ILR Eligibility

You need to take the earliest date. Visa approval date in most cases is the same as the date on your visa sticker or BRP issue date. However, for administrative reasons, the date of your document could be a later date as a visa or BRP document cannot be backdated. So if your visa was approved last week but the sticker/BRP is produced or printed today, it will have the today's date (that is simply the issue date and not necessarily the approval date). So as long as you use the earliest date, you will be perfectly safe. From the immigration rules perspective, your qualifying period starts from the date of visa approval which may or may not be the same as your immigration document issue date.

You will be eligible for ILR within 28 days of completing your 5 years

Dheep wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:10 am

Thank you for the reply. I will take earliest start date 21st oct in this case. View and prove your immigration status: get a share code website shows 2nd BRP issue date as valid from date instead of earliest approval or 1st BRP issue date. Is it expected because I use latest BRP to login?

That shows the latest visa you had. This has nothing to do with when your qualifying period starts