Hi!

My partner and I are considering long term travel, we’ve both travelled extensively but never for more than 6 months ish. Im Canadian and he’s British, and we live in the uk. I’m not particularly worried about this but he really, really is. I’m wondering if anybody has any guidance or resources about the practicalities of being gone so long in regards to calling the uk home.

Does the HMRC care if you’re gone for ages? Will you lose residency? Can you just come back easy as pie whenever you feel like it? Do you need a physical address for govt purposes like HMRC or to have access to the NHS? What if you need a background check later for job purposes, and they ask for history of address? What do you write?

Or anything else like that!

Has anybody gone long term travelling as a uk citizen and then come back? What hurdles did you encounter?

You can google your heart out but from what I’ve seen, there’s very little information out there. Any help greatly appreciated :)