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by drey2 » Thu May 02, 2013 6:17 pm
Date Details of events
January 29th 2012 My visa was due to expire on 30th January. As I had not yet received my results for my course and did not want to become an ‘Overstayer’. I submitted an application to extend my student visa.I received my results for my March 30th 2012 Tier 1 Post Study Work (PSW) visa form and additional supporting evidence sent to Home Office due to change in circumstances.
April 11th 2012 Application for student visa rejected due to maintenance funds dipping below required amount by six pounds for a total of one day.
Appeal lodged as advised by lawyer.
Appeal rejected and decision on maintenance upheld.
July 12th 2012 Permission to appeal again was refused.
September 19th 2012 permission to appeal to upper tribunal refused
December 13th 2012 Post Study Work application returned as invalid due to appeal.
what i do not understand is
My PSW form, as well as all supporting documentation, for variation was kept from April until December- over eight months- before being returned to me. Had this variation been invalid why was it kept by home office for such a long period of time? Understandably Home Office does not deal with two applications at the same time and one cannot have both an appeal and an application at the same time. However, as has been mentioned previously, this was not simply a new and separate application. Even if it had been a new application (which it was not), what would have been the reason for keeping it for three months after the student visa application was rejected and had gone through two appeals and then rejecting it on the grounds of having an appeal lodged. If because of the appeal it had become invalid, why keep it? What this has in effect done, was lengthen the gap in my stay, the very thing that I wanted to avoid. and again
It was my understanding that while an application has yet to be decided, the applicant can, should his circumstances change, submit a new application if or vary the grounds of his application. However, given that my leave had by this time expired, my only option was to vary the grounds of my application. This was my intent as was stated in my Tier 1 PSW form which you ought to have on file and I believed was in the guidelines to do so, given that I had met all the requirements to vary my application. i was also refunded wrongly was paid refund for my student visa extension instead of psw .
PLS I NEED A GOOD ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO.