2016 June 2017 In June, 28,502 citizens of the European Union (EU) provided citizenship applications for the United Kingdom (UK).

The number of German, Italian and French citizens wishing to become a UK citizen has increased three times, and Poles are among the most desiring UK citizens.

2016 In June, the citizenship of the UK was 797 German citizens, and in 2017, The number of Italians wishing to become UK citizens has increased from 1 109 to 2 950 during the same period and from 500 to 1,400 in Spanish.

Half of all applications for UK citizenship have been made on the basis of the criterion of the country of residence, and 6 389 applications are filed on behalf of minors (the number of young people seeking UK nationality is more than twice as high as in 2014-2015).

During all of 2017 38 528 EU citizens applied for the UK citizenship, or 2.5 times more than in 2016, when the number of such applications was 15,460.

As the UK pulls out of the EU, more and more EU citizens in the country are seeking citizenship through marriages with UK citizens – the number of applications for citizenship through marriage reached 4 342 and more than doubled in comparison with 2014-2015.

Under the current regime, an EU citizen married to a UK citizen may apply for UK citizenship after 3 years of residence in a country not married to a UK citizen – after 5 years of residence. The cost of naturalization is 1 282 pounds.

Last 2017 years

According to the UK Ministry of the Interior, in 2017, 168,913 permanent resident documents were issued. For comparison, in 2016 such documents were issued 65 068.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (ONS), the largest groups of EU citizens residing in the UK are Poles (907,000), Germans (299,000), Italians (220,000), French (164,000), and Spaniards (157,000).