Posting abroad and ILR status

[R S Hussain]

Hi,

Any body can help me in my following querry?

I am in UK working as self employed on Tier 1 (General) Visa. Visa issued on 16th March 2009. First Entry 11th November 2009. Then went back on 16th December and came on 20th August 2010. It is clear that I shall be in need of FLR before ILR.

From 20th August 2010 to date, I only went for 25 days. Now I have been offered a new job from Irish Company and they have their subsidiary in UK as well. They want me to post in South Asia as I have to develop their business in that region but my salary will be transferred into my UK account from their UK subsidiary and my contributions like income tax and NI will be paid here. My continuous stay will ot be more than 90 days as I shall be visiting UK after 70-80 days to report them but I am afraid that the total period spend abroad will be far more than 6 months.

Could any body please give me expert opinion in this special case that how will I become eligible for ILR?

Looking forward
R S Hussain

[imprezasti]

Same situation here-employed by a uk company, taxes paid in the uk, working on an assignment abroad... surely this must be allowed under T1G...? Any thoughts?

[sree_nair11]

You are eligible for more than 180 days of stay outside UK if they are for employment reasons. Your company will need to be a UK one and they have to give you an official letter stating that you are a UK employee and additional travel days are for work (specify all your trips in the document).

you should be fine in my view as you are paid in UK.