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by sagareva » Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:26 am
yes you can qualify, you are thinking exactly right -- your application date breaks your long absence into two under-180-day periods
but you do have to provide some explanation for that absence all the same, and it has to be compelling -- not just "i havent found job in uk and went back to work in my home country". absence has to have been for compelling family reasons or if absence is in the beginning, for personal affairs clearly showing do to with wrapping up your move to the UK so that in further years you spent more time here (you sold property there or whatever)
in my experience so far, a number of tier 1 people settled form the same position and this seems to work, so long as absences do fit into under-180-day periods by carefully selecting an application date. i have even had a case when settlement was granted when those were slightly exceeded, but that involved obviously compelling circumstances, such as medical evidence and death certificate for close family member abroad.
however if you do manage to fit them into under-180 day periods as you have, it seems to generally work without much problem so long as you have a letter from yourself explaining reasons as being consistent with purpose of your stay in the UK. if there is any secondary documentary evidence of those reasons, all the better.
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