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by Tea_Rocket » Mon May 01, 2017 12:17 pm
Were you issued a P45 each time you left the UK branch of the company? Or were you issued a single one after you left the company? If the former, I would list each period of employment in the UK separately. If the latter, I would list them all together.
If you have no P45s, I think you will probably have to use Page 22 of the form to explain your situation. I would list each period of employment in the UK separately and use Page 22 of the application form to explain that you were employed by the same company during the gaps (and still had your Tier 2 visa), but that you were in India during those periods, and therefore were not paying National Insurance or any other UK taxes. I can also see an argument for listing your employment with that company as a single period and using page 22 to explain that you weren't in the UK the whole time and listing the dates that you were.
Basically, as long as you acknowledge on your form that you were in India for part of the time, and detail exactly when you were in the UK for this company, I think you're probably fine. Your situation is unusual, so it's unlikely there's a standard or "right" way to do it.
As for supporting evidence, according to the guidance, the purpose of this section is so that they can check your National Insurance contributions. For EEA nationals, the payslips, P60s, P45s, and HMRC letters provide evidence of their physical presence in the UK during their qualifying period. If you're not an EEA national, and have stamps in your passport for every time you entered and left the UK, it's probably not as important to include these, since the stamps are evidence of when you were in the UK. However if you have them, you may as well send them with your application. If you're using a Nationality Checking Service (who will be able to advise the best way of filling in this section of the form anyway), they may not ask for them or send them along with your application for you, but you should take them along to the appointment anyway. It's better to have them and not need them then vice versa, in my opinion.
