Please clarify Residence Requirement dates

[happyguy82]

Hello,

I'm referring to Section 2: Residence requirements. Page 8

This form seems to be different to the previous ILR form. Here it's asking for 'Date of departure from the United Kingdom' and 'Date of return to the United Kingdom'.

I would like to ask specifically, as an example if I left the UK on 02/03/2014 and returned on 06/03/2014; should I write 02/03 as the 'Date of departure' and 06/03 as 'Date of return'? How many days 'absent' does this equal to? 3 days or 5 days?

This is confusing because on the ILR application we would only include full 24 hour absence, thus one would write 03/03/2014 - 05/03/2014 and count it as 3 days, however in Form AN it's asking for Date of departure/return so I'm guessing we need to add 1 more day on both ends.

Please advise.


Thanks.

[bubulinea]

Hello,

it is confusing if it's different on the ILR form.

Anyway, it's actually the same, just put differently. The 2nd and 6th won't be counted towards your days of absence, so it would from the 3rd till the 5th (3 days). You still have to write down the dates of departure and arrival though.

Hope this helps.

[CR001]

Just write the dates that you left and re-entered honestly. Absences for citizenship are still counted as whole days out of the UK.

[happyguy82]

Hello,

it is confusing if it's different on the ILR form.

Anyway, it's actually the same, just put differently. The 2nd and 6th won't be counted towards your days of absence, so it would from the 3rd till the 5th (3 days). You still have to write down the dates of departure and arrival though.

Hope this helps.

Ahh yes I should have read the Guidance notes. Sorry. Here it is:

Fill in this table showing the periods you have been away from the UK during the
last 5 years (3 years if you are married to or in a civil partnership with a British
citizen). Insert the number of days you were away from the UK in the last column
ignoring the day you left and the day you arrived back in the UK. If there is not
enough room for all your absences then continue on page 15. Add up the total and
write it in the space indicated.