I parted with my passport today. I have trusted to royal mail to take my passport away so that I can apply for my British citizenship. They dont make it an easy job, this is what you have to do to become British.

You must have worked in the UK for 5 years and not have left the country for more than 3 months in any one year.

You must have held permanent residency for one year.

You must pass a “Life in the UK” test, which asks hard questions about parliament, the queen and other trivia even the British dont know the answers to.

You have to fill in an application form and specify every time you left the UK in the last 5 years. You know how much travel I do!

You then send this information to a third party and pay them £1000 to make the application for you.

Then in about 6-12 months time your application is processed. If your application is successful you then have to attend a citizenship ceremony. I’m not sure how long it takes to get a British passport once you have become a citizen.

Anyway, this should make it all worthwhile having dual nationality. I can work anywhere in the EU and I’ll have two passports!