Thank you both for your thoughtful replies.
hsmphopeful, I agree with your response, except that my questions to HO are not for immigration advice, but clarification of how to understand their forms! -- unlesss that's the same thing as immigration advice. Otherwise, you are most certainly correct about inquiry emails being given little thought or time.
atwoodclan -- I guess you are talking about
both claiming points for past earnings
and your response to question number 13 in the HSMP application form about expected earnings, yes?
So--
For
claiming points, you showed 12 months' payslips and the tax forms.
For
questions number 13, you submitted 3 months worth of bank statements to show that you can sustain yourself without recourse to public funds, and 10 job advertisements to substantiate what you claimed would be your anticipated income in the UK.
Am I correct? I notice that you
didn't say that you submitted a budget of anticipated expenses.