EEA permanent residence application - Absences from the UK

warfo09 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 24, 2018 12:21 pm

Hi, I have a question on EEA permanent residence application.

Section 5 - Residence in the UK and previous EEA documentation:
5.3 Have you (or has your sponsor, if applicable) had any absences from the UK since you/they entered? If yes, please give details in the tables below.

How I read it is that I need to list any absences from the UK during the last 5 years, including travel, holidays, etc. Searching this forum that seems to be the consensus too.

However, reading the accompanying Guidance Notes (separate document, EEA(PR): guidance notes – v3.0 – April 2017) this is what is said on page 8:

Absences from the UK
Please note, you only need to list your absences where you have been out of the UK for more than 6 months in total in any 12 month period. You do not need to list any absences that were before your qualifying period of residence

Can someone please confirm if this is indeed the case, i.e. I should only list any absences of more than 6 months?

Thanks