Life in the UK Test

With the growing immigration in Europe, many are the ones that decide to naturalise. Naturalization to become a UK Citizen can be a long proccess and since the 1st of November of the year 2005, before you submit an application for citizenship, you additionally must pass the UK government's new Life in the UK citizenship test. Once you received your certification confirming that you have got at least 75% of the questions right and therefore passed the life in the UK test, applicants still have to send your documentation and wait for around six months for their application to be proccessed and then they have a final interview to get your British passport.

There are schools and sites that help you prepare for the exam and that can help you succeed with your application! In the event you are not married to a Brit Citizen you'll need to fulfill the following conditions:

- You need to be aged 18 or over and not be of unsound mind.


- You have to be of great character.

- You need to have the ability to speak in the English language (or Welsh or Scottish Gaelic). Exemptions to this condition are for example if the applicant is aged or emotionally disabled.


- In addition the candidate should have satisfied the six-year condition of living in the UK.


You need to have had indefinite leave to stay (sometimes also called permanent residency or ILR) to have the capacity to apply for naturalization.
The processing times for naturalisation uses is now about six to seven months.

You need to have been residing in the Uk at the start of the six-year span; and
during the previous 12 months of the six-year period you mustn't have been for more than 90 days out of the country. During the past 12 months of the six-year span your stay in the United kingdom should have held permanent residency/ indefinite leave to remain (ILR).

Furthermore, you should not have been residing in the United Kingdom in violation of UK immigration rules at any given time during the six-year interval ending with all the date that the Home Office receives the application.


The conditions for naturalisation as a partner of a British citizen are much the same to those mentioned previously. The key difference is because there's a shorter residency requirement of 3 years in britain instead of 6 years. The three years of the residency condition are counted from the exact date the Home Office receives your naturalisation application.