Hi everyone,
(I hope this is in the right forum section)
I would like to ask a quick question on behalf of my wife and I will outline the details first.
We moved to the UK on September 12th 2016 from Spain under the Surinder Singh immigration route as my wife is a non-EU citizen. She was granted a 5 year UK residence card and we had planned to live here for at least that amount of time and then apply for permanent residence.
However, my wife’s mother is quite sick at the moment and with no one else able to look after her it’s looking like my wife might need to go to her home country (Thailand) to do so.
This is very concerning for us as we don’t want to lose her UK residence card as a result.
I’m aware that there is a rule that she can not spend more than 6 months outside of the UK in any 12 months.
Is there a way my wife could go back to Thailand for say 5 months or so and then return to the UK for a couple of weeks and then go back again to continue to look after her mother? Would doing this work so that she could still keep her UK residence card?
I am very grateful of any help here.
Thank you
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