Apply for citizenship with PR or Settled Status?

[doctorgo]

I'm an EU national eligible (work for HE institution) to apply for my permanent residence under the Pilot EU Settlement Scheme (Pilot started in Nov to selected professions and will open to everyone from Mar-19).

The process looks 20x easier than the normal permanent residence application and doesn't require sending a billion of proofs that I've actually lived here for 5 years. Instead it checks my national insurance against HMRC database. The approval should also be days rather than weeks. Now the main question that I have for the people who applied for citizenship online: is the citizenship application meant to accept the new approved settled persons under this Pilot or only under the PR system?

[alterhase58]

I'm an EU national eligible (work for HE institution) to apply for my permanent residence under the Pilot EU Settlement Scheme (Pilot started in Nov to selected professions and will open to everyone from Mar-19).

The process looks 20x easier than the normal permanent residence application and doesn't require sending a billion of proofs that I've actually lived here for 5 years. Instead it checks my national insurance against HMRC database. The approval should also be days rather than weeks. Now the main question that I have for the people who applied for citizenship online: is the citizenship application meant to accept the new approved settled persons under this Pilot or only under the PR system?

In theory it's just another form of ILR, i.e. proof you are free from immigration restrictions. But the instructions for AN applications haven't been updated. If you can get a printed confirmation from the system then presumably it should be ok if you comply with everything else. However, we need something official to confirm this.