Hi All - First of all I apologise for having to open a new topic for my questions - I could not find matching results for my degree related question anywhere in this thread. I have been following on the topics for almost 3 months and since its just abt the time to apply did not want to miss out from clarifying. I would be very grateful to anyone who can help/guide me on the 3 clarifications I require.
1) I hold a UK Master's degree and I am using this for claiming points for qualification. Since the points calculator automatically picks up this course for my english requirement, I have decided to use this for my english requirement as well (Although my under graduation degree has been certified by NARIC as equivalent to UK honours and the university is listed in the drop down for english requirement, it wont let me claim 10 points during the calculation for some reason). I also intend to claim 5 points for my UK experinece with the same master's degree used for qualification (I am getting a separate letter from the university to confirm start and end dates of the course, also mentioning that it was full time)
Now my question is, would it be sufficient if I mention that I have attached the degree certifcate in the qualifications section, while writing the covering letter for english requirement and UK experience? Please clarify
2) Secondly I wanted to confirm on the currency conversion during the previous earnings points calculation for Overseas salary (India in my case). Are we supposed to convert the gross salary of every month to Pounds and total it up and do the adjustment (multiply by 5.3) or would it be the sum of the gross for 12 months INR salary and then conversion and adjustment. The reason I am asking is because i am able to claim 45 points if I do it using the first method, or if done with total I get 40 points. So which is the right way of doing it ? Please clarify
3) Finally I have seen a couple of posts in the forum about the maintenance Funds, where people mention that for Indian applicants this should not overlap with salary period . So advising to show salary for a 12 month period and show the maint funds for a separate 3 month perid. making it 15 months in all.
I am showing my maintenence funds in the same account where my salary gets credited and plan to show the salary for a perid between July2007 and June 2008. For the maintenance funds, I am showing the 2800 pounds to be in my account for the period between April 8th till July 20th (Say I plan to apply before 27th) .
Would this be fine since I have a 2.5 months overlap with my salary period. I do not see anything like this mentioned in the guidelines for Tier 1, which is why I wanted to confirm it with someone who has obtained the Visa. Please clarify.
Many Thanks for u'r time and support!!!
Looking forward for any reply/guidance
Korey
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