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Hi all

I am an EU National, living in the UK for over 6 years. As I do work for the NHS I was able to apply earlier for the upcoming EU Settlement Scheme which will give EU Nationals the Indefinite Leave to Remain status.
I received my EU Settlement Status in December 2018 and my question is whether I can now apply straightway to British Citizenship or whether I have to wait for another year?

I read that EU Nationals acquire ILR status after 5 years and they have to 1) have a PR card (which is now the EU Settlement Status) and 2) wait another year.

Since I have lived in the UK for 6 years and I have received the Settlement Status now, does that count as 5+1?

Or those extra 12 months only start from the moment I received the letter EU Status?


Many thanks

BW

In the booklet on pages 10-11 it says the following:

For Document Certifying Permanent Residence: "We will use the date that you acquired permanent residence to consider your naturalisation application and not the date on which any document was issued."

For ILR given on the basis of EU Settlement Scheme: "If you have been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, including under the EU Settlement Scheme, and use that to support your application we will use the date you were granted ILR as the date that you became free of immigration time restrictions. If you acquired permanent residence before being granted indefinite leave to remain under the Settlement Scheme and want to rely on the date that you acquired permanent residence for your citizenship application, you will need to have a permanent residence document."

Therefore, you need to wait 1 year now.