Quote Originally Posted by CMP_5.56 View Post

So I ask others that choose to come and stay here, but not become a citizen, why not? To me the only thing I can think of is wanting the rights, freedoms, and privileges of being a citizen without the responsibilities. Not too mention an easy exit out of this country in the event things don't go there way.
My mother-in-law is Danish, and has lived in this country for about fifty years. She's still a permanent resident and although I can only speculate as to her reasons for remaining so before I married her daughter, her reason while I have known her is because Denmark prohibits dual citizenship and she wanted to retain that connection with her former home.

I can understand her point of view: I love living here and can't ever imagine moving back to the UK, but it is where I was born and raised and if dual citizenship wasn't an option for me then I probably wouldn't have considered citizenship at least until my parents were no longer around.

As for the idea of dodging responsibilities of citizenship, as a PR I paid taxes every year and would have willingly served this country in whatever capacity I could during a crisis (I suppose unless I'd been interned during the full scale invasion that Queen Elizabeth and David Cameron have been planning for 2012... but I've said too much!).

Other than serving on a jury or voting (which I would consider a privilege as well as a responsibility, so the disadvantage for me would outweigh the benefit) I'm not sure what other responsibilities I would have been avoiding.