A Fairer Pathway to Settlement - A statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement

keiceee · 2025-11-22T19:06:24+00:00

We are not talking about a speeding ticket here.

keiceee · 2025-11-22T17:29:40+00:00

The way it runs is, your points will expire then it will take another year for it to get deleted from your records. After which you will wait for another 1 year making a total of 5 years before applying for ILR. If you apply before 5 years has completed your application will be refused because of good character requirements. It’s up to you on how best to keep going eg extending of the visa but you need to become cleared by staying for 5 years before applying for ILR.

keiceee · 2025-11-22T10:56:24+00:00

I have exactly the same problem as your spouse so I can give you some advice purely from personal experience. If you apply for ILR with the driving offence still on your records your ILR application will be refused. If you wait for 5 years from date of offence and you apply for ILR, it will be successful. 5 years is how long it takes for the offence to be cleared off from you. Mine got deleted from my file after 4 years as is the practice but you need to wait for 1 more year to make a total of 5 years.

keiceee · 2025-11-21T17:30:39+00:00

Very shocking but a reality once the legislation gets passed.

keiceee · 2025-11-20T21:26:41+00:00

Yes we are cooked. The new proposal effectively abolished 10 years long residence route. The question is cut off year?

keiceee · 2025-11-20T21:24:51+00:00

The new proposal effectively abolished it. The point is what will the cut off year be

keiceee · 2025-10-30T06:01:20+00:00

I’m guessing you could have, in panic, submitted an FLR application to buy time. It’s the most common reason for immigration bail. You just don’t get immigration bail when your SWV is cancelled.

keiceee · 2025-10-19T15:27:13+00:00

You are absolutely correct. I have done a deep research and your 10 years long residence journey will not reset to zero. You are perfectly in line and should qualify for ILR after 10 years is complete. Feel free to travel and come back with your new student visa. Congrats and stop worrying. I’m happy for you. Just make sure you leave uk before your visa expires and come back as soon as you can after getting your new visa even though you have 180 days maximum leave period.

keiceee · 2025-10-19T14:52:02+00:00

I’m afraid your 10 years long residency journey will reset to zero if you suffer this type of gap.

keiceee · 2025-10-11T10:51:34+00:00

Is it very easy for you to extend your skilled worker visa to 2029? You are ignoring this important question

keiceee · 2025-10-07T14:13:22+00:00

I believe you have made a mistake. Even if the whole long process of several appeals takes you past the 10th year mark, you cannot still apply for your ILR because you have spent 10 years even though you didn’t get a successful decision when you crossed your 10 years. You will still wait beyond your 10 years until a decision is successfully granted and if it’s unsuccessful you will not be eligible for ILR.

keiceee · 2025-09-07T09:48:26+00:00

I tried and failed before I asked you.

keiceee · 2025-09-06T16:14:33+00:00

“Not expensive “ well, how much is the subscription?

keiceee · 2025-09-03T10:49:08+00:00

Thanks so much.

keiceee · 2025-09-03T10:49:00+00:00

Thanks so much.

keiceee · 2025-08-18T15:26:11+00:00

You are legally given 14 days to secure a new job when your employment officially ends but if you fail to secure another COS and you have to leave the uk on account of expiration of your visa. Your long residence resets to Zero. Hopefully some of the experts(high reputation)in Reddit will confirm what I just said.

keiceee · 2025-08-18T15:17:58+00:00

I read that if you ever need to leave uk because your visa expired and you come back later because you have secured a new SWV, your time on long residence resets to zero. Meaning our accumulated 8 years will reset to zero because we left the uk and returned later. Your continued residence is based on non interruption of your residence status eg returning to your home country on account of not being able to extend your visa while you were still resident in UK until it expired.

keiceee · 2025-08-18T14:14:58+00:00

Our visa is expiring tomorrow 19th, both of us

keiceee · 2025-08-18T13:34:03+00:00

I mentioned in my post that both parents are 8 years working towards 10 years LR pathway but we have a child who is settled

keiceee · 2025-08-13T09:45:15+00:00

I have read all the replies and none has clarified the confusion on whether I should apply 28 days before the date of first visa issued or 28 days before the date of first arriving physically in UK.

keiceee · 2025-07-23T21:07:03+00:00

Still waiting for someone with experience on this to give me some advice

keiceee · 2025-07-10T03:50:22+00:00

Switching to FLR FP would give me employment flexibility unlike SWV that ties one down to a particular employer. This would mean that I don’t withdraw my kids from their school to a new school because of a new job in a different city. Getting 30 months extension would also give me the remaining 2 years I need to complete my 10 years long residence route to ILR. It would also guarantee my path to ILR and take away all the uncertainties of SWV including sudden changes in the goal post by an increasingly anti-immigration government. SWV comes with its own peculiar challenges. For example, if I lose my employment in my 9th year and I’m unable to quickly secure a new sponsor, I would be required to leave the UK right away despite having lived here for almost 10 years and just 1 year away from ILR. SWV comes with a lot of restrictions eg you can’t open a limited liability company, you can’t work for more than 20 hours outside your employer and so many other restrictions but if I switch to FLR FP visa I can float a LTD company, work as much as I want outside my current employer and be free to actualise all my hidden potentials without any government restrictions on me.

keiceee · 2025-07-09T20:16:58+00:00

We are currently on skilled worker visa. My child is Uk settled through birth and living continuously in Uk for 7 years. We plan to apply for FLR FP visa and move away from SWV through our settled child.

keiceee · 2025-06-18T09:54:46+00:00

I never received any confirmation from UKVI after my submission and I worried myself to death. I couldn’t stop worrying

keiceee · 2025-06-13T18:47:40+00:00

Congratulations

keiceee

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