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Congrats!!hema177 wrote:Hi All,
I got my Tier 1 EC yesterday.
Applied on - 5th Aug
Received on -19th Aug.
I read somewhere that if I travel to UK within 28 days of receiving the EC, I would be eligible to apply for ILR after 2 years, otherwise I will be eligible for ILR only after 5 years.
Can anyone confirm this please?
Thanks everyone for your valuable suggestions and support.
Regards,
Annex A – Calculation of the five year period for settlementmanuelaux wrote:And if I go 3 weeks per year on vacations outside UK does that mean that these days does not count?
Hey thanks for this, I was looking for this...aruni4470 wrote:Annex A – Calculation of the five year period for settlementmanuelaux wrote:And if I go 3 weeks per year on vacations outside UK does that mean that these days does not count?
In assessing whether or not an applicant has fulfilled the requirement to have spent five years in continuous residence in the UK, short absences abroad, for example for holidays (consistent with annual paid leave) or business trips (consistent with maintaining employment or self-employment in the United Kingdom), may be disregarded, provided the applicant has clearly continued to be based here.
Discretion in cases where continuous residence has been broken
In addition, time spent here may exceptionally be aggregated, and continuity not insisted upon, in cases where:
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there have been no absences abroad (apart from those described in the paragraph above) and authorised employment or business here has not been broken by any interruptions of more than three months or amounting to more than six months in total;
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there have been longer absences abroad, provided the absences were for compelling grounds either of a compassionate nature or for reasons related to the applicant's employment or business in the United Kingdom. None of the absences abroad should be of more than three months duration, and they must not amount to more than six months in total for the whole five year period..
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