Sent here by a friend. I got my Indefinite Leave to Remain back in the mid-90s, when I only had to be here & married & not sponging off the state for a year, and it was free.
I have since been putting off getting citizenship. For 99.9% of my life it's irrelevant -as a Canadian I can vote. I can use the NHS and in theory claim benefits ( though in practice the fact that I have a partner who earns twice what I do makes that also irrelevant). The only difference is in which immigration queue I enter the country.
But. Current plans for world domination invoke moving to another EU country, necessitating EU citizenship. I have till now refused to take the test on the principle that it's full of factual errors, but I'm going to have to suck it up.
Mote worrying for me is the lack of documentation that I have to accompany the immigration form. A lot of that got list when my first marriage went down the toilet, I have no idea where my ex is (nor do I want to) and he probably burned it all anyway.
Also, when I was looking at the form I was out of work, and it asks a lot about job and income. So I'm not clear what stay at home spouses are supposed to do.
In theory there should be no case more straightforward than mine, but I'm still going to need a lawyer to walk me through it.
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I have since been putting off getting citizenship. For 99.9% of my life it's irrelevant -as a Canadian I can vote. I can use the NHS and in theory claim benefits ( though in practice the fact that I have a partner who earns twice what I do makes that also irrelevant). The only difference is in which immigration queue I enter the country.
But. Current plans for world domination invoke moving to another EU country, necessitating EU citizenship. I have till now refused to take the test on the principle that it's full of factual errors, but I'm going to have to suck it up.
Mote worrying for me is the lack of documentation that I have to accompany the immigration form. A lot of that got list when my first marriage went down the toilet, I have no idea where my ex is (nor do I want to) and he probably burned it all anyway.
Also, when I was looking at the form I was out of work, and it asks a lot about job and income. So I'm not clear what stay at home spouses are supposed to do.
In theory there should be no case more straightforward than mine, but I'm still going to need a lawyer to walk me through it.