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Hello

I am currently waiting to hear back from HO about my permanent residence application. I am planning to go to do work placement and part time studying for 12 months in New York next year and I was wondering, when I return after those 12 months back to London, the fact that I will be out of UK for 12 months would affect my application for naturalisation if HO replies to me that I have been successful in my permanent residence application?

I am EU citizen. I know that there is a time limit how long you can reside abroad to be still eligible for either naturalisation and permanent residence I do not remember exactly how many months or years.

DaisyChloe wrote:Hello

I am currently waiting to hear back from HO about my permanent residence application. I am planning to go to do work placement and part time studying for 12 months in New York next year and I was wondering, when I return after those 12 months back to London, the fact that I will be out of UK for 12 months would affect my application for naturalisation if HO replies to me that I have been successful in my permanent residence application?

I am EU citizen. I know that there is a time limit how long you can reside abroad to be still eligible for either naturalisation and permanent residence I do not remember exactly how many months or years.

You'll have a blast in NY - give my regards to Broadway.
But 12 months out will kill your ambitions for citizenship (for a while).

if you've not taken the drastic step of marrying a BC you need to hold PR for 12 months &, in the last 12 months before applying for the privilege of citizenship, the absence limit is 90 days; (it's 450 days overall in 5 years).

There is some discretion that can be applied here - but not that much!

Also make sure you can prove you were physically present in UK 5 years (to the day) before date of your naturalisation application.

See relevant HO guide, Section 5 (page 7+):
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... r_2015.pdf