Will my ILR be refused as i have been working for 11 years!

[noush]

hi,

please help as an application for ILR under the 14 year rule has been sent via my solicitor but i have just heard as an overstayer i should not have been working. I have had a national insurance number since 1995 and took up work in 1998 but i was told that i had permission to work after 6 months if my asylum application was not decided. eventually my app. was refused and i appealed and have not heard anything until today even though my address has always been the same.

does anyone know if my application will be refused because i have been working? i am so scared.

[vinny]

See also Chapter 18 - Long residence.

[iceman010899]

Did you state that you were working in the application ?

Unless you tell them they might not check. As vinny posted check the ILR rules.

[noush]

yes i enclosed all my payslips and p60's and everything! am really scared

[IMMIGRATION LAWYER]

The applicant’s employment record will often be a significant consideration. The main purpose of the two Long Residence rules is to enable people who have been working here, or otherwise contributing to the economy, to regularise their position. Therefore, caseworkers need to consider what the person has been doing while here, and what economic contribution, if any, he has made. It will not normally be in the public interest to grant ILR under these Rules to someone unless he has been economically selfsufficient for a significant period of the time he has spent here

[noush]

oh thank you IMMIGRATIONLAWYER...thanks somuch for making me feel better.