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JackPot wrote:Hi
I received my HSMP approval, I am based in South Africa. I need to enter the UK during November/December to avoid my EC lapsing (for which I still need to apply)
Question around my first entry into the UK: since I would like to be home for Christmas in SA, would the customs officials accept it that my first visit to the UK based on HSMP EC would be a short one, i.e. only to go to the UK to look for employment during end of November for say 2 weeks (job-hunting, interviews etc.), to return early in 2006 to commence with such employment? So I need to enter the UK purely to "activate" my EC, and then return in the new year: would that be acceptable?
Also, how important is it to have proof of accommodation?
Thanks
JackPot
If your HSMP approval letter is dated 8 June 2005, you have three months from that date to apply for the EC, which means you have until 8 September 2005 to apply. If you choose to apply around that time, you can then additionally post date the EC for another three months, which gives you 6 months of total time. The date that your EC is post dated to, that is when your one year deadline starts to tick.JackPot wrote:Thank you for the response.
My dates are as follows:
HSMP approval letter dated 8 June 2005
So I have until 8 September to apply for EC, correct?
And therefore I MUST enter the UK before 8 December correct? Otherwise the HSMP approval as well as the EC will lapse...
That is how I understand it...
JackPot wrote:Thank you for the response.
My dates are as follows:
HSMP approval letter dated 8 June 2005
So I have until 8 September to apply for EC, correct?
And therefore I MUST enter the UK before 8 December correct? Otherwise the HSMP approval as well as the EC will lapse...
That is how I understand it...