Tier 2 Settlement
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:49 am
Dear members, could you please clerify the followings?
Tier 2 Policy Guidance 4/2016
Part 10: rule 265 page 61
265.You will be exempt from the minimum earnings threshold if any of the following apply to you:
Your continuous 5 year period includes all or part of a grant of leave as a qualifying work permit holder, or as a Tier 2 migrant where your Certificate of Sponsorship was assigned before 6 April 2011;
You have been employed in a job:
that appears on the Shortage Occupation List in Appendix K, or has appeared on that list during any time you were being sponsored to do that job during the last 6 years; .............
If the part of time of 5 years most recent leave is formed by the time spent on the cos which was issued before April 2011, isnt the applicant exempted from £35k income criteria?
Tier 2 Policy Guidance 4/2016
Part 10: rule 265 page 61
265.You will be exempt from the minimum earnings threshold if any of the following apply to you:
Your continuous 5 year period includes all or part of a grant of leave as a qualifying work permit holder, or as a Tier 2 migrant where your Certificate of Sponsorship was assigned before 6 April 2011;
You have been employed in a job:
that appears on the Shortage Occupation List in Appendix K, or has appeared on that list during any time you were being sponsored to do that job during the last 6 years; .............
If the part of time of 5 years most recent leave is formed by the time spent on the cos which was issued before April 2011, isnt the applicant exempted from £35k income criteria?