Probationary citizenship versus ILR

[aosun007]

To all powerful memebrs of the forum.

If someone has been on tier 1 general for 1.5 year and his spouse on 5 years work permit will be applying for ILR by august 2010 and they have different immigration status.
1.The question is does it make sense to go out of the country to apply as dependant of work permit now and apply for ILR together by august
or
if the person wait till the wife get ILR and switch to spouse of ILR in late august and we all know that probationary citizenship starts in July 2011

1.Will the period spend in tier 1 general counts towards naturalization by combining both qualifying period as tier 1 general and spouse of ILR.

Please,i want you all to contribute to this topic.

aosun077

[f2k]

Technically according to the rules, a dependent of a WP visa holder should be able to apply for ILR at the same time as WP holder without staying in UK under the dependent category. So that being the case it would be a good idea to switch now and apply for ILR together.

Time spent on tier 1 would count towards naturalisation only but not ILR as spouse. i.e. If one gets a spouse visa in August they will still have to stay for 2 years before they could apply for ILR (not sure what will happen in 2011 with new rules), but once they get ILR they can count their years of residence using all legal time spent here.

[aosun007]

thanks alot for your response,
aosun007