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Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I couldn't find the information.

I am a Spanish citizen who has lived in the UK for 25 years, and is married to a British Citizen. I received EU Settled Status / ILR in May 2019, and I am a now applying for British naturalisation. I have most of the application form and documentation ready, but I am baffled by the requirement to have been physically present in the UK on the date the Home Office receives the application. I will meet the requirement if I submit the application in the next few months, but being a citizen of a EAA member state, I have never had my passport stamped when entering or leaving the country, so I do not see how I can prove that I was in the country on a particular date. What kind of documentation would be acceptable in this case?

Many thanks!

The requirement is to have been present in the UK on the date 5 years back from the application - you would prove that date as part of submitting evidence of residency (P60 or employer letters).

alterhase58 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:14 pm

The requirement is to have been present in the UK on the date 5 years back from the application - you would prove that date as part of submitting evidence of residency (P60 or employer letters).

Oh ok, I was over-complicating it then. That's great - thank you very much for the clarification!

It will also be evidenced in the section where you list all your absences from the UK, if you submit your application on a date when 5 years ago you were eaway on holiday, it may/will be rejected. This almost happened to me, I wanted to submit on 01 July, but on the 1st of July 5 years before I was going abroad for a month, so had to wait a month to submit the application.