New 4 year ILR Rules for HSMP are effective now

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From BIA website....
effectively we cannot club both WP and HSMP while making application based on 4 year ILR rule.


http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/siteco ... to0409.pdf


5 years or 4 years in the highly skilled migrant category.
The 4-year qualifying period applies only to applications
made under the terms of the HSMP indefinite leave to
remain judicial review policy document. Those terms apply
only if you were given permission to stay as a highly skilled
migrant after applying before 3 April 2006. All other highly
skilled migrant applications are subject to the 5-year period.


5 years In the work permit holder, employment not requiring
a work permit, businessperson, innovator, investor,
self-employed lawyer, writer, composer or artist, UK ancestry,
Tier 1 and Tier 2 categories or routes.