The BA don't accept academic certificates in lieu of degree certificates (diplomas). I sent a certified translation (ie an English translation done by a certified translator, not one issued by the university) with the degree certificate (which was in Latin). AG
There is, of course, no doubt that benefits form part of remuneration. However, it does not follow that all forms of remuneration for salaried employees count as gross earnings - and that's where the argument that employer-paid superannuation may be counted as part of gross earnings, falls down. One...
This doesn't sound quite right. Pension contributions that an employer makes on an employee's behalf, are not considered part of the employee's earnings; they are benefits. I had a previous employer who listed employer contributions to superannuation in the payslip, but the caseworker explicitly did...
The problem is not so much the US visa refusal itself (which would have to be disclosed, in any case); rather, the problem is that alien smuggling is an aggravated felony in the US that normally results in a mandatory custodial sentence and/or fine, deportation/removal, and a lifetime bar from the c...
Re certifying the payslips: if HR won't certify the online payslips, further options include (a) demanding originals or (b) asking your line/group/department manager to certify the online payslips instead. Re self-employment: this will not be possible for those who are in salaried employment, leavin...
The image captures are not meant to serve as bank statements or the like, hence no logo etc. The image captures I received from my bank also showed (separately from the image) the amount, the account from which the funds were to be paid, the (posting) date, and the cheque number. The fact that my ba...
I had the same problem for some consulting work for which I had been paid by paper cheque. To demonstrate that the cheques were deposited into my account, my bank issued their image captures of each of the paper cheques (which were usually dated one day after I had deposited them). So if you deposit...
You might also include your bank statements for July 05 - June 06. The tax forms don't exactly cover your claimed earnings period, so they might not be appropriate as separate pieces of evidence that confirm your earnings.
AG
See p20 of the Tier 1 application: E1. Has the applicant had any criminal convictions in the United Kingdom or any other country (including traffic offences) or any civil judgments made against them? But if your unpaid credit-card debt resulted in a civil judgment, then that should be disclosed. And...
But if your unpaid credit-card debt resulted in a civil judgment, then that should be disclosed. And being unaware of a civil judgment possibly issued in absentia, may not be considered an acceptable reason for nondisclosure. AG
Your initial post mentions submission of your marriage certificate and your son's birth certificate; is it possible that your EC rejection on maintenance-funds grounds might be related to not having maintained sufficient funds for the dependent visas, in addition to funds (min. 2800) for your own ma...
The caseworker might take a dim view of your (mis)representing your income as 'Indian', when in fact you have been living and working in the UK, as your passport's work-permit endorsement, Home Office records, UK bank statements, and any verification from your employer would suggest. Under HSMP, you...
The HSMP team have not been entirely consistent in their interpretation of the 'last 15 months'. I seem to think that the Tier 1 forms stipulate full calendar months, but the HSMP forms do not. Two US-based cases from last year: dearamitg used CY2006 tax returns and submitted a successful applicatio...
Switching from HSMP to WP appears no longer to reset the settlement clock. See the updated rules for Indefinite leave to remain for a work permit holder . 134. Indefinite leave to remain may be granted on application to a person provided: (i) he has spent a continuous period of 5 years lawfully in t...
[...] London [...] is a nasty, dirty, overpopulated, expensive, violent city and i cannot wait to leave. This made me laugh; surely one can't have forgotten that Miss Intrigued lives in New York ?!?! If you (Miss Intrigued) can qualify for HSMP/Tier 1, then by all means you should consider coming. ...
See the updated rules for Indefinite leave to remain for a work permit holder . 134. Indefinite leave to remain may be granted on application to a person provided: (i) he has spent a continuous period of 5 years lawfully in the UK, of which the most recent period must have been spent with leave as a...
You have been in the UK for most, if not the whole, of your claimed earnings period, so you should claim earnings in band A, not band D. See paragraphs 42 and 43 in the guidance notes. It would scarcely be a good idea to misrepresent the truth by suggesting that you were in India, when in fact you w...
You will not be able to apply for HSMP approval at the consulate or embassy; if you want to come to the UK on HSMP, you will have to submit an application with supporting documents to the HSMP team in Sheffield. Only after obtaining initial approval could you then approach the consulate in LA (since...
I appreciate the notion that individuals should demonstrate involvement in their communities and the validity of this expectation in the naturalisation process. But what this thread fails to acknowledge is that would-be citizens are very likely already to be involved in their communities on some lev...
Firstly, I am sorry to hear of the refusals. The grounds for refusal seem odd, but a number of cases have been cited on this board where caseworkers have made determinations about substantive degree work and equivalency, seemingly outside the NARIC framework. Some have been like yours (finishing a f...
A few years ago, they created that Register of Education and Training Providers, as distinct from the recognised/listed bodies in the DfES register. The list hasn't been considered entirely reliable, almost since its creation. See Geoffrey Alderman's comment in the Guardian: Don't put reputable inst...
The assessment of whether migrants were able to support themselves without recourse to public funds was always in ECOs' remit. The emphasis in the past was on short-term viability; the long-term viability was implicit and arguably secondary, perhaps until now. Now that HC321 has laid out requirement...
You'll remember that before HC321, the immigration rules never specified what HSMP migrants needed to have in available funds (for short-term maintenance), and seemed to leave this largely to ECOs' discretion. Likewise, the fact that these further requirements (referring to long-term viability) may ...
