change of address

Hi everyone,

Apologies if this is in the wrong place - but I figured people here would know.

Anyone know if I need to keep my address up to date these days while on ILR? I remember doing it on FLRM when I last moved about 5 years ago, but I can't even find an address that looks legit to send things to. Any ideas? I did a search on here, but the most recent information is from 2008ish. I know the paperwork that came with my BRP said to, but is it really even their business?

Thanks in advance!

(FYI, I moved back in January in a housing panic thanks to woodworm damage in Victorian floor joists - not our fault - thus I wasn't even thinking about it till recently!)

Enjoy! 

https://www.gov.uk/change-circumstances-visa-brp/youre-in-the-uk-and-have-a-brp

Danke! (Think they'll care I moved 6 months ago?)

Danke! (Think they'll care I moved 6 months ago?)

Nope.  They don't acknowledge the form.  It just eases the conscience!

Hi everyone,

Apologies if this is in the wrong place - but I figured people here would know.

Anyone know if I need to keep my address up to date these days while on ILR? I remember doing it on FLRM when I last moved about 5 years ago, but I can't even find an address that looks legit to send things to. Any ideas? I did a search on here, but the most recent information is from 2008ish. I know the paperwork that came with my BRP said to, but is it really even their business?

Thanks in advance!

(FYI, I moved back in January in a housing panic thanks to woodworm damage in Victorian floor joists - not our fault - thus I wasn't even thinking about it till recently!)

Have you thought about applying for Citizenship so that you don't have to worry about this sort of thing in the future? 

Thought as much! Thanks!

(I am - finally - applying for citizenship in a week or four, so I figured I should probably make sure everything they have is up to date.... Yes, I know I was asking after it months ago... I had everything together and then marking came in and I didn't notice I hadn't done it till I checked the bank account and it looked unusually healthy. Whoops.)

Have you thought about applying for Citizenship so that you don't have to worry about this sort of thing in the future? 

Yep. Been meaning to for ages, but the move meant suddenly I didn't have the cash, and then work got in the way once I'd save up enough (see above).

Yep. Been meaning to for ages, but the move meant suddenly I didn't have the cash, and then work got in the way once I'd save up enough (see above).

I see, yes, a lot of people put it off for literally years but it's only going to get more expensive.
Glad you're on it now, hope it's a quick application for you. 

Yeah, I got antsy after the US election, and then the suggestion that UK employers would have to report non-UK employees (I work in HE - which means they would have been ultra-compliant and probably avoided renewing non-UK employee contracts...). But, as always: money ... and then time - I ran into the whole 'can't have been out of the country 1 year prior to submission' issue as well.

A colleague of mine got his citizenship a few months back and I think he said it took about 2 and a half months, which is pretty good! I think I waited longer for ILR, to be honest.

Mine should be a straight-forward app (I am boring), and I could fill it out without having to look much of anything up. I'm hoping to do it via the nationality checking service just to get it put through faster so I can get back to conferencing, research trips, and so forth sooner rather than later. The real sticking point is references - I have plenty of people to use, but having them sign off at roughly the same time is proving rather difficult (I'm guessing a gap of no more than a month between signatures is appropriate) - getting academics to do something is harder than herding amoebas, especially in the summer...

Yeah, I got antsy after the US election, and then the suggestion that UK employers would have to report non-UK employees (I work in HE - which means they would have been ultra-compliant and probably avoided renewing non-UK employee contracts...). But, as always: money ... and then time - I ran into the whole 'can't have been out of the country 1 year prior to submission' issue as well.

A colleague of mine got his citizenship a few months back and I think he said it took about 2 and a half months, which is pretty good! I think I waited longer for ILR, to be honest.

Mine should be a straight-forward app (I am boring), and I could fill it out without having to look much of anything up. I'm hoping to do it via the nationality checking service just to get it put through faster so I can get back to conferencing, research trips, and so forth sooner rather than later. The real sticking point is references - I have plenty of people to use, but having them sign off at roughly the same time is proving rather difficult (I'm guessing a gap of no more than a month between signatures is appropriate) - getting academics to do something is harder than herding amoebas, especially in the summer...

You can't have been out of the country for more than 90 days in the year prior to submission.   

I thought sure there was a bizarre stipulation that you couldn't be out of the country exactly a year to the day you submit (I thought it sounded odd, but then, you and I both know how odd these rules sometimes are...).

I thought sure there was a bizarre stipulation that you couldn't be out of the country exactly a year to the day you submit (I thought it sounded odd, but then, you and I both know how odd these rules sometimes are...).

There is but it's not 1 year, it's 3 years.

You have to show:

- you were inside the UK exactly 3 years prior to your application date
- you haven't been outside the UK more than 270 days in those 3 years
- you haven't been outside the UK more than 90 of those 270 days in the final 12 months before applying.

When counting your days outside the UK, you don't count the day you left or the day you returned to the UK


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