Before I say anything I really appreciate the time and effort spend by Moderators and members of this forum to provide such useful resource and sharing the case/experience. It helps us all in our application process.
I was having a look at the policy guidance recently and saw that transitional agreement is ending April 2019 and those who would like to have their ILR based on transitional agreement should do it by April 2019.
So my situation is as follows
I got my initial Tier 1 E in Oct 2013. Had 1 employee for 13 months, she left and was replaced by another employee who is working till date.
I had applied for Tier 1 Extension in Oct 2016, but got rejected in Dec 2016 due to lack of documents. I raised AR which fell over as well. So, eventually applied for Tier 1 Extension under Section 3c in Feb 2017.
My application was with home office until August 2017 and extension was approved. I had the employee working for me during this time span(which was about 10 months).
Q1. I am aware that we need to complete 24 months of employment to apply for ILR, so does that mean that these 10 months wouldn't be counted for ILR?
Q2. If I wait till Aug 2019, I would not be able to apply using transitional agreement. But again it is all home office delay in application process.
Q3. If I were to hire someone now to until March end would that be covered under transitional agreement? Or does the fall in another statement from Home office where they say any employee hired after extension needs to work for 12 months.
What are my other options if I missed based on experts in this forum? Would be great to get your thoughts on this, seems like a big mess to me.
Thanks,
tier1ent_2013
