And as a response to technoguy - i put all my documents in a folder and handed over to the caseworker and she took out whatever she needed. She didn't ask me anything as we probably spoke 3 of 4 sentences in all!

Hi there - I took the letter to be on the safe side. It was for whole 5 yrs (I have been with the same employer for 5yrs), and all my absences from UK were holidays, taken out of paid leaves. I just took a letter saying that I have not taken any unpaid leaves in last five years. Now, as I said previ...

Thanks a lot everyone on this forum for sharing their experience. This forum has proven to be an invaluable resource while preparing the application. We had an appointment today, and we went well ahead of time (8am, for an appointment at 9). I was pleasantly surprised that we were allowed to go in a...

thanks man. thats very helpful. can u please confirm when did you apply?

Reading from other responses in the forum, it seems you do have to provide some sort of evidences for absences from UK even if it is less than 180 days!

Hi everyone - I had a few questions regarding my impending ILR application in Croydon PEO. If someone with prior experience can please help me out that will be great. My situation: Entered UK with workpermit in March 2008, switched to Tier 1 (general) in March 2009, extended Tier 1 (General) in Apri...