Switch from Tier 4 to Tier 2 in the UK (urgent)

[mrgong775]

Dear friends,

Could you please help have a look at my issues?

Current situation: PhD candidate, fully sponsored by a UK university, passed viva the end of October and now working on the corrections, expect to receive the PhD degree several months later.

Questions:
1. PhD students: You must have completed at least 12 months’ study for your PhD during your most recent stay in the UK and had permission to take the qualification.

Can the student certificate be regarded as 'the permission to take the qualification'?

2. You may have been sponsored in your studies by Her Majesty’s Government, your home government or any international scholarship agency. For the purpose of this section of the guidance ’sponsored’ means wholly supported by an award which covers both fees and living costs. If you have had such sponsorship within the past 12 months, you must provide us with the Government or international scholarship agency’s unconditional consent in writing, giving you their permission to remain in or re-enter the UK.

Do I need to obtain unconditional consent from my current university?

3. Can I help my dependents switch to Tier 2 dependents after I got my visa? Is there a time requirement for it? right now my family members are also in the UK with Tier 4 dependents visa.

Thanks very much for the support in advance!

[eduleal]

First of all, all information you will need will be here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 4_2016.pdf

1. You simply need to prove you have completed at least 12 months towards getting a PhD. This should be easy to get with uni transcripts and letters.

2. Only if you have been awarded such scholarship/sponsorship - is any institution paying for your fees and costs of living? In the affirmative, such institution must agree to this.

3. Your dependents should apply together with you from within the UK when you switch.

[mrgong775]

First of all, all information you will need will be here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 4_2016.pdf

1. You simply need to prove you have completed at least 12 months towards getting a PhD. This should be easy to get with uni transcripts and letters.

2. Only if you have been awarded such scholarship/sponsorship - is any institution paying for your fees and costs of living? In the affirmative, such institution must agree to this.

3. Your dependents should apply together with you from within the UK when you switch.

Thanks for the reply and sending through the latest policy document.

I receive scholarship from a UK university, so I am unsure whether it is belong to the types it mentioned. Well, I may try to get a letter from the university anyway.

Cheers!

[iworker]

I personally think u are not getting a scholarship but funding/stipend/grant.
Scholarship means things like commonwealth, chevening etc.. where the purpose and aim of scholaship is that the candidate will return to home country after completing to contribute to the society, and hence those rules.
In your case, it should be fairly straightforward.. just get a letter from uni stating that this person has been a PHD student for longer than 12 months and apply tier 2.. the letter will allow u to apply for tier 2 from within uk.