Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 19th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in line with former Foreign and Commonwealth Office policy, non-UK nationals formerly employed by the Department for International Development and now working for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will have the combined time spent serving in both the UK and overseas counted as being ordinarily resident in the UK in support of applications for UK citizenship.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 24th November 2020

The requirements for naturalisation as a British citizen are based on a period of residence in the United Kingdom. UK Visas and Immigration would normally consider exercising some discretion over excess absences where a person had established their home, employment, family and finances in the UK, and the excess absences were the result of postings abroad in Crown service, or in accompanying a British citizen spouse or civil partner on an appointment overseas. This applies to all permanent and established Crown servants, irrespective of their department.

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