Advice required: Pretty urgent

I plan to apply for Tier1 next month. I have some basic doubts and questions on the 7 day rule for the documents to be submitted. Can someone confirm whether it is just the 3 month statement from bank for showing maintenance funds that should conform to this requirement ?

My company gives online pdf salary slips (in black and white) and I need to send it to Bangalore to get them attested since the HR guys here say they cannot attest them. The process of sending the slips and getting them back usually takes roundabout 7-10 days.

1) If the past earnings I claim for are for the period Jan 1 to Dec 31 '08, then what does the '7 day rule' actually mean..That I have to submit tier1 application by Jan 7 2009 ?
OR
attested date of Dec 08 payslip (i.e. whenever I receive it from HR) + 7 days max. Silly question I know.. but got me thinking!!

2) If the latter holds true above, then upon receipt of the attested payslips I immediately need to get the bank statement of min. 2800 GBP maintained across 3 months+attest all 12 months bank statements as well.
Both 1) and 2) above to be submitted along with tier1 form within 7 days. Am I right ? Or is it just the maintenance letter with which I should be carefull not to exceed 7 days?

3) Can someone point me to a thread which has a detailed list of documents to be submitted and procedures to be followed for Tier1 application ?

4) Lastly, there is one thread which asks the same problem as I face but it is not replied by anyone as of date. Can somone help answer it too so that I do not post a duplicate thread unnecessarily ? The link is this http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=32246

thanks in advance..

See also Guidance

Hi,

To get in to notice there is no more seven days rule, instaed its now calender one month rule. Please check the guidelines and also other threads in this forums.

You need to show the past 12 months payslips and also three months bank statements and these statements date/letters dated should not be more than the one month prior to the application date.


By having this you can submit your applicaiton at any time before the end of Jan 2009 with december 2008 payslip and bank statements dated in Jan 2009.


regards and all the best.

The new maintenance 1 month rule applies only for those who apply from within the UK.. See this ..http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/worki ... intenance/.. it is pointed out in some other threads too.. I am sticking to 7 days rule because I dont want to take any chances.. However, I am not sure whether the tier1 should be submitted within 7 days of attestation of payslips or within 7 days of receiving the payslip (i.e. 7 Jan).. In this case everyone would be applying for Tier1 within the first 7 days of every month which is not correct.. I seem to have the answer, just want a confirmation..(Better play safe than regret later!!)..

I had attested some payslips in the past from my company. I observed today that they sign and stamp it, but do not mention the date. Is the date really important in the attested payslip ??

QEF8DD wrote:The new maintenance 1 month rule applies only for those who apply from within the UK.. See this ..http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/worki ... intenance/.. it is pointed out in some other threads too.. I am sticking to 7 days rule because I dont want to take any chances.. However, I am not sure whether the tier1 should be submitted within 7 days of attestation of payslips or within 7 days of receiving the payslip (i.e. 7 Jan).. In this case everyone would be applying for Tier1 within the first 7 days of every month which is not correct.. I seem to have the answer, just want a confirmation..(Better play safe than regret later!!)..

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/aboutus/ne ... d=10358851

PBS Tier 1: evidence of maintenance funds – change in requirements (08/12/2008)
With immediate effect PBS Tier 1 applicants may submit evidence of personal savings to meet the maintenance requirement that is dated no more than one calendar month prior to the date application. Applications that have in the past been refused solely on the grounds that the accompanying evidence of maintenance funds was more than seven days old on the date of application will be reviewed. Results of reviews will be notified to relevant applicants in due course.

I enquired with a friend who has the visa with him and he told me that date on attested payslips is not mandatory and hence there is no validitity check based on days for payslips as well .. this solves all my queries except for #4. For that I think I will have to use a single exchange rate (for Dec 31 08) for th full year. I will try to ask VFS when I visit them as well.

thanks.

could someone please clarify this as i am very confused now.

i am applying for extension in jan.

regarding the 1 month or the 7 day rule for maintaince,

does all the 12 months bank statements and the letter need to be dated 1 month or 7 days prior to the application.- if it is all statements then i have to order another set again for 12 months which would say duplicate

OR

or is it just the last 3 months statements (for maintaince proof) need to be dated 1 month prior to application.

OR

is it the last statment of the 3 months (for maintaince proof) needs to be dated 1 month prior to application

thanks

krssubbu,

welcome to the party:).. I was having the same doubts as you.
what I understand is.. they want the 7day(or one month whatever it is) to check whether you can ACTUALLY hold the funds in your account without using them for a period of 3 months(i.e. whether you just credit and then debit immediately from your account for the purpose of tier1).

So... all they want to check is statement letter from bank within last 1 month(you are in UK I assume) that you have maintained minimum balance for 3 consecutive months.

I am in India, so I plan the following -
1) Letter from bank stating min. funds maintained 2800GBP across 3 months..
2) On the same date, attest all bank statements for last 12 months by personally going to bank.
3) Submit form within 7 days of above(I think it is still 7 days for ppl applying from India). In any case, the new rule doesn't affect me much..

The seniors would be able to confirm further...

cheers..

If you are applying for extension then you are in the Uk already hence:

1. Use your last 3 months bank statements for maintenance fund purposes. the third statement or the latest statement should be no more than 1 month old. Say you are applying in January 09 then your latest monthly statement should be December 08.

2. Use your existing bank statements (12 months including the last 3 mentioned in 1) as proof for your income.

3. there is no need to request for a new set of statements if you have the original ones sent by the bank.

4. the '7 day' time frame for the bank statements have been updated already and was raised to 1 month (if you're applying outside/1st time) check UKVisas website

krssubbu wrote:could someone please clarify this as i am very confused now.

i am applying for extension in jan.

regarding the 1 month or the 7 day rule for maintaince,

does all the 12 months bank statements and the letter need to be dated 1 month or 7 days prior to the application.- if it is all statements then i have to order another set again for 12 months which would say duplicate

OR

or is it just the last 3 months statements (for maintaince proof) need to be dated 1 month prior to application.

OR

is it the last statment of the 3 months (for maintaince proof) needs to be dated 1 month prior to application

thanks