From the UK Border Agency website (tinyurl.com/cz336a):

"...You must give details of all unspent criminal convictions. This includes road traffic offences but not fixed penalty notices (such as speeding or parking tickets) unless they were given in court. You must include all drink-driving offences."

"...We will normally disregard a single conviction for a minor offence resulting in a bind over, conditional discharge or relatively small fine or compensation order, if a person is suitable for citizenship in all other respects. By 'minor offences' we mean speeding or other 'regulatory' offences.

Offences involving dishonesty (for example theft), violence or sexual offences are not classed as minor offences. Drink-driving offences, driving while uninsured or disqualified are also not minor offences."

From the above it seems that your convictions would indeed have a bearing on any naturalisation application.

My understanding is that the period of rehabilitation for the initial driving ban would be the period of the ban, i.e. 12 months - but when you were convicted the second time, you must have been banned again (I find it hard to believe that the only punishment was community service). What the precise timescale involved is, I don't know.

Probably you need to contact the UKBA direct and ask them.

Edited by FP on 27/08/2013 at 10:32

(Edit: Comment deleted which gave rise to your justified response.)

Pretty thoughtless comment. Xenophobic?

Edited by Avant on 27/08/2013 at 22:05

Is this post a wind up?

Xenophobic?

If a guest in somebody eles's house behaved in a way thet was not acceptable to the house owner, they could reasonably be asked to leave.

Change the word "house" to "country" and the phrase "behaved in a way that was not acceptable" to "broke the law."

When a government is elected in this country, the power of law making for the next 5 years is automatically passed to that government. The only way the law making process can be influenced is by a strong opposition or the house of lords.

As the saying goes, "you cannot please all of the people all of the time."