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Hi

I am working full time on Tier 1 (General) visa.

My company is sending me on a secondment out of the country for 4 months.

i will still be employee of the company and will still get paid in the UK.

How will this affect me when i will be applying for my ILR?

shadow100 wrote:Hi

I am working full time on Tier 1 (General) visa.

My company is sending me on a secondment out of the country for 4 months.

i will still be employee of the company and will still get paid in the UK.

How will this affect me when i will be applying for my ILR?

If you're still paid and taxed in the UK then it shouldn't affect your ILR.

Thanks for you reply but i have read this on UKBA website:

Discretion in cases where continuous residence has been broken
In addition, time spent here may exceptionally be aggregated, and continuity not insisted upon, in cases where:
•
there have been no absences abroad (apart from those described in the paragraph above) and authorised employment or business here has not been broken by any interruptions of more than three months or amounting to more than six months in total;
or
•
there have been longer absences abroad, provided the absences were for compelling grounds either of a compassionate nature or for reasons related to the applicant's employment or business in the United Kingdom. None of the absences abroad should be of more than three months duration, and they must not amount to more than six months in total for the whole five year period..

Under current rules, work related absences are discounted when supported by employer letter. So get a letter from employer (template) and keep it safe for your ILR application. You may be able to make use of it if the rules remain the same / similar at the time of your ILR application.


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