There are 10 ways to get indefinite leave to remain in the UK we're going to
cover them all in this live stream one by one. I'm Tom Bradford I'm a lawyer
based in the UK I'd be very happy to assist you if you want help in applying
for indefinite leave to remain. Now there are fast and slow routes let's have a
look at the fast ones. Now the fast ones gets you to indefinite
leave to remain after two or three years they are the Tier one investor route the
Tier one exceptional talent route and the entrepreneur route or or innovative
visa now the tier one root of I've given given to more detailed videos on this on
my channel that requires an investment of two five or ten million to get you
onto a two million it's five years at ten million it's two years and at five
million it's three years so that may not be a bit of relevance to everyone and
the exceptional talent route gets you and definitely to remain after three
years and the innovative visa which of course I've covered in great detail in
my other videos on this channel I guess you too indefinite leave to
remain after three years if you are on a tier 1 entrepreneur visa that you know
those have been closed down for new applications but if you are on a tier 1
entrepreneur visa there's also an accelerated route for example by
creating an 10th jobs now what I'd say is that or you don't automatically get
indefinite leave to remain you're eligible to apply after those periods
and there are certain conditions on you doing so now let's just have a look at
the slower routes which are often less challenging and they do require at five
years in the UK though. So this one is the thirty one investor as I say at two
million that gets you to indefinite leave to remain after five years I tell
one exceptional promise will rather than talent get you to
indefinite leave to remain after five years till one entrepreneur under the
standard route the tier two intra-company transfer that if you
applied under the rules for the sixth of April 2010 so it's no
longer possible if you're applying a fresh to get indefinite leave to remain
on an intra-company transfer route you can apply under the sole representative
of an overseas business for UK ancestry or I just put here other 5-year routes
to settlement include the spouse civil partner and unmarried partner I just add
that on tier one intercompany transfer of course it's possible under tier two
general to get to indefinite leave to remain after five years those are the
the ten main routes now what you may ask can you do if you're combining different
types of leave. Now I've just dealt with that here so you can combine different
immigration categories it's a possibility to rely on time you spent on
other categories to count towards your qualifying period. Now tier 2 general for
examples I just mentioned you can combine time spent in the tier 2 general
category with time Spencer tier 1 migrant save your previously on the tier
1 post study work visa or two on graduate entrepreneur visa or as a
representative of an overseas business to get to indefinite leave to remain
after five years. Now to apply for British citizenship after indefinite
leave to remain and you will be eligible to naturalize as a british it's and if
you've held a law for 12 months and spent five years in the UK so basically
in the UK there's no fast-tracked route to british citizenship you've always got
to have your five years but if you qualify under the three okay if you go
indefinite leave to remain after three years then you'll be able to apply
immediately at the fifth year to naturalize as british citizen whereas if
you've qualified for indefinitely to remain after five years then you have to
wait a further 12 months but before you can apply for british said to naturalize
as british citizen in other words at year six.
If you're married to or in civil partnership with a British citizen then
you'll be eligible to naturalizers registered and as soon as you've been
granted indefinite leave to remain and spend three years in the UK so this is
there's an exception there for family situations and and the residence
requirements for British citizenship include no absences for more than 90
days in the last 12 months and before your application so you should
better and mind him planning ahead and if you're married to or in a civil
partnership with the British suits and the total number of absences
during the whole three year period can't exceed on two hundred and seventy days
if you're not married to or in a civil partnership with the British sets in the
total number of absences during the five-year period can't exceed four
hundred and fifty days so that's important
you can't stay outside of the UK for more than 180 days in any 12-month
period now let's just have a look in a bit more detail at the application in
180 day rule so all of the slow routes if you like the five-year route I
prohibit you from spending more than 180 days outside of the UK
I'm however firmly migration routes do not have this rule at the Isle our
application stage but absences would be taken into account when applying for a
British citizenship so you can see on this infographic that a law would be
granted at year five and as for the the the infographic I've done here for the
three year period so it's a similar
journey so that those are the the key points those are the ten ways in
which you can get to indefinite leave to remain in the UK or the ten main ways if
you're considering your your options. I'm going to be I'm producing more videos on
this topic and check out my playlist as well and for other relevant topics also
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