My brother has pursued his fellowship in ophthalmology (eye speciality). Can this fellowship be counted as a study period? He is planning to show his earnings prior to this fellowship, if the fellowship is considered as a study course.

The fellowship was done from the hospital and was on the job

I understand the space provided is not enough to complete the information, however you will need to somehow accommodate the information in there. If you are filling the form manually and attaching payslips and bank statements as evidence of earnings, simply put PAYSLIPS AND BANK STATEMENTS under the...

You do not need to worry about the gap in your employment as far as you have the required number of points.

Hello All, I have been an active member of this forum, and now its my time to apply. PLease advice on the below: 1. Qualification - 30 points claimed Documents Provided:  Original Bachelor’s Degree Certificate 2. Previous Earnings - 45 points claimed - Jan 1st 2008 - Dec 31st 2008. Documents p...

kundalak wrote:Harakiri What did you fill in the VAF9 (for travel date - the first thing to fill)?

25/2/2009

I had asked for the Tier 1 visa to be stamped from 15/2/2009, however it seems that the ECO did not see that I had clearly mentioned this on the covering letter and stamped the visa starting from 7/1/2009. I requested them to issue visa starting from 15/2/2009 as I will need to serve a month's notic...

Seems positive, good luck kundalak.

Did you ask for the visa to be stamped at a later date? If yes, please check the start date as there was a problem with my start date.

sureshep - please see my private message to you - thanks

Thanks kundalak and raghu0307.

I will have to serve a month's notice in my company before I leave for UK. So it will be approx. a month and a half later after which I plan to leave for UK.

My passport has arrived today with Tier 1 visa stamped ! My sincere thanks to all those forum members, who played a big role in my entire process of obtaining this visa. My best wishes to all those members who are awaiting their visas. My timelines are mentioned below again: Applied - 08/12/2008 Ver...

Some progress on my application - status is processed application, delivered through Blue Dart. I'm expecting my passport tomorrow!!

Wish me good luck buddies!!

Thanks tvn_ramesh.

Mine too the same status - Forwarded to British High Commission. I guess Bangalore VFS is quicker than Mumbai.

Not sure how long would this take. Anybody emailed Mumbai BDHC?

This is not required.

I had a similar problem when filling up the form. I asked the VFS guy what should I do about it, he told me to complete the information in the column somehow. He was not really helpful, however I understand that they are only there to accept our application and pass it to the BHC and nothing else.

This happened with me as well. The visa fees were 45k until 7/12/08 and I paid 48k on 8/12/08, when I had applied !!

It is absolutely ridiculous, that when dependants apply separate have to pay 48000 Rs. They are not doing any points calculation, they just check documents like workpermit/ HSMP dependant or any other dependant like PSW visas. I cant get my head around why we are paying 48K, BHC gaining quiet a lot...

Tier 1 visa fee from 7/1/09 will Rs. 45,000.

Sorry, but this is not to offend anyone, I have been seeing a lot in this forum that people try to make simple things too complicated.

Please do not do this at least for the sake of other members, just follow the guidance notes and you'll be fine.

Previous earnings - last day of your 12 month period

Maintenance funds - there are no clear guidelines on it in the guidance notes, however the date of application or a day prior to that is advisable.

To simplify things, submit only one covering letter with readable sections within the letter for each attribute.

You should inform him that this is not a requirement as per the Tier 1 guidance notes. Would suggest you to take a copy of the guidance notes in case he insists.

I have submitted the following: -> 12 months playslips -> Letter from Employer stating the Gross -> 12 months bank statement -> Last 3 years ITRs -> Salary Revision Letter (only becuase it was revised) 2) is better to have for reducing the caseworker's burden to calculate the gross. The caseworker ...

It is not required as your qualifications are recognised as per the self assessment tool.

Please don't mind, but we would appreciate if you can post all your application queries at one go so that it becomes easier for us to post the answers at one go rather than having different threads for it.

ITR not required if you are showing the stated documentation as evidence.