illegally... not on purpose - I was misadvised
What do I do now? Do I explain it as it is in my application? Will I be given a fine? Will my application be refused? Or does none of this matter anyway, as I have been working for over 5 years now since WRS has been stopped?
I'm very confused
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