carlmax2009 wrote:i did my studies from CCL....
This is a bit like forensic medicine ! The quote above may be *the* critical piece of information, so here's my best guess: The OP went to CCL (Cambridge College of Learning), gained a postgraduate diploma in business management or IT (perhaps the latter, since the OP is a 'software programmer'), and then went on to get the PSW visa on the back of that PGDip.
CCL was later determined by UKBA to have issued bogus qualifications, namely those in business management and IT (cf UKAIT 00031 from June this year, link above). The UKBA has thereafter refused applications from people from that college who did one of those two courses, and further has applied a deception-related ban on those who used either qualification to obtain leave to remain (e.g. PSW). With that decision now in place, the OP's application to switch from PSW to Tier 1 (General) would then have put him in the firing line.
It was a bit of a red herring when the OP mentioned the deception and the problem with employer verification in the same sentence, but I don't think the two were connected. The caseworker's inability to verify earnings/employment is a relatively minor problem that (a) seems most unlikely to result in a ban, and (b) was entirely overridden by the false representation of the qualification.
Do I get a gold star for making up a plausible scenario ?
