Maizie, sorry to hear you have this problem and I don't want to add to your problems but your aunt is committing a crime. It's called benefit fraud. She has to declare any income to the Department for Work and Pensions, from which she is getting disability benefits, which she obviously hasn't. This ...

Well folks - feel much, much better now. Just spoke to the Home Office and they say that the IVA has absolutely no influence on our Naturalisation/Citizenship application at all. It is not a civil case as we have not been declared bankrupt and so everything is fine. What a relief! Thanks to everyone...

Thanks Melanie
I am really clueless about all of this. The sunn is slowly beginning to dawn.

Thanks for the helpful replies. I thought that the IVA was a CCJ (sorry to be so dumb). What did my IP have to go to court for? Wasn't that for civil action?

Will being in in an IVA affect applying for Naturalisation/Citizenship? It states that if you have any civil cases against you it will be rejected. Having my name on the Insolvency register puts my debt problem in the public domain. Do I have a civil case against me which is open? We were not told t...