I have seen a number of tweets in the last couple of days about a recent update to the Home Office's good character policy for naturalisation, which suggests that EU citizens who have been students or self-sufficient in the last ten years must have held comprehensive sickness insurance (CSI) or a European health insurance card in order to qualify for citizenship.
This is obviously very worrying for those of us who have applied/intended to apply on the basis of a 5-year qualifying period but have previously lived in the UK as students/self-sufficient without CSI.
-The following article discusses this update in more detail: It just got even more difficult for EU nationals to get British citizenship - Free Movement
-The updated good character policy can be found here: Link
EEA nationals' compliance with immigration requirements over the previous 10 years is discussed on pages 48 and 49.
Would one of the lawyers perhaps be able to take a look and share some thoughts? Based on the Home Office's past behaviour, do we know if applications that were made prior to this policy change and are currently being considered are likely to be affected?
(Please feel free to disregard this post if you feel it may cause unneccessary alarm; I just thought it might be good for people to know.)
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