Following the removal of the 15-year limit, you can now register to vote as an overseas elector.
Eligibility
You are eligible to do this if you are a
- British citizen living overseas
- eligible Irish citizen
- citizen of a Crown Dependency
and you meet any of the below criteria
- you lived in the UK in the past and were not registered, or were too young to register when you left the UK
- you had a previous voting registration in the UK, either before you left or as an overseas voter
- you were last registered on the basis of a declaration of local connection, as a merchant seaman or as a service voter
- you are a person of no fixed abode when you left the UK and would have been eligible to make a declaration of local connection or who left the UK before 2001