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Hello Experts,

I wanted to understand what is the effect of unpaid leave during ILR application.
1. I had gone away to India for 15 days on unpaid leave during the last 5 years. I am declaring this in my absences, will this have any issues?
2. Also, to make things worse, I was away on extensive business trips for more than 300 days. I wanted to know if I had travelled for paid holidays back to my country directly from the business trip location (without coming back to UK), could I count them as paid leave, although it would still mean I am out of UK continuously during that period?

Hoping to hear from you all

Thanks and regards,
phtt121

Please list all your absences and the reasons .... as long as you are showing proofs of business travel and paid leaves (i.e. taxes paid in UK during that time) you are fine ...

15 days unpaid should not be a problem

Any absence greater than 90 days? Have u Got supporting letter from your employer ?

Hi,
Thanks for the above responses. With regards to the actual absences, my business assignment had two big breaks away from UK:
1. Away for 120 days at a stretch from UK - I went directly to India for 10 days on paid holiday during this period. The reason was I was getting engaged.
2. Away for 177 days at stretch from UK - Again went directly to India for roughly abt 43 days (split 3 times), Again, during this period I got married.

My employer shall give me a letter supporting my business assignment out of the country but my question is should I show my paid leave from my assignment place directly to my holidays? Will it be detrimental in my application showing that I have not come back to UK for those leave- again the reason I went back is for my marriage or supporting my spouse's Entry Clearance application.

Please advise.