leshok wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:55 pm
Question: I was wondering how long could we travel TOGETHER outside of the UK/EU without any issue?
I gather that what you are actually asking here is for how long you can be absent form the UK, without this being considered a gap in your continuous 5 year period needed for Settled Status? If so, the answer to that is 6 months in any 12 year month period:
https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-ci ... atus-means
You’ll usually get settled status if you’ve:
- started living in the UK by 31 December 2020 (or by 29 March 2019 if the UK leaves the EU without a deal)
- lived in the UK for a continuous 5-year period (known as ‘continuous residence’)
Five years’ continuous residence means that for 5 years in a row you’ve been in the UK for at least 6 months in any 12 month period.
There are some exceptions to the above, but that refers to
force majeure motives, rather than traveling abroad as a personal choice. Is your travel imposed on you as an overseas posting for your company, for example, or is it your own choice?
We will maintain our UK address and any money we make overseas will be paid into a UK bank account (we will work remotely).
Bottom line is, if you are not paying UK tax you will not be considered as residing or working in the UK. You can of course choose to keep your UK address, this is perfectly legal, but be careful as there is a very fine grey line here. Making it "look like" you are living in the UK and earning UK salary, while in reality being abroad is to lie to the Home Office, and it is against this forum's terms of use for anyone here to advise you on how to do that.
My posts express what I believe are the facts, based on the best of my knowledge, about the topics discussed in this forum. They do not constitute immigration advice.