Time outside the UK on business
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 3:34 pm
Hi,
I received ILR in December 2012 (after completing 5 years on Tier 1 HSMP, which followed 12 months on a working holiday visa). Since then I've taken a 3 week holiday in NZ, and have a further 10 days worth of overseas holidays booked this year.
Today my employer has asked me if I am available to spend 3 months working in the USA later this year, as we have signed a major new client there. This would mean that I would likely be outside the UK for 120-130 days this year, putting me over the 90 day limit for naturalisation, though I will be well under the 450 days in 5 years requirement.
I have had a look at the discretionary rules around absences in the final year on pages 8-9 here: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitec ... iew=Binary
Am I better off delaying my application a few months until 12+ months after the USA stint, or would I have a shot at getting an exemption under "exceptional career related absences"? I'm unmarried, and childless so have no family in the UK.
Thanks in advance.
I received ILR in December 2012 (after completing 5 years on Tier 1 HSMP, which followed 12 months on a working holiday visa). Since then I've taken a 3 week holiday in NZ, and have a further 10 days worth of overseas holidays booked this year.
Today my employer has asked me if I am available to spend 3 months working in the USA later this year, as we have signed a major new client there. This would mean that I would likely be outside the UK for 120-130 days this year, putting me over the 90 day limit for naturalisation, though I will be well under the 450 days in 5 years requirement.
I have had a look at the discretionary rules around absences in the final year on pages 8-9 here: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitec ... iew=Binary
Am I better off delaying my application a few months until 12+ months after the USA stint, or would I have a shot at getting an exemption under "exceptional career related absences"? I'm unmarried, and childless so have no family in the UK.
Thanks in advance.
