Meghan Markle, after her departure from the United Kingdom in 2020, in the so-called Megxit with her husband, Prince Harry, at least for now has lost the opportunity to apply for British citizenship, a process for which you must reside on the island for three years
The American-born Duchess of Sussex intended to become British after marrying the member of the Royals in May 2018, at Windsor Castle. However, Meghan Markle he missed the legal deadlines to have the right to apply for the passport of the island nation.
Meghan Markle, who moved to the island in November 2017, could have started the process of requesting nationality two months ago, when she was three years old in that European country, but her intention to leave her place as a British royal with her husband stopped it. everything.
According to the Daily Mail, in that period the actress should not spend more than 270 days outside in the territory of the United Kingdom, a requirement that she failed to comply with after moving to the American continent, where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and her son Archi currently resist. in Santa Barbara like California, in his mansion valued at 14 million dollars.
In addition, in the 12 months after making the request, you should not be outside the United Kingdom for more than 90 days, which was not fulfilled in the case of the 39-year-old Californian.
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“Now, any future application would be delayed and would involve a return to the UK,” noted the English newspaper.
In December 2017, Prince Harry’s Communications Secretary Jason Knauf told the BBC that Meghan would comply with immigration requirements.
“I can also say that she intends to become a citizen of the UK and will go through that process, which some of you know takes several years,” she added then,
In May 2018, the Duchess obtained permanent resident status by marrying Prince Charles’ second son, first in the line of succession to the British crown.
However, Megan will have to wait to meet the period of three if she wants to apply to be British.
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