As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check if you can apply for British citizenship.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the relevant British citizenship eligibility and application guidance on GOV.UK, and keep the pages available for comparison.
   2. Gather your passports, immigration status records, Home Office letters, travel history, residence evidence, English language evidence and Life in the UK evidence.
   3. Write a dated UK residence and absence timeline, marking any gaps, changes of immigration status, convictions, immigration breaches or uncertain travel dates.
   4. Paste the timeline and document list into a chatbot with the copyable prompt, replacing each bracketed slot with your own facts and leaving unknown items marked as unknown.
   5. Ask the chatbot to identify the possible route, missing evidence and questions for a solicitor, then open each GOV.UK link it cites and compare the wording with the current official guidance.
   6. Do not submit an application from the chatbot's conclusion; send the timeline, documents and unresolved questions to an immigration solicitor if the route, residence history, good character position or evidence is not straightforward.

   Prompt

   Help me make a preliminary checklist for whether I may be able to apply for British citizenship under the rules in force on 2026-08-13. This is not professional advice and you must not present the result as a legal decision.
   
   Use GOV.UK as the primary source and give a GOV.UK link for every important requirement. First identify which possible route appears relevant, such as naturalisation or registration, without assuming that route is correct. Then list the facts and documents needed to assess it, including nationality, immigration status, residence dates, absences from the UK, relationship or parentage details where relevant, English language evidence, Life in the UK evidence, good character issues, and any restrictions on the application route.
   
   My information:
   - Current nationality or nationalities: [insert]
   - Date and place of birth: [insert]
   - Current UK immigration status and dates held: [insert]
   - Dates I lived in the UK: [insert]
   - Time spent outside the UK, with dates if known: [insert]
   - Whether I have settled status or indefinite leave to remain: [insert]
   - Whether I am married to or the civil partner of a British citizen: [insert]
   - Parentage or registration details that may be relevant: [insert]
   - English language evidence: [insert]
   - Life in the UK test evidence: [insert]
   - Criminal convictions, immigration breaches or other good character concerns: [insert]
   - Any missing documents or uncertain dates: [insert]
   
   Separate the answer into: information that appears to support eligibility, information that is missing, issues that could prevent or delay an application, GOV.UK checks I can perform myself, and questions I should take to an immigration solicitor. Do not guess dates, invent facts, infer my immigration status, or say that I am definitely eligible. If the official guidance is unclear or my history is complicated, say that a solicitor must assess it.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.