get british citizenship

I’ve now been here for 4 years and have sucessfully got my “indefinate leave to remain” in my passport. So one more year and I can get citizenship

When I get back from Japan for work I will have to start the process of getting right of abode.. my visa runs out in March. So I thought while I have nothing better to do when I’m jetlagged and its 4am in the morning I would surf the web and find out what I needed to apply.

I was quite shocked to find out I need to prove I have ancestry again.. even though I did that to get my visa. This involves getting hold of my grandfather’s and father’s birth certificates (original not copied) and paying in excess of 300 pounds. Not happy Jan.. oh well the price one pays to have an extra thing in the passport and not to have to wait in the long immigration queue.