How long can we be away from the UK?

[gulgon]

Withing 5 Years, what is the maximum time we can spend abroad, not to risk ILR? I am plannning to travel often for touristic reasons.

How do they really understand how long you have been away from the UK? I mean, the stamps are very confusing in most of the cases...

[Chess]

Withing 5 Years, what is the maximum time we can spend abroad, not to risk ILR? I am plannning to travel often for touristic reasons.

How do they really understand how long you have been away from the UK? I mean, the stamps are very confusing in most of the cases...

You can be away for atotal of 6months - however; your period away in the last year should not exceed 3 months...

So tourism travel is OK

[farazfastian]

are they flexible, i mean when u apply for ILR after 5 years with 7-8 months of travel period outside uk but in the chunks of 15days to 1.5months i.e. less then 3 months, so do they consider for ILR or not.. coz i think its unfair to reject ilr just for the difference of 30+ days within the period of 5 years. Like in my case just today i got my EC with the visa date from the same day but i'll goto uk after 1 month, it means in the next 5 years i can spent just 5 months outside uk? plz guide

regards
faraz

[MWazir]

Your ILR clock will start ticking not from the date of your visa but from your date of entry into the country. From that point onwards, 5 years on you can apply for ILR.