ACCA students under T4, can i switch to T2?

[vinny]

Interesting.

(iii) The applicant must have studied the course referred to in (d)(i) during:

(1) his last grant of leave, or

(2) a period of continuous leave which includes his last grant of leave.

More thoughts:

If (1) is always true, then (2) is redundant.

Therefore, (2) may be true when (1) is false.

(2) states the applicant must have studied the course referred to in (d)(i) during a period of continuous leave which includes his last grant of leave. It cannot mean that the applicant must have studied the course during his last grant of leave, as this is already covered by (1).

Therefore, (2) must mean that the applicant could have studied (and completed) the course referred to in (d)(i) prior to his last grant of leave. The period of leave in which he had completed the course must be continuous with his last grant of leave.

[Greenie]

It looks as if ILPA have written to ukba about this issue however the correspondence is for members only...

http://www.ilpa.org.uk/resources2.php?a ... &&page=389

[manci]

the correspondence doesn't address the issue under discussion which, I suppose, only concerns the fact that the OP had a T1 PSW leave between two T4 leaves (all applied for in-time) - the question being whether this broke continuity. If he only had a succession of T4 leaves I think there would be no question about his eligibility to switch to T2 even if he didn't study for his bachelors degree during his last (current) leave.

In my view if the OP applied to switch to T2 during his current T4 leave UKBA could not refuse it by reference to 245HD (d)(iii)

The quote from UKCISA (above) suggests the same.


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