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URGENT Calculating days away - whole days or including days of departure/return?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:45 pm
by pixgyp5
Hello, I am applying for naturalization soon, but I potentially have too many days away in the last 12 months before applying, depending on what I input as departure/arrival date. Is it only full days away from the UK that I need to input? I had many small trips for business, and the number potentially doubles if I include the flight days as full days away
For example, if I leave London Friday night, out of town Saturday, out of town Sunday, return Monday morning:
-Is this 4 full days away? That is what the application calculates if I put in Friday/Monday.
-Seems like it is only 2 full days out of the UK
Many thanks in advance
Re: URGENT Calculating days away - whole days or including days of departure/return?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:47 pm
by alterhase58
pixgyp5 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:45 pm
Hello, I am applying for naturalization soon, but I potentially have too many days away in the last 12 months before applying, depending on what I input as departure/arrival date. Is it only full days away from the UK that I need to input? I had many small trips for business, and the number potentially doubles if I include the flight days as full days away
For example, if I leave London Friday night, out of town Saturday, out of town Sunday, return Monday morning:
-Is this 4 full days away? That is what the application calculates if I put in Friday/Monday.
-Seems like it is only 2 full days out of the UK
Many thanks in advance
Departure and arrival days don't count.
In your example it's 2 days, Fri and Mon are travel days out/return.
Re: URGENT Calculating days away - whole days or including days of departure/return?
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 6:05 pm
by pixgyp5
Ok cool, it counts as 2 days
So for clarification, should I put in the Friday departure date or Saturday departure date (the first full day)
And Sunday return date, or Monday return date
Re: URGENT Calculating days away - whole days or including days of departure/return?
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 6:11 pm
by alterhase58
Think of it differently: Full days start Saturday - finish Sunday.
Re: URGENT Calculating days away - whole days or including days of departure/return?
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:19 am
by contorted_svy
pixgyp5 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 6:05 pm
Ok cool, it counts as 2 days
So for clarification, should I put in the Friday departure date or Saturday departure date (the first full day)
And Sunday return date, or Monday return date
You have to put in the actual dates you departed and came back, but only count as days of absence the days you were fully absent (so in this example, departure is Friday, coming back Monday, 2 days of absence)
Re: URGENT Calculating days away - whole days or including days of departure/return?
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:14 pm
by Ticktack
The system sums it up for you when you add your exact departure/ arrival date. You don't need to do the mental sum.