Interesting edge case: my child was born here before we got ILR. Not born a citizen. If we had ILR then, they would’ve been. We have ILR now, making them instantly eligible. Their citizenship application, in progress, is not called “naturalisation” but “recognition.”

February 15, 2026 - 14:27 UTC

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A colleague who came here 5 months before her country's accession to the EU, went back home, returned here after accession, was denied a British passport for her son because she could not provide documents to prove the date of second arrival.
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Jfc
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My sister in law is a Chinese ethnic ex-Canadian, now British.
One Christmas we did the Knowledge of Britain Test (or whatever it's called) as a game. She scored 100%, the rest of her British* family failed on some questions.🙃

*I've a UK passport, born in UK, but I put White//Irish on surveys.
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The Life in the UK test is both very easy and very silly. Not as silly as the practice questions you'll find online, but I don't think it is a good test of either Britishness or understanding of Britain
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They have a list of 100 questions and each test offers a random selection of 20, but you have to memorise all 100 stupid answers. Including 3 about Scottish history and ditto Wales, and they had a real problem finding enough questions about Welsh history.
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Same here (but I admit I am being slow to fill all the documents).
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We were slow, too, but sped up when the conservatives started making scary noise last fall, plus fear that the current government would extend the ILR to citizenship period.
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imho if we're moving from physical biometric cards to online status, ukgov should issue a passport automatically at naturalisation and eat the cost. due to requirements (and the online bit being broken), my wife couldn't work for 12+ months bc she couldn't get a passport and couldn't be ID'd either
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