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by olgachilds » Sun Oct 09, 2016 4:22 pm
Look, first of all you have to relax.
Whenever you are trying to meet a HO requirement, you have to ask yourself, first of all, why it exists.
It exists because they want to create a Catch-22 situation that catches out anyone who ever worked illegally in the UK.
They do not really care when and where exactly did you work, unelss any of these periods coincide with time you were not allowed to work.
So what was your status, that is the question.
So in applications of people who entered say in Tier 1 General and have only ever been in this category, meaning they were always allowed to work for whomever they want, this has very little meaning, as well as in applications from EU citizen with confirmed right of PR.
That being said, I have seen clients bring me HMRC employment histories with more than 5 years worth, and I dont think anything under 6 years is ever archived at HMRC, so not sure what that's about.
But ultimate advice is, first relax, second write what you do remember, and if some dates you remember are uncertain, put down a year and say (do not remember) in parenthesis. Explain in covering letter.
