10 year residency ILR - compassionate grounds advice
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:07 am
Hi all,
I have been reading the forum for a while now. As I am approaching the submission date of my application I decided to clear something for myself.
I will be applying based on a 10 year residency rule next week. I came here on July 5, 2006. I qualify on July 5, 2016 but as the rules state that I can apply 28 days in advance, I thought that I want to get this out of my way ASAP. Hence, I chose to apply on June 10.
My application would have been straightforward if it was not for the requirement to be away from the UK for less than 540 days. I was 14 years old (2004) when my father was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors gave my father 2 weeks initially. However, he survived. In about a year (2005) it became evident that my father will die. It was a matter of time, he was struggling. My parents did not want me to see my how my dad is slowly dying. So i was sent here in 2006 to study GCSE (1 year fast-track course). Up until his death in June 2008 I travelled back and forth every half term and sometimes outside of the term dates to see him. I treated every trip as my last chance to say goodbye. He changed with every trip I made and everntually he died in 2008 during my AS-level exams. After his death I was in depression and saw school counseling service. I was allowed to travel outside the term dates because my mother and I needed each other to overcome such a tragic event. As you probably understand by now (if you had the time read all of the above), I would like to exercise compassionate grounds. I have a death certificate stating the cause of death and the period of illness. My school is also preparing documents to prove that this indeed happened and that I struggled a lot during A-levels and GCSEs.
After that I only travelled back to the country where I was born a couple of times. However, I would still like to waive a few of those trips as well. For example, twice I travelled back to the "home country" because I was not allowed to switch from Tier 5 (Government authorised exchange) to Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) in the UK. I treat this as a forced leave. I had to cancel my rental agreement and find storage for my things. I would have applied in the UK if I had the chance. On another occasion, I had to travel back to the "home country" to change my passport to a new one as I turned 20 years old (that's a requirement of that country).
If I waive trips taken due to my father dying / berievement period, Tier 5 to Tier 1 forced out of country application, Tier 4 to Tier 5 forced out of country and the trip to change my passport, I will have 400 days. However, if I include those trips, I will have 617 days.
I have the stamps for all the trips taken from 2010. However, I do not have my previous passport which covers the period between 2006 and 2010. Having said that, I did a SAR request where I noticed that I indicated all the trips I took between 2006 and 2009 back in 2009 when I still had my old passport. That leaves the 2009 to 2010 period for which I requested a rental agreement from my university for my room on campus. It will show the dates for which I paid.
If anyone was patient enough to read through all of the above, what are your thoughts on my case? I have 2 MScs and a BSc from top 15-20 business schools. I also worked in IB for a year and now set up my own advisory firm. I have references from my friends (all British) and will request references from my past employers.
I have been reading the forum for a while now. As I am approaching the submission date of my application I decided to clear something for myself.
I will be applying based on a 10 year residency rule next week. I came here on July 5, 2006. I qualify on July 5, 2016 but as the rules state that I can apply 28 days in advance, I thought that I want to get this out of my way ASAP. Hence, I chose to apply on June 10.
My application would have been straightforward if it was not for the requirement to be away from the UK for less than 540 days. I was 14 years old (2004) when my father was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors gave my father 2 weeks initially. However, he survived. In about a year (2005) it became evident that my father will die. It was a matter of time, he was struggling. My parents did not want me to see my how my dad is slowly dying. So i was sent here in 2006 to study GCSE (1 year fast-track course). Up until his death in June 2008 I travelled back and forth every half term and sometimes outside of the term dates to see him. I treated every trip as my last chance to say goodbye. He changed with every trip I made and everntually he died in 2008 during my AS-level exams. After his death I was in depression and saw school counseling service. I was allowed to travel outside the term dates because my mother and I needed each other to overcome such a tragic event. As you probably understand by now (if you had the time read all of the above), I would like to exercise compassionate grounds. I have a death certificate stating the cause of death and the period of illness. My school is also preparing documents to prove that this indeed happened and that I struggled a lot during A-levels and GCSEs.
After that I only travelled back to the country where I was born a couple of times. However, I would still like to waive a few of those trips as well. For example, twice I travelled back to the "home country" because I was not allowed to switch from Tier 5 (Government authorised exchange) to Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) in the UK. I treat this as a forced leave. I had to cancel my rental agreement and find storage for my things. I would have applied in the UK if I had the chance. On another occasion, I had to travel back to the "home country" to change my passport to a new one as I turned 20 years old (that's a requirement of that country).
If I waive trips taken due to my father dying / berievement period, Tier 5 to Tier 1 forced out of country application, Tier 4 to Tier 5 forced out of country and the trip to change my passport, I will have 400 days. However, if I include those trips, I will have 617 days.
I have the stamps for all the trips taken from 2010. However, I do not have my previous passport which covers the period between 2006 and 2010. Having said that, I did a SAR request where I noticed that I indicated all the trips I took between 2006 and 2009 back in 2009 when I still had my old passport. That leaves the 2009 to 2010 period for which I requested a rental agreement from my university for my room on campus. It will show the dates for which I paid.
If anyone was patient enough to read through all of the above, what are your thoughts on my case? I have 2 MScs and a BSc from top 15-20 business schools. I also worked in IB for a year and now set up my own advisory firm. I have references from my friends (all British) and will request references from my past employers.