Request for advice on Citizenship.

[williamdog]

My Thai partner has lived legally in the UK for over three years but under five. She has been granted indefinite leave to remain and wishes to obtain British Citizenship.
We will marry in April this year and I'm trying to find out if she will be immediately eligible to apply, or will she have to wait until she has been here for three years as a married person?
She appears to satisfy all other requirements.
I have not found the UK Border Agency very helpful.
Any advice or comments would be most welcome.

[Tobias]

What is your nationality or immigration status?

[Vinny]

Can I be naturalised as a British citizen?

[williamdog]

What is your nationality or immigration status?

Hi Tobias,
I'm British.
Regards

[John]

williamdog, as soon as the marriage has happened, your wife (as she will be) will be entitled to apply for Naturalisation as British, as long as she was physically in the UK exactly 3 years before UKBA receive the Naturalisation application.

But just one point, given you have not said about her route to ILR, has she already passed the Life in the UK Citizenship test, or got a completion certificate from a combined ESOL/Citizenship course?

[williamdog]

williamdog, as soon as the marriage has happened, your wife (as she will be) will be entitled to apply for Naturalisation as British, as long as she was physically in the UK exactly 3 years before UKBA receive the Naturalisation application.

But just one point, given you have not said about her route to ILR, has she already passed the Life in the UK Citizenship test, or got a completion certificate from a combined ESOL/Citizenship course?

Hi John,
Very many thanks, I will now prepare the file, to be submitted immediately after the wedding. She has already passed her UK Citizenship test.
I will let you know the result in the fulness of time.
Again many thanks
regards