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gbhsmp
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qualifying period

Post by gbhsmp » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:25 pm

If you have spent time in the UK while you were exempt from immigration control, you cannot include this time as part of the residential qualifying period. If you were in the UK as a diplomat or as a member of visiting armed forces, or if you were in any place of detention, you are considered to have been exempt from immigration control during that time. This time is treated as absence from the UK when we assess your application.
Does this mean the last 1 year after ILR is not to be considered as a part of the qualifying period ? since it says
been resident in the UK for at least five years (this is known as the residential qualifying period); and
this is confusing ? wrong wording ?

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Post by wpilr_nov12 » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:41 pm

second sentence defines 'exempt' in context.

having ilr makes you Free of immigration control, not exempt from it.
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