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When I called my university's international office and asked about what I needed to do after getting my degree, they told me I had up to a year to apply for the PWS. I thought this meant I was allowed to stay in the country up to a year. Some of my friends told me this was wrong and they had to get PWS after 4 months because you have 4 months after finishing your course, but I found out today this only applies for 12 month courses and mine was 11.sparta wrote:I don't mean to imply anything but how come you don't know when is your visa expiring. It's in your passport. You can submit an out of time PSW application but you will not have right to appeal in case of a refusal for whatever reason, its basically depends n the discretion of the case worker. And for instance you submit your application tomorrow, the biometrics can take up sometime. Some of my friends had their biometrics after 2 weeks of posting their application. In case of refusal your fee will not be refunded.
I'm confused, are you saying I can make an application and may be accepted so long as it's before 28 days have passed?you can make application anytime before 28 days of expiry date on your visa.
if the date of application posted via royal mail is before 28 days have elapsed, then they , by law, have to consider your app and you will not be rejected purely because you made out-of-time application
My advice:hieunguyen wrote:Hello arsebal49,
I'm in a similar situation as xyzed's, my visa is only valid until 30/11/2011 and due to some paperwork problem at my university, they cannot provide me with a PSW letter until 5/12/2011 despite the fact that I have completed my MSc course and will be graduating this December. So, if I apply for the PSW visa, say, on 6/12/2011, would they still treat my application as "in time"?
No. You must apply BEFORE 30/11/2011, otherwise you will be termed an overstayer! Will you get your certificate/letter on6/12/2011. Will it say you have passed your course?It must not be a provisional certificate
Sorry I donn't get what you mean by "within 28 days of the expiry date", do you mean "within 28 days from the expiry date" of the visa? In my case it would be until 28/12/2011?
Correct. But you wont get the right to appeal the refusal, if you apply as an "over stayer".
And where can I find more information on this? I have tried the UKBA's webpage but couldn't find anything useful.
Its in the immigration law. don't have a link. search on this forum
Thank you very much.
Hieu Nguyen
hieunguyen wrote:Hi arsenal49,
thank you very much for the quick reply. There is still something that I'm not clear about.
If I sent the application in the evening of 30/11 using 2nd class recorded Royal Mail and let's say they received my application on 3/12, would they immediately reject my application due to lack of documents (the PSW letter from the university) regardless of the visa fee?
It will take them at least few days to figure out if your application is VALID or not. I think, first step for UKBA is to take the money out and then figure if you have submitted a valid app or not (in my experience at least, i could be wrong here). So you have already got 5 days to play with, at least!
And if they send the (rejected) application back on 4/12 using first class recorded and it gets back to me on 6/12 while the "Change of Circumstances" Form is currently on the way (with Special Delivery), will it have any effect on the application any more?
If they have sent back application... well your change of circum form will not have much effect and you can consider yourself extremely unlucky. Onus is upon the applicant to provide them with all the docs at the time of submitting original app. Remember you are trying to circumvent a system here to ensure you dont fall foul of the rules.
By the way, the probability of them sending app back, as invalid, so soon, is next to none!
With regards,
Hieu Nguyen