UK immigration changes : comments [S. Worthen

although i thought the reverse _is_ true: to apply for citizenship, one _must_ have ILR?

I hadn't thought it was, but I think you are mostly right.

From "Naturalisation as a British Citizen":

in the last 12 months of that five-year period, his or her stay in the United Kingdom was not subject to any time limit under the immigration laws

I say mostly right since I suspect there are a number of a major exceptions: EU nationals, for example, wouldn't have time limitations on their residency, would they?

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i dont think so, but then i dont think they need work visas either.

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They don't, although how they then implement some of the eastern European country quotas without visas confuses me. Or rather, I am in ignorance over how that's enforced.

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isnt most of E Europe in the EU?

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Yes, but there are transitional arrangements connected with the labour mobility clauses of the treaty. In effect, existing members can restrict immigration from the new members for the first few years of their membership.

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I would suspect that you do have to have ILR, because CLR is limited to a period of time that you would have to exceed in order to become a citizen, so far as I know.

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