I had my ILR in February 2013 and I am due to apply for naturalization next month. In September 2013, I moved abroad for work. I have a small limited company registered in England and Wales and as I wanted to expand the company I moved to my country of birth to look for some government contracts. At the moment I have got a 3 year fixed term contract with a company in my country of birth. I have employed two people in my UK based company and I pay all the relevant taxes. I travel to the UK every 2 months for about a week to work for my UK based company. My UK based company is now very profitable and I keep getting more clients.
My UK based company is my future. My intention is to grow that company and spend more time in the UK. At the moment, I still have accommodation in the UK paying rent and all the related bills. I still receive salary and dividends from my UK company. I am not married but I have two kids. The kids have always lived with their mum in my country of birth.
I have spent about 250 days out of the country in the last 5 years but the problem is I will be spending about 150 days out of the country in the last 12 months before I make my naturalization application.
I know that in approving a naturalization application, the case worker looks at your future intention ie whether you want to establish your principal home in the UK. Based on the above will the case worker decide that I have no intention of making UK my principal home.
Also in terms of the excess absence in the final year, do I qualify for discretion as I will argue that I have been out of the country working for my own company which is registered in the UK and I have established links in UK based on my rented accommodation and been a director and share holder of a UK company.
I will appreciate if forum members will share their thoughts on this. Thank you.
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