Permanent Residency - Comprehensive Sickness Insurance

[Danik7147]

Hi Everyone,

I came to the UK in October 2010 as a student. In my final year of Uni, starting November 2012, I held a job with my Uni whilst studying and once I graduated and left my Uni job, I've held continuous employment.

I'm currently looking to get PR so I can then apply for Naturalization. I've just started the online version of the application and have come across the CSI requirement. As a lot of other people have experienced, I was never notified to a CSI requirement as a student - in fact, I was told the opposite.

My questions are as follow:
-Will the fact that I never held CSI completely disqualify me from getting PR?
-If not, when could I apply? Once it's been 5 years since my graduation? OR will I be able to apply in November 2017, once I've had employment for a full 5 years?

Your help would be very much appreciated! I'm quite worried about this issue - I can see that the CSI wasn't fully enforced until 2011, when I'd already been in the UK for about a year!

[tmonaghan]

Article 7 of 2004/EC/38

Right of residence for more than three months

1. All Union citizens shall have the right of residence on the territory of another Member State for a period of longer than three months if they:
(a)
are workers or self-employed persons in the host Member State; or
(b)
have sufficient resources for themselves and their family members not to become a burden on the social assistance system of the host Member State during their period of residence and have comprehensive sickness insurance cover in the host Member State; or
(c)
—
are enrolled at a private or public establishment, accredited or financed by the host Member State on the basis of its legislation or administrative practice, for the principal purpose of following a course of study, including vocational training; and
—
have comprehensive sickness insurance cover in the host Member State and assure the relevant national authority, by means of a declaration or by such equivalent means as they may choose, that they have sufficient resources for themselves and their family members not to become a burden on the social assistance system of the host Member State during their period of residence; or
(d)
are family members accompanying or joining a Union citizen who satisfies the conditions referred to in points (a), (b) or (c).

[Richard W]

My questions are as follow:
-Will the fact that I never held CSI completely disqualify me from getting PR?
-If not, when could I apply? Once it's been 5 years since my graduation? OR will I be able to apply in November 2017, once I've had employment for a full 5 years?

If you were both a student and a worker, you may qualify by being a worker regardless of whether you were a student. It does depend on how significant the work was, and if you weren't working during term time, then it won't count.