UKMigration
Registered Users (C)
If you have been living legally in the UK between two to five years now, you can ask for an “Indefinite Leave to Remain”, this is, a permit to settle here.
You can apply for this permit depending on your current immigration category, here is a list of the application forms available and which one applies to what:
SET(M)
This form is for people wanting to settle as husband, wife, civil partner, or unmarried/same-sex partner of a UK citizen or someone who is settled here.
SET(F)
For family members of UK citizens or someone settled here, who want to settle in the UK.
SET(DV)
This is the settlement application for victims of domestic violence. You use this form if you have temporary permission to live here as someone’s partner, and the relationship ends because of abuse.
SET(BUS)
This form is used to apply for settlement as a retired person of independent means or as the sole representative of an overseas company.
SET(O)
This one is used for the following cases if you have been living here for five years:
- Tier 1 or 2 of the points-based system, except the post-study work category of Tier 1
- Work permit holder
- Business person
- Innovator
- Investor
- Representative of an overseas newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization
- Private servant in a diplomatic home
- Domestic worker in a private home
- Overseas government employee
- Minister of religion, missionary, or member of a religious order
- Airport-based operational personnel of an overseas-owned airline
- Self-employed lawyer
- Writer, composer or artist
- UK ancestry
- Highly skilled migrant under the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP)
- Former members of HM forces, if they have lived in the UK for 4 years
- Bereaved partners, this is, partners of UK citizens or persons settled here with temporary permission to remain in the UK but whose partners have died
- Other purposes or reasons not covered in other forms
ECAA 2
This form is for Turkish citizens who are in the UK under the rules of the European Community Association Agreement with Turkey for establishing a business in the UK. Your dependants can be included in this form. If they apply separately, they should use form ECAA 3.
ECAA 4
This form is for Bulgarian or Romanian citizens who are established in business in the UK under the European Community Association Agreement (ECAA) terms.
ELR
This form should be used if:
- You were given an “exceptional leave to enter” or “exceptional leave to remain”, in other words, temporary permission to stay in the UK for exceptional reasons.
- The “exceptional leave” was given for 4 years or more before April 1st, 2003.
- You are afraid to return to your home country.
HPDL
This form should be used if:
- The “exceptional leave to remain” you were given was for less than 4 years or for separate periods making 4 years in total.
- You were given a discretionary “leave to remain”.
- You were granted humanitarian protection.
For more detailed information, contact your UK Immigration Lawyer.
Please note that these articles and the information contained herein are purely for general guidance and do not constitute a professional legal or any other opinion as to the merits of a particular application or whether specific immigration requirements have been met of a particular category. This information is generic and should not be relied upon as a definitive guide to fulfilling specific category requirements. However should any individual do so it is at his or her own risk for which UK Migration Lawyers Limited cannot be held responsible in any way.
You can apply for this permit depending on your current immigration category, here is a list of the application forms available and which one applies to what:
SET(M)
This form is for people wanting to settle as husband, wife, civil partner, or unmarried/same-sex partner of a UK citizen or someone who is settled here.
SET(F)
For family members of UK citizens or someone settled here, who want to settle in the UK.
SET(DV)
This is the settlement application for victims of domestic violence. You use this form if you have temporary permission to live here as someone’s partner, and the relationship ends because of abuse.
SET(BUS)
This form is used to apply for settlement as a retired person of independent means or as the sole representative of an overseas company.
SET(O)
This one is used for the following cases if you have been living here for five years:
- Tier 1 or 2 of the points-based system, except the post-study work category of Tier 1
- Work permit holder
- Business person
- Innovator
- Investor
- Representative of an overseas newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization
- Private servant in a diplomatic home
- Domestic worker in a private home
- Overseas government employee
- Minister of religion, missionary, or member of a religious order
- Airport-based operational personnel of an overseas-owned airline
- Self-employed lawyer
- Writer, composer or artist
- UK ancestry
- Highly skilled migrant under the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP)
- Former members of HM forces, if they have lived in the UK for 4 years
- Bereaved partners, this is, partners of UK citizens or persons settled here with temporary permission to remain in the UK but whose partners have died
- Other purposes or reasons not covered in other forms
ECAA 2
This form is for Turkish citizens who are in the UK under the rules of the European Community Association Agreement with Turkey for establishing a business in the UK. Your dependants can be included in this form. If they apply separately, they should use form ECAA 3.
ECAA 4
This form is for Bulgarian or Romanian citizens who are established in business in the UK under the European Community Association Agreement (ECAA) terms.
ELR
This form should be used if:
- You were given an “exceptional leave to enter” or “exceptional leave to remain”, in other words, temporary permission to stay in the UK for exceptional reasons.
- The “exceptional leave” was given for 4 years or more before April 1st, 2003.
- You are afraid to return to your home country.
HPDL
This form should be used if:
- The “exceptional leave to remain” you were given was for less than 4 years or for separate periods making 4 years in total.
- You were given a discretionary “leave to remain”.
- You were granted humanitarian protection.
For more detailed information, contact your UK Immigration Lawyer.
Please note that these articles and the information contained herein are purely for general guidance and do not constitute a professional legal or any other opinion as to the merits of a particular application or whether specific immigration requirements have been met of a particular category. This information is generic and should not be relied upon as a definitive guide to fulfilling specific category requirements. However should any individual do so it is at his or her own risk for which UK Migration Lawyers Limited cannot be held responsible in any way.