Understand the eligibility of ILR

Recently, the long residency route (10 years of legal residence) to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) has gained more attention than normal, partially because of the number of refusals that the Home Office has given to hopefuls applying under this path. It would seem that this is due to a clear misconception of what constitutes a continuous residence period in the UK – the basic component of an application under the long-stay regulations. No less critical understands how to break the continuous-time.

Anyone who wishes to apply for ILR on various visas after having been in the UK for 10 years would logically consider applying under the long residency route. However, anyone considering this option must ensure that they have never spent more than 6 months outside the United Kingdom, or a total of 18 months outside the United Kingdom over the entire 10-year continuous period. Since the Home Office describes a month as 30 days, this will translate into no more than 180 days at any given time or no more than 540 days over the 10 years. This is fairly conservative and does not permit extended absences.

There are some requirements which one need to meet to apply for Long Residence ILR :

To make a good application for indefinite leave to stay (ILR) on the ground of 10 years long residency, people would need to satisfy UK Visas and Immigration that:

They have spent at least 10 years continuously and legally living in the United Kingdom.

Their 10-year period of legal residency remains unbroken.

There are no arguments for the public interest that it would not be appropriate to give permanent leave to citizens to stay.

There is no general justification for why they would deny their application.

People have shown enough knowledge of the English language and life in the UK.

Applications for long residence ILR are rendered online, based on 10 years of permanent and lawful long residency. If people want to get a decision on their indefinite leave to stay (ILR) application faster than they can buy additional paid-for services. In the 10-year long-stay group, people may apply for ILR up to 28 days in advance of completing their qualifying period of permanent legal residence.

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