Hello, I'm an EEA German citizen and citizen of Argentina, I have both passports I also have the UK permanent residency documents and since Jan 2016. I would like to apply for the British Citizenship however back in July 2016, I left the UK to Austria, this is temporary and I should return to my life in the UK in 2019. I'm a freelancer and I pay all my taxes in the UK. I have my bank in the UK, my investment UK account etc. I do everything I did when I was in the UK but from a different country at the moment.
Backstory:
I returned to the UK in December 2016, and I stayed in the UK until the end of May 2017. I requested my SAR in January and it showed that I had left the UK in July 2016 and returned in December 2016. So I was worried I might have lost my application fee If I had submitted my request to become a UK citizen at that time because I was away for over 90 day within the last 12 months and it showed on the SAR paper. So in the end of May, I left the UK via Dublin, flying from London to Belfast (no IDs were checked during this journey), then I drove to Dublin and left to Austria on my Argentinian passport. I did this so I could avoid being tracked by the UK border and be able to apply to become a citizen.
I'm planning to return to apply for the citizenship in May next year, maybe earlier.
I would like to know if Dublin shares landing and departure cards with the UK? So when I request a new SAR, will the UK know I left from Dublin to Austria?
Kind regards,
Ed
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