Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications from people applying on the basis of long residence in the UK.
What’s changed: The guidance has been updated to reflect when a Long Residence Permission to Stay application is to be varied to an Appendix FM or Appendix Private Life Permission to Stay application.
UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff consider indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and leave to remain applications from people applying on the basis of long residence in the UK.
This guidance is based on the Immigration Rules.
The rules on long residence recognise the ties a person may form with the UK over a lengthy period of residence here.
ILR can be granted under Appendix Long Residence after a period of 10 years’ continuous lawful residence.
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