thanks a lot staffordjafar and dejavu for your replies. It has certainly helped with my understanding and help me make a decision for my application.

Thanks for your reply,staffordjaffar. I guess I will count in the weekends and public holidays since there is not really a written guidance which allows this exclusion.

Sorry, I forgot to add another question...can I exclude weekends and public holidays from the limit when counting absences e.g. I left UK for a holiday on the Monday and returned to UK on the Monday the week after? Hence the total absence days is 4 days (minus Sat and Sunday and also because we don'...

Hello, I need some advice as I am planning to apply for 10 year long residence ILR. At the moment, I have 568 days absences outside of UK (of which 7 days are for business trips and 58 days were taken as annual paid leave). I am not sure if I will be able to get a letter from my employer to state th...