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Articoli Correlati: U.K. - British citizenship - permanent residence

The Home Office has updated the list of requirements necessary to obtain British citizenship, clarifying that those who want to naturalize on the basis of settled status, will have to prove that they have resided legally in the United Kingdom in the previous five years, i.e. having permanent residence. To obtain permanent residence, students and economically self-sufficient people must prove that they have funds at their disposal that do not need to ask for benefits, and that they have private health insurance, or the European insurance card issued by their country of origin (and not from the UK).
The application for settled status, instead, requires only physical presence in the country for five consecutive years, and is therefore a much simpler way to obtain indefinite leave to remain. Many Europeans don’t even know that their U.K. residence may not have been legal, as the absence of this right has never led to any consequences. We can think, for example, of students or people who have not worked for all or part of the five-year period necessary to mature the right to obtain a permanent residence permit, will have to prove that they have had health insurance.