Thanks for your responses everyone. I agree LaurenN, I am nervous about potential interpretations of this guidance. However, I think I'm going to proceed assuming I can go for it, but read these forums regularly etc to read of any cases where people have been refused. I didn't realise I'd need 5 yea...

Any experts about? I now have 2 going one way and 2 the other. I have also read some policy responses to FOI requests which also advise one way (that if you haven't been out of the country for more than 180 days in a year then that's enough to meet the test) and the other - that if you have left for...

I seem to have two contradictory responses - obviously I prefer the first one! I definitely have enough points to renew under Tier 1 (I have 100 points) but left the country a few times between jobs on holidays (usually to go back to Australia to see friend's new babies etc, not for funerals). The c...

Hi, Apologies if I'm being a bit dim but I've been trawling through the guidance and it's not clear to me. I arrived in July 2009 on a Tier1 (General) visa. I have renewed once and assumed I could go for ILR next year. I still meet all the Tier 1 requirements and have never been out of the country f...