LR route inquiry

Hi everyone,

I am on FLR(M), and wondering if I have been maintaining my continuous residence to be eligible to apply under Set(LR) next year, please see blow my immigration history.

Visa type.	Valid from	Valid to	Entry date	Exit date
Student visitor visa	18/05/2014	19/05/2015	27/05/2014	28/04/2015
Student C-visit	13/05/2015	13/11/2015	01/05/2015	01/10/2015
Tier 4 visa.	11/10/2015	03/02/2017	15/10/2015	03/02/2017
Tourist visa	27/03/2017	27/09/2017	07/04/2017	20/08/2017
Tier 4 visa	12/09/2017	26/01/2022	17/09/2017	No
Spouse visa	30/12/2021	26/06/2024	No	No

Thank you so much in advance.

You don't qualify for long residence ILR until may 2024, not next year.

If you have no single absence of 180 days or more and no absence in the whole 10 years of 540 or more, you will qualify for ILR.

Thank you so much CR001.
I was worried about my exit day on the last day of valid leave “table; in red”, and return on tourist visa period.

I have a few more questions.

Q1) If I apply on the 30 of April 2024 (-28 days “May 27”), can I use super-priority service or the 28 days role to stick to standard service?
Q2) If anything goes wrong with the Set(LR) application, like if it gets delayed to be processed then rejected for whatever reason, would I still have the opportunity to apply for spouse visa extension?
Q3) If everything goes well with Set(LR) application, and my spouse is BC, can I apply for neutralisation straight away?

Thank you.

1. You will be eligible within 28 days of completing the 10 years. You can apply from that day onwards
2. Yes
3. Yes

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for your continuous help,
after the new changes to the LR route based on 10 years, can someone kindly clarify what it means in my case please, when i would be qualified to apply.

Thank you so much.

it means you cannot use your temporary visa periods as part of the 10 years. Short term student visas or tourist visa periods are now excluded

Any periods of time with leave in any of the following, are not ‘lawful residence’ for the purposes of long residence and will break continuous residence:

•any category of visitor granted under ‘Appendix V: Visitor’ of the Immigration Rules

•short-term student granted under ‘Appendix Short-term Student’ of the Immigration Rules

•seasonal worker granted under ‘Appendix Temporary work – Seasonal Worker’ of the Immigration Rules

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... nal-worker