After nearly 39 years of marriage I am finally married to a POM!!! DH was persuaded to apply for citizenship through his mother being born in UK and today he got his letter of approval. Citizenship ceremony in April. To say I am over the moon is an understatement - it makes our living in UK so much easier. Thank you M-i-L for having the good sense to be born in UK!!!!!

Good for him, at least now he can go back and forth and no visas needed Plus he can now officially whinge while in OZ only.

When I saw the thread title, I thought maybe you'd traded in the old banger for a new model.

Thank God he finally realised he really is in the lucky country.

LOL, nah, I'm too old to train up a new model! The thought had crossed my mind once or twice over the past decade though

A convert to the cause. Good on yer Quoll it does look like you have suceeded. Now if ever you decided Cambridge wasn't the full deal and wanted to return to Canberra, it may entail leaving the old boy behind.Something you neglected to give due consideration no doubt?

Wait until he's had the ceremony and then on the way home ask him if he realises he'll have to reliquish his Aussie passport.. Should be good for a laugh

Had thought about that LOL but he knows you can have both as the boys and I all do!!!!

The chances of me falling out with Cambridge are somewhere between slim and none!!! Now all I have to do is warm the soil up a bit so he can get into the garden without freezing his fingers off and all will be well! Once he sees the garlic and lettuces growing I figure I have a better than even chance of persuading him that this is the place to be!

Get him a green house with a heater, he'll be in gardening heaven.

Congrats quoll! You two should plan a lovely holiday to celebrate, just so you can get that great feeling of handing over the new passport upon re-entry

Congratulations quoll! DH too

May I please ask, how long did it take, from initial application of UKM, to your DH receiving his letter of approval? And did he apply from the UK?

My US DH is also going to apply for UK citizenship via his English mum but since we've been here in the US for 20 years we're worried it'll take ages and ages for them to complete any checks they may want to do. We've been told it can take 6 months and sometimes much longer, even, than that! Now that we've decided we're going home 6+ months is going to feel like an entire lifetime!

We submitted here in UK and went through the local Nationality Checking Service which meant he could hold on to all his documents - he was worried about being without his passport for any length of time. The wait for that appointment was 3 weeks and then we got the approval in exactly 3 months (to the day!) from the NCS appointment. His ceremony will be in mid April (they give you 90 days to get the ceremony organized after the letter of approval).

It was a simple enough process but just a bit anxious making, having to wait for that length of time - I think it would normally have been a bit quicker but the NCS lady told us there was a real rush on the service over Christmas which was quite uncharacteristic. You may find that overseas processing is actually quicker!

We did have references from professional UK passport holders who had known him for decades so dont know if that was a help or not.

Good luck!

Congrats

Thanks for all your insight quoll Hopefully we shall have a timeline closer to your husband's, rather than the 6+ months we've been told!

Ive been following your story on BE for a few years, but had not been on for 12 mths. What a surprise when I logged on and found you had finally gone
All the best for the future.