British Citizenship

For us to submit a successful application for you, we ask that you are transparent with your personal life. We have a fantastic success rate in our naturalisation applications, and you can be rest assured that your application will be dealt in a fast and professional manner.

The requirements that you must meet are;

• You must be aged 18 or over.
• You must be of sound mind.
• You must intend to continue living in the UK, or to continue in Crown service, the service of an international organisation of which the UK is a member, or the service of a company or association established in the UK.
• You must be able to communicate in English, Welsh or Scottish Gaelic to an acceptable degree.
• You must have sufficient knowledge of life in the UK.
• You must be of good character.
• Have resided in the UK legally for 10 years

In order for you to become naturalised you must also meet the residential requirements that means that you have;

• been resident in the UK for at least five years (this is known as the residential qualifying period); and
• been present in the UK five years before the date of your application; and
• not spent more than 450 days outside the UK during the five-year period; and
• not spent more than 90 days outside the UK in the last 12 months of the five-year period; and
• not been in breach of the Immigration Rules at any stage during the ten-year period.

There are several other ways to be eligible for British Citizenship such as if you have British parent, you have another type of British nationality, you’re stateless or previously renounced your citizenship. Moreover, if you’re a commonwealth citizen such as through the Windrush scheme and you or of your parents arrived in the United Kingdom before 1973 and lived continuously here for the last two years. These are subject to other factors of course which we are happy to discuss with you should you consult with us.