lukeh8793 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 1:05 pm
There are three dates, and I don’t know which one is relevant start date of the qualifying period.
- the date of the approval of my visa - the date I was handed back my passport with my visa in it (XX April 2015 - I don’t know the exact date - presumably I must have received some approval notice but in any event I don’t have a record of it)
- the issue date of my BRP (13 June 2015)
- the “valid from” date of my visa (1 July 2015)
That’s where it gets funny. I assume my BRP Issue Date was just the date they physically produced the card, which I later had to pick up from the post office. My T2G leave didn’t start until 1 July 2015 and there was no way I could have picked up the BRP in the UK before 1 July 2015. The BRP issue date seems a little random to me.
Actually it is simple and as I suggested, you need to take the earliest date. Visa approval date in most cases is the same as the date on your visa sticker or BRP issue date. However for administrative reasons, the date of you document
could be a later date as a visa or BRP document
cannot be backdated. So if your visa was approved last week but the sticker/BP is produced or printed today, it will have the today's date (that is simply the
issue date and not necessarily the approval date). So as long as you use the earliest date, you will be perfectly safe. From the immigration rules perspective, your qualifying period starts from
the date of visa approval which may or may not be the same as your immigration document issue date.
Advice is given based on my personal research and experience only. Do NOT contact me via private message for immigration advice
