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The Regulations are very clear:LilyLalilu wrote:Here's my PR timeline:
1. Worker for 3 1/2 years
2. Left the country to go travelling for 2 months
3. Self-sufficient for 2 months (had enough savings and CSI)
4. Worker for 1 year and 2 months
During the two months away I was obviously not exercising treaty rights as I was abroad and therefore free from immigration restrictions. I thought that as long as the absence was under 6 months I would be able to count these two months of travelling towards PR as normal. However, this document which someone posted yesterday https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... -16-15.pdf states the following: "Although absences do not break the continuity of the residence requirement, they do not count towards the accrual of the 5 years continuous residence. This is because these absences will generally be periods when the claimant is not exercising a right to reside as defined within the EEA regulations." (p.2)
Does this mean that I only acquire PR two months later than expected because I was absent from the UK for two months at some point during my 5 years of residence? I cannot find mention of this in the EEA regulations at all...
It would be great if someone could advise me on this, maybe someone who has applied for PR with longer absences in between. Just want to be sure before I put my application in, don't want to waste any time because of a rejected application
Thanks.
Hello.LilyLalilu wrote:Here's my PR timeline:
1. Worker for 3 1/2 years
2. Left the country to go travelling for 2 months
3. Self-sufficient for 2 months (had enough savings and CSI)
4. Worker for 1 year and 2 months
During the two months away I was obviously not exercising treaty rights as I was abroad and therefore free from immigration restrictions. I thought that as long as the absence was under 6 months I would be able to count these two months of travelling towards PR as normal. However, this document which someone posted yesterday https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... -16-15.pdf states the following: "Although absences do not break the continuity of the residence requirement, they do not count towards the accrual of the 5 years continuous residence. This is because these absences will generally be periods when the claimant is not exercising a right to reside as defined within the EEA regulations." (p.2)
Does this mean that I only acquire PR two months later than expected because I was absent from the UK for two months at some point during my 5 years of residence? I cannot find mention of this in the EEA regulations at all...
It would be great if someone could advise me on this, maybe someone who has applied for PR with longer absences in between. Just want to be sure before I put my application in, don't want to waste any time because of a rejected application
Thanks.
It sounds like you were a jobseeker during that period but that you were travelling during those two months. You are required to show proof of residence throughout the five-year period (at least two types of evidence), so perhaps you could procure bills, bank statements and also proof you were applying for jobs during that period.LilyLalilu wrote:Thanks both!
I still had my flat in the UK whilst I was away and was paying rent and bills as normal. I was also sending out lots of applications to UK companies whilst I was away if this makes any difference?!