10-Year Long Residence ILR Calculator & Tracker
Check your eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) based on 10 years of continuous lawful residence in the UK.
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Long Residence Route Requirements & Scope
This calculator checks continuous residence requirements only. These other requirements for ILR under Long Residence are not checked here:
- 12 months on your current route (unless permission was granted before 11 April 2024)
- English language — B1 speaking and listening now, rising to B2 for applications made on or after 26 March 2027
- Knowledge of Life in the UK (Appendix KOL UK)
- Suitability — you must not fall for refusal under Part Suitability, and must not be in breach of immigration laws or on immigration bail
- Financial requirements — no recourse to public funds
1. Exemption Rules & Application Context
Paragraph LR 1.1 Exemption Check (12-Month Current Route Requirement)
Enforces Paragraph LR 1.1 (12-month qualifying period on current route).
Used to determine whether an extension is required prior to your ILR eligibility window.
1b. Continuity Disqualifications
These break continuous residence outright, anywhere in your 10 years — even if they happened while you held valid permission (CR 2.1 / CR 2.2).
2. Lawful Residence & Gap Builder
Define continuous visa periods and travel absences held in the UK.
3. Travel Absences & Out-of-Country Gaps
Record absences and out-of-country application gaps (CR 4.1(d)(iii)).
4. Cover Note (optional)
Printed at the top of your report, so a caseworker or adviser reads your explanation and your dates together.
Anything a caseworker should read alongside the dates — reasons for gaps, evidence you are enclosing, or corrections. Up to 4,000 characters.
Keep it to dates and documents. Please do not write about your health, medical history, or any criminal proceedings here. We store this note with your report, and it is not the place for that detail — describe the period and name the evidence instead.
Calculation Results
Frequently Asked Questions
Continuous residence means time spent in the UK without significant breaks. You are generally allowed to be outside the UK for up to 180 days in any 12-month period. For absences before April 11, 2024, total absences should not exceed 548 days, and no single absence should be longer than 184 days.
You can submit your application as soon as you meet all the eligibility requirements (usually 28 days before the 10-year anniversary of your first arrival on a qualifying visa). You must be in the UK to apply.
Time spent in the UK on a Standard Visitor visa, as a visitor without a visa, on a Short-term study visa, on a Seasonal Worker visa, or under any of the Ukraine schemes does not count towards the 10-year continuous residence period.
How an answer is produced
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What you enter
Your dates, visas, absences and circumstances.
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What we apply
The published Immigration Rules in force for those dates.
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What you see
A calculation, an explanation, and the rule it came from.
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What it cannot tell you
Whether an application will be granted, or what you should do.
What VisaExplain is not
VisaExplain is not a law firm and is not regulated to give immigration advice. It applies published rules to the information you enter. It is not a decision on your case, it does not know facts you have not given it, and it cannot tell you what to do.
How we produce our answers →Where the rules come from
Every route page cites the GOV.UK page or Immigration Rules Appendix it comes from, and every calculation records which dated policy version produced it.