ILR Absence Days

Hello,

I know that the Date of travel and return is not counted for calculating the absent days, is this same valid for weekends and Bank Holidays too(I mean not counted)?

Also regarding the letter from employer- is it a must to have exact date of absences on it? or just a standard letter is as good a proof?

Thanks

The days counted is ANY day, not only WEEKDAYS. If you leave on a Friday and return on bank holiday Monday, then the Friday and Monday is not counted, for example.

Employer letter should be specific and not 'general'.

Thanks for the reply

The guidelines document mention

Interim caseworker action – missing evidence
If an applicant is required to provide specified documents from their employer explaining
their absences and fails to do this, and the absences do not exceed 30 working days plus
statutory public holidays per annum (for example, such absences are likely to be consistent
with paid annual leave), you can choose, having regard to all the circumstances of the case,
to consider the application without this documentation.

These 30 working days includes weekends?? ( or basically anyone working 5 days a week)

Regards,

Annual leave allowance/entitlement (including bank holidays) is different and not the same as the absence allowance of 180 days

Your employer letter will talk about leave days (and could even be days that you didn't leave the country). Absences from the country could be either for leave or if you had to travel for work, in which case it won't be covered under leave, but hopefully mentioned in your letter.