Recommendation is you should apply before your current visa expires. You can though still apply for ILR within 28 days after your visa expires with some serious reasoning(serious illness, in hospital etc) that why you couldnt apply before your current leave expired.
@ spidery thread- the only issue I think is that we have to show full economic activity for 5 years, which obviously I have a gap as I wasn't paid because I was not employed and was in the UK too?
Hello members, I have been a regular visitor to this website for over a year now and just got registered now. Details below:- Got WP granted in Feb 2008. Left the company in Jan 2011, went back to india for 4 weeks and came back to UK in Feb 2011(Reason -was transferred from Glasgow to Cambridge as ...