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Blacky
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Driving offence and Naturalization

Post by Blacky » Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:57 pm

Hi. I applied for citizenship and at time I had a driving offence of reversing a vehicle 3 meters while over the recommended alcohol limit . I go 7points on my license and no ban . My citizenship application was refused to re apply in 3yrs time . Within 3 months after my application got refused , I then I received a 14 months driving ban for drink drive. I took the course and my ban was reduced to 12 months . The home office also mentioned on my refusal letter that they can see the impending driving offence prosecution and the outcome might affect future application . My question is . Can I apply after 3 years from my driving ban date and not the previous that I had 7point for or there is a further wait period due to the driving ban. Hoping I can get some advise on this . Thanks

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Re: Driving offence and Naturalization

Post by Zerubbabel » Fri May 01, 2020 5:15 pm

Hello

A friend of mine is a cop. Last time he controlled a driver for DUI, it's because the driver in question stopped at a petrol station, walked to the pump and fell on his face there. Driving in the UK, in the last 10 years, I have been stopped just once because I was driving a newly registered car and the insurance who which I signed up the day before wasn't the police system yet.

We know that police in the UK are not going around checking on every driver if he or she is under the legal limit. If you have been stopped twice and at both occasions we were above the limit, it strongly suggests that you always/often drive above the limit.

Please check this web link. There are some resources to deal with alcohol. You will go nowhere without sorting this issue out:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/

As for the citizenship, you are applying under a regime where the Secretary of State is almighty. He has discretionary power and you have nothing. If you keep getting in trouble for DUI, you will be seen a persistent offender:

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When you enter this category, you can not longer think in terms of "how long since the last offence?" or "how serious was the last offence?". They will look at your "career" as whole and you may be declined citizenship even if each offence taken in isolation wouldn't have been serious enough to justify that.

You can read the entire guidance here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... idance.pdf

This post answers questions about character requirements:
british-citizenship/british-citizenship ... 05532.html

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Re: Driving offence and Naturalization

Post by Blacky » Sat May 02, 2020 7:30 am

Hi thanks for your reply. So I shouldn’t bother applying as I haven’t had any incident in over 3 years now and I have dealt with alcohol issue . Thanks for replying.

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