Cabin crew whilst on spouse visa and looking to gain citizenship

[Pudge1234]

Hi there, we are currently waiting for my wife's spouse visa extension to be approved, after spending 2.5 years here already. After this, we will look to stay for another 2.5 years and apply for citizenship.

Once the new visa comes through, my wife wants to apply and work as a cabin crew, which would be based in the UK and would fly long haul between the UK and Hong Kong.

This would result in time out of the country (for work) when she has to stay over in Hong Kong as part of the flight. From speaking to numerous cabin crew, passports are not stamped when they leave or enter the country for work, so this would not necessarily be recorded.

My questions are:

1) Is this type of employment OK whilst on the spouse visa?
2) Will this type of employment affect the chance of citizenship after 5 years?

Thanks!

[CR001]

1. Just to be clear,shr needs to apply fpr ILRbefore she can apply for british citizenship.

2. She can do any work on a spouse visa.

3. While there is no absence limit for her on her Spouse visa and for ILR, british citizenship does have absence limits and extended absences could cause delays in an application and could poyentially result in a refusal.

All absences have to be declared for citizenship.

[777GE90]

Someone with more knowledge can correct me, but another consideration is when you come to actually applying for citizenship, they do look at how much time you spent outside the UK. The allowance is very generous though, see here: https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-in ... -to-remain

You should not have:

spent more than 450 days outside the UK during the 5 years before your application
spent more than 90 days outside the UK in the last 12 months
broken any UK immigration laws (for example living illegally in the UK)

I spose every time your partner flies out and stays in the foreign country for X days, it will add up I guess? Will not be fun for the case worker to count all the days lol.

[Casa]

3. While there is no absence limit for her on her Spouse visa and for ILR, british citizenship does have absence limits and extended absences could cause delays in an application and could poyentially result in a refusal.

All absences have to be declared for citizenship.

As CR001 has already advised in an earlier post

[AmazonianX]

Someone with more knowledge can correct me, but another consideration is when you come to actually applying for citizenship, they do look at how much time you spent outside the UK. The allowance is very generous though, see here: https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-in ... -to-remain

You should not have:

spent more than 450 days outside the UK during the 5 years before your application
spent more than 90 days outside the UK in the last 12 months
broken any UK immigration laws (for example living illegally in the UK)

I spose every time your partner flies out and stays in the foreign country for X days, it will add up I guess? Will not be fun for the case worker to count all the days lol.

So applicant to keep track of their entry and exits.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... section-61