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There was no exception made to your case at all, but you have missed the point here. The type of visa is very much important, for starters the difference between your case and the OP is that in your case there is a 'Main Applicant' and 'Dependant' who is of course your spouse, but is not on a 'spousal' visa, in the OPs case there is only the main applicant who is the spouse of a BC and is on a 'spousal visa'. Also even in cases where there is a 'main applicant' and 'dependent' the requirement to be in UK on that visa (dependent visa) for 2 years varies, eg those on points based system cannot now apply unless dependent spouse has been in UK for 2years, also students or others using the long stay (10year) cannot apply with dependents at all. Only those who came b4 the 'new' points based system can apply.ouflak1 wrote:My wife was on a student visa until April 2009 (married 2007). She then got her Work permit dependent visa. When we applied for our ILR, we had been living together already the previous 2 years (+). We all got our ILR on January of this year despite her only actually being on that dependent visa for about 9 months previous to applying. This fact was pointed out by the counter officer, but the case worker he passed it on to said that everything was fine, and we all (me, wife, infant daughter born here) got our ILR that day. Perhaps there was an exception made in our case, however we never got that impression. I researched this pretty thoroughly and never found any UKBA site or other visa site that stated that the *type* of visa was relevant. Only that the spouse and main applicant had to be living together for a continuous period of two previous to applying, which we had been. Has this changed recently?