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Your protection status

Your residence clock starts the day your status was granted. Time spent awaiting a decision, including Direct Provision, does not count.

Do you hold refugee status, subsidiary protection or permission to remain?

Your route to citizenship

  1. 1

    Protection granted

    Your qualifying start

  2. 2

    Residence clock

    Counts from the grant

  3. 3

    5 reckonable years

    Inside a 9-year window

  4. 4

    Apply

    With a gap-free final year

Confirm your protection status to start the residence clock.

You need a protection declaration to count residence.