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The HO should have the record. Placing a request for your SAR could help you in getting 5he needed details. However, the reference to your job and earning a leaving necessitaes the bulk of the travels and would HO consider this differently compared to journeys embarked on for holidays? Believe the mods and gurus shall give pointer in right direction.Billw wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:46 pmHello, I live in London and work as a cabin crew for an international airline, so I am out of the country once a week for a maximum of 3 days. I've had an ILR visa since 2009.
With Covid I'm obviously flying a lot less, but over the last 5 years I've definitely been out of the country for more than 450 days. Can I count just my holidays as time out of the country, and not include these work trips?
There's another complication, which is that I lost my passport about 11 months ago and had to replace it, so I don't have a record of all the trips I've made. (My work trips aren't listed in the passport anyway). Is there another way I can provide evidence, or can it be self-certified absence? I have the police crime reference number for the lost.
I'll be very grateful for your help!
Ultimately, you look fine by that guidance and ref provided by CR001 based on occupation.Billw wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:38 pm@vaza many thanks - without counting the travel days, an average month looks like being approx 7 days absence. So 7 days x 60 months = 420 days. Added to this will be holidays, which will be 25-30 days per year, totalling about 570-600 days. This is fairly well within the discretion limits the HO have set. I may need some discretion on the 90 days in the previous year as well, though - as the travel industry was shut down this year I flew home for 2 months, plus a couple of weeks in Jan/Feb too, which will take me over the 90 days.
@obormot thanks as well - I will be able to demonstrate the strong ties, and hopefully my employer will be able to provide a letter. I'm hearing of colleagues who say they've applied without submitting the full travel details (there'd be 150+ separate trips - surely the HO don't want to wade through all these!)
In your interest towards a successful application, do not on your own decide what they want to wade through or not, kindly provide all that is possible in support of your application.
@secret.simon this is a good point - I'm 'on the ground' in the UK for only a short period between flights, so it may be a bit of a lottery as to whether I happened to be here exactly 5 years before they receive my application. Check the dates well and select the one that actually means you are on ground 5 years before...i don't envy the 'cross checking' you are having to do.
So grateful to all you guys for providing this advice!