The 5 months you were away neither break your residence nor do they push it back. I was also absent for 2 months, applied straight after completing my 5 years and had no issues. There is a DWP guidance though which suggests that residence is pushed back by these absences, which is not true accordin...

I had a quick question with regard to counting residency for permanent residency that I thought someone might have an answer to. I am a Romanian national and I was a student in the UK between 2008 and 2012, then I left for Romania for 5 months where I was a full-time student, and I returned to the U...