Spending time outside UK

[Humbl]

Hi everyone,
I have been following this amazing site for a while.
Please I need some advice pls, I’m Non Eu living in Uk with my EU partner as Unmarried partners.
Both of us have EEA residence documents and also Pre settled status.
She is exercising her treaty right as a pensioner, inherited from her late husband in France, so she isn’t working in uk.

So my question is,
We are planning to spend a continuous one year outside uk,
Please how can this continue One Year Outside Uk affect our settled status in future?


Many thanks for information.

[Zerubbabel]

If you leave the UK, you will have to immigrate again in a year time depending on the regulations available in the future.

Once your EEA national leaves the country, your status as non-EEA is toast.

You have to see later how you can come back but it means starting from scratch.

You may read less extreme options than what I am telling you here. However, you have to consider that the Home Office is being empowered by the Brexit. We know them nasty today, but they are like angels comparatively how they will be in Feb 2021.

The risk is yours really. But they can absolutely claim in 2021 that your EEA national ceased to exercise Treaty Right. You ceased to have a valid EEA leave in the UK and you have then to qualify under a new route.

[Humbl]

Hi Zerubbabel
Thanks for the reply.
We are not closing our residence in uk.
We are just trying to spend some time outside Uk.

Meanwhile under which circumstances does Pre settled status holder could spend 2 continuous years outside Uk without losing their residence right?
Correct me if am wrong.

[Zerubbabel]

Yes, if you read here:

https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-ci ... atus-means

Here is what they say:



But "maintaining residence" is a bit vague term. You don't want term to turn around and say "you didn't maintain residence."

[Humbl]

Thanks Again for this information provided.
Please how would i maintain continues residence while spending time outside Uk?
This is what’s been confusing for us..
Thanks for your contribution.

[secret.simon]

Please how would i maintain continues residence while spending time outside Uk?

Return within six months. Don't be absent for a year.