My Citizenship Journey

Avenged7Fold said:
I am in a similar-ish position. My father is Oriental and my mother Italian. When i was young I was on my fathers diplomatic passport until i was old enough to have my own and then had Italian passport when my fathers diplomatic passport expired.

I am a little confused as to what situation i will be in if we do go out of the EU despite spending all my life here.
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If you've been here all that time I wouldn't see why you wouldn't be allowed to stay to be honest. My ex is bulgarian and shes just put in her citizenship here and I'm one of her referee's due to my job. Shes in the same position as shes worried her training as a solicitor might be effected by us leaving the EU.
 
Freefaller said:
I like having both - besides do you want to give up on your rights to vote on things in France? Or do you have nothing left in France at all?

I still have things in France which I'd like to be able to make a decision on and be able to exercise my rights.

Did you do national service? I wonder how it affects things if at all.
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No real close family; bunch of friends but they can come here, and we skype a lot... And I never voted in my life anyway...

I did national service in 1989 (wow, dates back!!). I saw no mention of it mattering in anyway, it's not like I had a choice after all, and quite frankly, national service was more about being cheap manpower than anything else...
 
No one would be kicked out of the country if we left the EU, especially people who'd lived here all their life. Plainly that would be ridiculous and any sane Out voter would be against it.
 
BusError said:
No real close family; bunch of friends but they can come here, and we skype a lot... And I never voted in my life anyway...

I did national service in 1989 (wow, dates back!!). I saw no mention of it mattering in anyway, it's not like I had a choice after all, and quite frankly, national service was more about being cheap manpower than anything else...
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Still you might as well keep dual nationality if you can no?

Personally I'd find it really hard to give it up - but perhaps I have more links to family and life in France still? I can completely understand if you have nothing left based there and if it no longer feels like a home from home. :)

I was born just before the cut off - still, it was an interesting experience!
 
Burnsy2023 said:
So I posted all the paperwork to the Home Office today via Special Delivery.

I included the £913 admin fee payment slip, but for those pondering doing anything immigration related, the fees are going up as of April. For me, that would increase the charge to £1121 which is quite a hike.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-immigration-and-nationality-fees-for-2016-to-2017
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That's quite the money spinner for the government. I think my missus will leave the work visa. If her work wants her to have one, they will pay for it.
 
Bickaxe said:
That's quite the money spinner for the government. I think my missus will leave the work visa. If her work wants her to have one, they will pay for it.
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It used to be nearly free, but they've been putting the fees up more and more.

I don't really know what they're using that money to fund, but certainly the cost of doing the application processing didn't rise 600+% in 10 years. It's certainly being used to run other Home Office tasks.

I was pretty happy on indefinitely leave to remain, but the cost of transferring a stamp from old passport to new passport was more than applying for citizenship.
 
mjt said:
I'm British but haven't lived in the UK for years. I hadn't actually thought of the implications of the UK leaving the EU on my EU rights until now. Getting Belgian citizenship will be a doddle but it's not something I'd considered as I don't particularly want it. Damn you eurosceptics!
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it could have big impact on british people working throughout the eu

what would happen if they had to implement a visa program for uk citizens to work abroad as we were outside the eu?
 
First letter of many:

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It took less than 4 weeks for my American wife to be naturalised last year (she's been eligible since 2003). Although you will not receive an official certificate of naturalisation until you attend a swearing in ceremony with a bunch of other new citizens. You’ll receive the signed certificate on the day.

Lemon cake and tea was served afterwards. I also earned double points for squeezing into a suit and not grimacing.

EDIT - In fact it took the entirety of 5 days from submission to receiving a letter stating application was successful. It took a few weeks to arrange the appointment for the swearing in ceremony.

Home Office is shock ninja responder/approval skills.

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darkgen said:
It took less than 4 weeks for my American wife to be naturalised last year (she's been eligible since 2003). Although you will not receive an official certificate of naturalisation until you attend a swearing in ceremony with a bunch of other new citizens. You’ll receive the signed certificate on the day.

Lemon cake and tea was served afterwards. I also earned double points for squeezing into a suit and not grimacing.
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That's a fast turn around. When was that last year?
 
Aye. To be fair there was nothing to contest on the application itself as all eligibility criteria had been met. Agree it's still an insanely quick turnaround.

To be fair all interactions with the home office have been slick and I cannot real find fault. Case in point, I'm just about to leave for Victoria shortly so she can attend the interview for her first British passport. This process has been a little longer but still only around the 6 week mark thus far!
 
When I did mine in 2005, it was about 10 months. After about 8 months, I received a letter saying that somebody is processing my application...

Edit: Typoed on the year
 
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