To ask about the habitual residency test?

[hellokittymania]

I am being asked to prove my residency, I have paid rent for over three years, have pink council tax since 2015, have a student ID that's expired, I have a library card, which is not something listed in the documents they want, but I can send it if it helps And I am an officer on our local disability board, which I can also get proof of. Again, not something they were asking for in their last, sorry list of documents. They were asking me how long I have been outside of the UK with in the past three years, I have been outside of the UK on four occasions that were more than four weeks, two for study, and two for work. Will this be held against me? I read that you could be out for longer. If it was for medical reasons. House anybody past the habitual residency test under these circumstances?

By the way, I forgot to add that I don't have a tenancy agreement. Could I just asked my landlady to write a letter.

If you're a UK resident then why worry?

Because I think they will hold the periods I've spent outside of the UK against me. And I don't have the specific documents they want. My student card is expired, but I do have one. I have other things I can send comments is not the things they want.

I'm a British citizen by the way, so I have the right to reside here. But I need to pass the residency test

Have you been to places who stamp your passport in and out? Can you get hold of plane tickets for your period out of the uk?
I'm currently having to prove it the other way round - that I'm not habitually resident, and those are the things used, tho I'm guessing this isn't HMRC who want you to prove residency?? On that note, have you paid UK tax? Is that enough to show residency?

Doings of sand, we're talking about Southeast Asia, stamp happy countries. The organization I run isn't based in the UK either. Which will go against me. I just started paying taxes in the UK this year. I have to prove two out of the three years that I've been a resident. But they were asking if I had been outside of the country for more than four weeks at a time, which I have on four occasions since the beginning of 2016. And they weren't for medical reasons.

I am in the process of setting up the CIC in the UK, but that paperwork won't be done until the end of July probably.