Tier-2 General 5-year route OR Long Residence 10-year route

[raminxp]

Hi,

In about a month time, I will be eligible for ILR from two different routes: Tier-2 General 5-year route and Long Residence 10-year route.

Both are fairly uncomplicated I guess. With the 10-year route, I have only once lived outside the UK for 2 months without a visa. For the 5-year route, I have been without a job a couple of times for 2-3 months and 3-4 months in between, but not a single time my visa was curtailed.

Which route sounds the safest and quickest to you guys? I mean, both should get me there, but I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible and hoping to the ILR as quickest as possible.

Kind regards

[CR001]

Do you have dependents in the UK??

ILR LR is the easier one as there is no minimum salary requirement and less supporting documents needed but if you have dependents, they have to switch visas and this will reset their clock for ILR to zero.

[raminxp]

Do you have dependents in the UK??

ILR LR is the easier one as there is no minimum salary requirement and less supporting documents needed but if you have dependents, they have to switch visas and this will reset their clock for ILR to zero.

Interesting, I was thinking the 5-year would be simpler.

I have no dependents, and well over the salary threshold. Would you still recommend Long Residence? Any ballpark idea about the processing time differences?

Regards,

[CR001]

They both are qualifying routes for 24 hour super priority service. Or you can use the standard 8 week service too.

Absence limit is more generous with Tier 2 ILR than Long residence ILR.

[raminxp]

They both are qualifying routes for 24 hour super priority service. Or you can use the standard 8 week service too.

Absence limit is more generous with Tier 2 ILR than Long residence ILR.

Thank you.