Thanks in advance for your help. I'm still filling in the flr(m) with my wife, who is Japanese (I'm British).
I'm stuck on question 10.13 'How long have you lived in the Uk?'
She initially arrived as a student in 2012 (August), but since completing her MA returned to Japan for around 9 months while applying for her PhD, she returned and has since been in the UK continuously (bar a 3 month period for data collection) until present.
My question is, should she put that she's lived in the UK since 2012 and explain the 9 month gap in the table below, or put that she arrived on the current visa in 2014?
Sorry, I have a bonus question (for ten points), related to this, in a previous section (6.

Thank you! Your help is invaluable!
Joe