Her absences from UK in the five 12 months periods preceding ILR application will range between 50-70 days in each 12 months window. All absences are for holidays ....... with a catch!
Her work is such that she can work from anywhere remotely and it so happened that in a few instances she travelled out of UK before the date of her (sanctioned) annual leave commencing and worked remotely without the knowledge of her employer. Due to this, she cannot ask the employer to certify those instances of absences where her actual date of deparure from UK were days before start of sanctioned leave.
e.g.- Annual leave sanctioned by employer is 15Sep to 30Sep. But she travels outside UK on 04Sep and continues to work remotely (and without informing employer that she is not in UK) until 15thSep and then proceeds on holiday from 15th until the 30th when she travels back to UK! So from immigration perspective she is absent from 05Sep to 29Sep but from an employer's perspective she had sanctioned leave only between 15Sep and 30Sep.
Given that 245HH(B):
has been deleted, is it possible to apply for ILR under the Skilled Worker route without any supporting letter from the employer certifying the 50-70 days absence in each year of the 5 year qualifying period?A letter from the employer detailing the purpose and period of absences in connection with the employment, including periods of annual leave. Where the absence was due to a serious or compelling reason, a personal letter from the applicant which includes full details of the reason for the absences and all supporting documents in relation to those reasons - e.g. medical certificates, birth/death certificates, information about the reasons which led to the absence from the UK.
I am unable to find a rule similar to 245HH(B) in Appendix Skilled Worker or Appendix Continous Residence.
