Belong United Kingdom, Terms and Conditions
These terms are the agreement between you and Belong Europe ApS for the use of Belong UK. By downloading or using the app you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.
Who we are
Belong UK is made by Belong Europe ApS, a company registered in Copenhagen, Denmark, CVR number 46649044, reachable at hello@belongeurope.com.
What Belong UK is
Belong UK is a personal tracker. It helps you see your own distance to Indefinite Leave to Remain and British citizenship by organising the information you enter against published rules, and by showing honestly which part of the journey you control and which part you do not. Everything you enter stays on your device.
It comes in two versions, an iPhone app and an Android app. They work the same way and neither has an account.
On the iPhone you can also enter a trip dated ahead. A planned trip is kept apart, marked as planned, and counts for nothing until it has started: the figures in the trip sheet run the real rules on a copy that includes it, and like What if they are an illustration, not a prediction. Once the trip has happened, check its dates, because the app counts what you entered, not where you were.
Belong UK is not legal advice
Belong UK is an information tool, not a lawyer and not an authority. Nationality law changes, administrative practice varies, and this app may contain errors or be out of date. Nothing here creates any right, decides anything, or binds any authority.
Verify your own situation with the body that actually decides it: the Home Office, through UK Visas and Immigration, and the official rules and guidance published on GOV.UK. The UK government has also announced settlement reforms that are not yet law; this app tracks the rules in force, which can change. You use Belong UK at your own risk, and decisions about your file remain yours.
Practice is practice, not the exam
The questions in the Practice tab are written by Belong Europe from the chapters of the official handbook, Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents. They are not the Home Office’s questions, they are not endorsed by it, and they can contain mistakes. There are 464 of them, across the handbook’s five chapters.
The real sitting is 24 questions in 45 minutes, four options each, with 18 correct to pass, and nothing in it is set regionally. A full mock here runs the same 24 questions in the same 45 minutes. The Home Office publishes no split of those 24 across the handbook’s chapters, so none is claimed: the mock spreads across the chapters in proportion to what this app carries, because a weighting invented here would teach you to study the wrong balance. A good score in a mock is not a pass, and passing the Life in the UK test does not replace the separate English language proof.
Today’s five, the schedule that decides when a question comes back and the run of days it keeps are a study aid. The run counts days on which you practised and nothing else: it is not progress toward settlement or citizenship, it is not an assessment, and no authority sees it or takes it into account. A sitting date you add is one you enter yourself, and the countdown to it is only as right as the date you put in: the test centre that runs the sitting sets the real one.
A second person on your phone
On the iPhone you can add a second adult and keep their count next to yours. Enter another person’s details only with their agreement, and only for an adult: Belong UK is not for tracking children. Everything said on this page about your own count applies to theirs. It is a tracker, not legal advice, its figures bind no authority, and what you enter about them is your responsibility. Practice, documents, reminders and widgets stay with the phone’s owner; a second person gets a count, not a second copy of the app. A trip logged for both of you is one entry read against each person’s own situation, so check its dates for both.
After you apply
Once you tell the app you have applied, the Dashboard follows the wait from the filing date you entered. The day count is arithmetic on that date, and the updates and reply windows it shows are the ones you logged, not anything received from the Home Office. No law sets a deadline for a decision on a citizenship application; GOV.UK says a decision usually comes within 6 months, which is a service standard, so the app shows no expected date and gives no estimate. A reply window is the date you read from the letter and typed in; meeting it remains yours. The letters you receive are the record of your case. The app is not.
Booking the test, and the guides
The Practice tab says how the Life in the UK test is booked and lists no sittings, because there is no national calendar. The guides are a dated reading of GOV.UK and the Immigration Rules, written by Belong Europe. The Home Office changes fees and rules, and an app update is the only way a change reaches your phone. The test is booked on the official booking service, never in the app: the app reminds, it does not book, and a reminder that does not arrive does not move a deadline. Check GOV.UK before you book, travel or pay.
Widgets
On the iPhone, a home screen or Lock Screen widget shows what the app held when the widget last refreshed. The system decides when that is, so a widget can lag behind the app by hours, and longer if your phone is short of power or you have not opened the app in a while. Where a widget and the app disagree, the app is right. A widget is a glance, not a record, and nothing it shows binds any authority.
Passport facts
The Passport tab shows facts about the British passport (validity, fee, where to apply and dual citizenship), taken from the issuing authority’s own published pages on the date shown in the app. Fees and rules change, and nothing on that tab binds any authority: check with the issuing authority before you book or pay. The cover shown is an illustration, the holder name and any photo are ones you added yourself, and none of it is a travel document or proof of anything. The notes on the passport’s design are descriptive only, and the line under the cover saying when you could apply restates the app’s own estimate. It is not a decision date and not advice.
What if is a sandbox
The What if feature runs the same rules on a hypothetical copy of your situation so you can see how a decision would move your finish line. It is an illustration, not a prediction, not a promise, and not a commitment by any authority. Nothing you try in it is saved.
Documents you attach
You choose what to attach on the Path tab, and what you attach is your responsibility. We do not read, verify, validate or store your documents, and attaching one does not satisfy a requirement or prove anything to anyone. Only the authority deciding your case can do that. The count of requirements that carry a document is a count of attachments, nothing more.
Belong UK is not a backup service. Documents live only on the phone you added them on. If you remove one, delete the app, or lose or replace the device, it is gone and we cannot recover it, because we never had it. Your own device backup will not save it either: documents are deliberately kept out of that backup, so restoring a new phone does not bring them back. Keep your own copies of anything that matters.
Dates, reminders and alerts
What’s coming lists dates worked out from what you have entered and from rules the authorities have published. A date shown as the earliest possible one is a projection, not a commitment: rules change, calendars change, and nothing shown here binds any authority.
Alerts for those dates are local notifications scheduled on your device and delivered by the operating system at its discretion. They can arrive late, be held back by your system settings, a Focus mode or Low Power Mode, or not arrive at all, and they stop if you turn notifications off. Do not rely on them as your only reminder. Meeting a registration window, a renewal or any other deadline remains yours.
News comes from GOV.UK
The News segment shows headlines and summaries from two official GOV.UK feeds. We do not write them, we do not verify them, and we do not control what is published or how long it stays available. Nothing in that feed is legal advice, and a story is not a change in the rules until the rules themselves change.
Subscriptions
- Belong UK Pro costs 29.99 GBP per year.
- New subscribers get a 7-day free trial.
- The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
- Where the law permits, any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
On the iPhone, payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. On Android, it is charged through Google Play; manage or cancel it in your Google Play subscriptions. We cannot do it for you in either store.
Each store handles its own sale, billing and refunds under its own terms: purchases made on the iPhone are refunded by Apple under Apple’s policy, and purchases made on Android by Google under Google Play’s policy. Because neither app has an account, a subscription bought in one store does not unlock the other.
No warranty
Belong UK is provided as is and as available. We do not warrant that it is accurate, complete, uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose, and we do not warrant that any date it shows will match the decision you eventually receive.
Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, Belong Europe ApS is not liable for any loss or harm arising from your use of Belong UK or your reliance on the information in it, including any missed deadline, refused application or delayed decision. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
Acceptable use
Use Belong UK personally and lawfully. Do not copy, resell, redistribute or sublicense it, do not reverse engineer it, and do not use it to mislead anyone about their legal position or to provide immigration advice as a service.
Intellectual property
The app, its text, its rule summaries, its practice questions and its design belong to Belong Europe ApS. References to official sources are for information; the names and marks of the Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration and GOV.UK belong to their respective owners, and none of them endorses Belong UK. The News segment shows headlines and summaries from GOV.UK, public sector information used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Changes
We may update these terms. The current version always lives on this page with its effective date, and material changes are announced in the app.
Governing law
These terms are governed by Danish law. If you are a consumer, you keep the mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live, and nothing here removes them.
Contact
Questions about these terms: hello@belongeurope.com.