Dependant ILR English Test

Dear everyone,
Please I am asking this question on behalf of my dependant, who is my wife. I will be applying for my ILR soon.

Wife immigration history:

01/10/2024: Wife apply for a skilled worker dependant visa from oversea
11/10/2024: wife receive a UKVI decision letter dated 09/10/2024 that wife dependant visa application was successful.
Wife passport contain entry clearance vignette valid from: 14/12/2024 to 14/03/2025.
Wife BRP issue date: 26/11/2024
Wife enter the UK on the 15/12/2024

Please based on the above information:

(1.) When do my wife ILR qualifying period start or the date of calculating ILR continuous period start. Does it start from when she received decision letter dated 09/10/2024 or from the BRP issue date 26/11/2024 or from the time she enter the UK as my dependant, which is 15/12/2024 or from the date of entry clearance vignette, which is 14/12/2024.

(2.) Also based on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... accessible. The info explained that "The period between entry clearance being issued and the applicant entering the UK may be counted toward the qualifying period". Does this mean that the start date for qualifying for ILR for my wife as a skilled worker dependant starts from from the date she receive her successful application decision letter, which was 09/10/2024 and not when she entered the UK or the date on the BRP.

Please all your help will be appreciated, as I am somehow confused.

Use the BRP issue date 26/11/2024. The date of entry is irrelevant

Thank you @ Zimba for this and for all you do for us here.

Please this is my last question:

Therefore, If I am using the BRP date of 26/11/2024 as you have explained.

(1.) Does it mean that my wife hasn't been absent from the UK for a long period of days for the purpose of calculating the continuous leave period for ILR and can still travel outside the country for about 2 weeks. This is because when I was calculating her absence from the date the visa was approved, which was 09/10/2024 till the time she entered the UK on the 15/12/2024, it seem that she had accumulated about 65 days absence from the UK, when considering the 180days absence periods for the purpose of ILR.

(3.) But using the BRP date which was 26/11/2024, I believe this will not affect her absence period as much, if she wish to travel outside the UK as compared to the visa approval date and when taken into account the information in this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... accessible.

Please your final help will be highly appreciated.

I am not sure why she would fail the requirements

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Good morning All,

Please I want to seek your support.

My wife already submitted her English language test SELT for UKVI’ – Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - B2 done at Trinity College in her previous in-country application for extension as a skilled worker dependant and want to submit her ILR application.

It is over 2 years she submitted that B2 test for her skilled worker dependant visa extension and when she submit the test it was within 2 years and now 2 years have passed and want to apply for ILR.

(1.) Is it possible to reference the same B2 test in this current ILR application and will this test be accepted by Home Office OR

(2.) She need to do a new SELT B2 English test again for the purpose of this application

Thank you every one.

She needs a new test.

Skilled worker dependent visa does NOT (and never has) have an English requirement so her test would have been disregarded completely.

You can only use an expired test if it was used in a previous application that was successful and where English was mandatory requirement. This obviously does not apply to her dependent visa route.