Thank you. Indeed there was no way to ‘choose’ a particular route. I just provide all the details along with a cover letter that would cover both scenarios so hopefully this should be okay.

Hi all, I’m a British citizen and my wife received her ILR 2 years ago. However owing to long absences from the country during Covid we didn’t apply for citizenship for my wife immediately after ILR at the time (I was already a british citizen when she received her ILR). Now, she fulfills all the re...

My wife was in the same situation. We applied for her ILR recently, wrote a detailed cover letter to explain the circumstances and included proofs. We quoted the following from the Appendix Continuous Residence Guidance (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-contin...

Applied for ILR Route: Set (O) Tier 2 General Dependant Date application sent: 18 Jan 2021 Type of application: Standard Date document submitted: 27 Jan 2021 Biometrics Submitted: 27 Jan 2021 (London Victoria) Decision email received: 8 Feb 2021 BRP Card Received: 12 Feb 2021 We applied for my wife’...