Citizenship FAQs - Common Questions - Read before posting
Response to a PM posted here instead for the benefit of all:
Educate your council's NCS team that the
KOLL caseworker guidance explains to the caseworkers that Tier 2 should be selected when checking for "any" applicant's degree in the PBS calculator for English language requirements. So the NCS representative cannot expect you to provide a PBS printout that shows that you have selected Tier 1 (General) - something that doesn't exist in the list anymore. If they do not agree, best that you apply using another council's NCS and avoid the incompetency of the council's NCS members who can't even figure that out despite being (at least) OISC level 1 trained.
Apply some common sense:
1. Whether a degree meets the requirement or not is not dependant on the what category of Tier you choose from the list ... but is dependant on the degree itself! If a Tier 2 migrant fulfills the requirement by virtue of "qualification A from institution B with course length C and year of qualification D", then every migrant irrespective of his / her previous immigration category (PBS or non-PBS, principal or dependant) fulfills the requirement by virtue of having the "same" qualification.
2. Guide AN says that original certificate + printout of PBS showing 10 points is sufficient. Guide AN does not suggest or state that this "condition" is only applicable to PBS migrants or specifically only those PBS migrants belonging to categories mentioned in the drop down list! A spouse of a British citizen, a long residence ILR holder, a refugee ... everyone ..... can use the PBS calculator to check and provide evidence of fulfilling English language requirement by virtue of their degree taught or researched in English - irrespective of whether "their" immigration category is listed in the PBS calculator or not!!!!!!
