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What the home office wants you to do is to apply for a registration certificate (RC) as a QP https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... Then after 5 years you can apply for PR https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

Whether you can skip the first part is another story, you might be able to do so if you can provide proof of continuous qualification of the QP requirements over a period of 5 years which might not be so easy to do.