Artist visa

I was in the UK for 3 continuous years on an artist visa, got ill and was unable to walk due to a spinal problem. I returned to my home country for 9 months.
The period of my visa ends at the end of 2010 when I would have been able to apply for indefinite leave to remain if I was there for 5 continuous years.
As it is, there is a break of 9 months.

Do you think they will still provide me with IL2R? I don't want to waste money applying if it will be refused.

Trinilady wrote:I was in the UK for 3 continuous years on an artist visa, got ill and was unable to walk due to a spinal problem. I returned to my home country for 9 months.
The period of my visa ends at the end of 2010 when I would have been able to apply for indefinite leave to remain if I was there for 5 continuous years.
As it is, there is a break of 9 months.

Do you think they will still provide me with IL2R? I don't want to waste money applying if it will be refused.

Think nine months is too much realistically...

That status does not exist any more and has no direct replacement so you would have to qualify under some new status (one of the new tiers) and that's not easy. Your visa is still valid but I doubt they'd give you ILR because the gap was far too big.