I thought you had to have ILR for 1 year before applying for citizenship.
There are 2 different eligibility criteria for citizenship: one for those who are married to U.K. citizens and one for those who aren’t.
If he is married to a U.K. citizen he simply has to hold ILR (for any length of time).
If he is not married to a U.K. citizen he must hold ILR for 12 months before applying for citizenship.
He's been in the country with me since 2016 and only left the country to go on holiday, we've been on about 7 holidays in total since then, so about 7-8 weeks out of the country. Which I think meets the criteria?
He can have been out of the country for up to 9 months in total in the last 3 years.
So the residency requirements for citizenship when you are married to a UK citizen are:
- you hold ILR (for any length of time)
- you were physically in the UK exactly 3 years prior to your citizenship application date
- you have not been outside the UK for more than 270 days in the last 3 years
- no more than 90 of those days can have been in the final 12 months before applying
When calculating days outside the UK you do not count the day you left or the day you returned to the UK.
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