Professional courses

I own another thread here (and that still hasn't been resolved) but thought I should make a new one for this topic as it is quite different.

If the course I'm undertaking is a professional course (i.e. the BPTC, a compulsory course to become a barrister), and I already have a job waiting (pupillage), how should I present this at the credibility interview?

On one hand, I landed this job long before I graduated from my previous course. And it is a requirement that all barristers in the UK take the BPTC. So I'm obviously not applying for the Tier 4 to stay and find work. I am a genuine student as my job mandates me to take the course.

On the other hand, you could technically say that I am taking this course so that I can eventually work here (since all barristers in the UK need to take the course). So will telling them that I already have this job make them think I'm not a genuine student?

I know this sounds confusing. Hopefully someone can give some advice...

You are probably overthinking this.
Caseworkers will have come across this situation before.

Simply prepare your bundle and be sure to explain the situation, in a skeleton argument if you will;
their lordships will surely intimate if they wish to hear more than a brief summary of the facts.
I rest my case.

noajthan wrote:You are probably overthinking this.
Caseworkers will have come across this situation before.

Simply prepare your bundle and be sure to explain the situation, in a skeleton argument if you will;
their lordships will surely intimate if they wish to hear more than a brief summary of the facts.
I rest my case.

Hahahah thank you noajthan.

I think you should know that your sig has brought me no small degree of comfort during this whole period

hi, just wondering which visa route you went after your bptc? t5 gae?, bearing in mind the requirement of a degree for t5 in Gae from a student route. my friend got refused on t5 with a bptc degree saying that its not a degree as required by t5 Gae from student route.