Your starting point
Review your arrangements as your circumstances change. Keep a calendar of confirmed dates, and check which authorities need to hear from you.
Permanent residence and citizenship are distinct statuses with different conditions and consequences. Use the steps below to organise a decision, not to infer an official approval, a guaranteed price or a universal deadline.
Work through the decision
Define the goal
Clarify what you want to achieve and which status is relevant.
Check current law
Use AIMA or the competent nationality authority for requirements and applicable transitional rules.
Prepare a factual history
Organise residence, absences and supporting records for qualified assessment without assuming eligibility.
Adapt this to your circumstances
Keep citizenship, current residence, household needs and the location of the home separate in your notes. Ask the responsible authority, institution or qualified professional to confirm any requirement that affects your situation. A checklist used by another household may not apply to yours.
Sources and checks
AIMA — residence procedures — an official starting point for this topic. The relevant page, its scope and effective date must be checked before a consequential decision.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs — consular documentation. Follow the post competent for your current residence.
No market prices, eligibility thresholds or legal deadlines have been invented for this guide. Dates in personal planning tools are suggestions or values you supply.
Make it practical
Open the My Move Planner to keep the information you collect with your own assumptions, notes and next actions.
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