Many thanks everybody for your responses.

I think the 450 days should be fine - i may exceed only by about 10 or 20 days and that too were work related and I have documenation for them (i used them for ILR as well, so it worked). I guess I will just wait for for 9 more monhts.

Thanks agian!

Many thanks! Yeah - maybe I should wait for 9 more months. I was actually banking upon the support letters from the employers that my leave was a business requirement and that I was paid by them for the education.

Hi everybody, This forum is amazing – I am surprised how late I discovered it! My case maybe peculiar in my application to citizenship and would greatly appreciate member’s views on this. Background: I got my ILR (post 5 yrs on WP+HSMP+Tier1) in June 2011. In August 2011, I left the country to do my...