Casa,

Thank you for the advice. I will focus now on clearing the debt first by getting job. Maybe in 2 years down the line, I will apply for Naturalization.

No it was ILR, because at that time, I did not have Austrian Passport. (originally from Kazakh). Thanks!

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I applied for ILR then as I needed British citizenship. But I never envisaged my work situation would turn out bad and in the process I ran into debt (partly due to bad decisions). I regret what I did, but I have always kept the banks/creditors in the loop. I have only got 2500 GBP in the bank since ...

thank you noajthan. I don't have any ccj's so far, as I have been honest to all the lendors about my situation. But I guess I will wait until I start paying off, soon after I start working. My only problem is, given the size of my debt, it will take me years and years to pay it off. So I was ...

Hello Everybody, I'm Mansur. I came to UK in Oct 2009 as a researcher for a small company in Leeds. I got my ILR approved in August 2014. I left the company imediately because I felt I was treated bad there (modern day slavery). I left for my home country in Austria from September 2014 and I ...