Thank you for directing me to this part of the guidance. It seems a bit more hopeful. I will have a look at other posts to see whether anyone has made a successful application in circumstances similar to mine.

Thank you again.

Apologies - I meant to say that I acquired ILR in October 2024

My husband and two children are British (by birth).

I obtained ILR in October 2025

I had a spouse visa that expired in 2019. I discovered that I had accidentally overstayed by 53 days when I reentered the UK in June 2019 (I had travelled back to my country of birth for my father's funeral). I was allowed back into the UK on a tourist visa as my daughter was due to go back to ...

Thank you. I have previously looked at this guidance and it is very confusing. My reading of it is that: (1) the Home Office can overlook immigration breaches, as stated in paragraph 1 of the guidance, but it is not clear when they would do so. (2) If (1) does not apply (because immigration breaches ...

Can you please direct me to the source that says overstaying is ignored if there are no other factors against an applicant's good character?

Thank you for your response. I will apply and report back

I have no other factors - just the 53 days of overstaying in 2019

Hi, I am concerned that my period of overstaying means that I have to wait 10 years (until 2029) to apply for citizenship. Background: 1999-2008: ILR (which lapsed when I left the UK for more than 2 years). July 2016: Spouse visa granted. March/April 2019: I unintentionally overstayed my spouse visa ...

Well it’s now over 4 months since my wife’s spouse visa extension application on 10 June. Two enquiries by my MP to the Home office but no response. My wife meets all the requirements- it should be a very easy decision to make. Has anyone tried to get the first tier tribunal to require the HO to pro ...

Thanks for the responses. I assume my wife is on the 5 year route, but she has never received any correspondence from the Home Office. I guess we will have to be patient. If it gets to December and there is still no response then I will start worrying.

My wife applied for a spouse visa extension on 14 May and had her appointment on 10 June, and we are still waiting. She has some sort of extension until 23 December, so she can still work (but we can't go on holiday). So in total its been 14 weeks since her appointment on 10 June (the visa ...

Thank you for your answer (and joining this question to my last thread).

My spouse recently overstayed her visa by some 50 days and she now needs to apply for a new spouse visa (the overstay was an oversight as we wrongly thought spouse visas did not expire). The initial spouse visa was granted while we were living in Australia (I am a dual UK/Aust national). We have no ...

An extension would have been preferable, but we were told we would probably be rejected.

This all such a headache

Hi. I am hoping someone can help me with a spouse overstaying question. My wife (Australian passport holder) returned from a funeral last Friday and was told that her spouse visa issued in July 2016 had expired on 17 March 2019. Needless to say we were surprised as her old visa issued in 1999 gave ...