Hi all,

My wife's friend has her ILR visa and is married to a UK national but has recently split up with him and divorce preceeding will start soon (Both were at fault), what my wife's friend asked me is, can she apply for a UK passport alone or does she need her husband to go with her?

Many thanks

Brigante7.

Edited September 26, 200916 yr by Brigante7

Application for naturalisation as a British citizen precedes any such for a passport, but presumably that is what you mean. Assuming she has fulfilled the 3-year qualification, she can apply as long as she is still married to her husband at the time of the application.

Otherwise she waits a further 2 years until she has qualified in her own right.

Also, if she obtained her ILR before the introduction of the KOL requirement then she will need to satisfy this in order to apply for citizenship.

My wife's friend finished an ESOL course with citizenship to obtain her ILR and I understand that she has to obtain citizenship before she can obtain a UK passport. She has fulfiled the 3 year qualification period but was worried she would have to apply for first citizenship then a UK passport with her husband actualy being there but as long as she is legally still married then that is great, I'll pass it on to her.

Many thanks

Brigante7.