Showing two bank statements for fund maintenance

[tier2_tier1]

Hi,

I came to UK 2 months back under tier2(ICT). I want to switch to tier1(Gen).

I have the following queries:

1) For last 12 month salaries, can I show both India and UK salaries? ie., 10 months of India and 2 months UK.
2) For maintenance fund - My India salary account balance never went below 2000 GBP for the past 3-4 months. My UK salary account balance never went below 800 GBP for the past 2 months. Can I show a combination of two statements as maintenance fund?

[neosumit]

Yes you can!!!

I had submitted bank account statements from 3 accounts!!

Get 2 letters (stamped and signed by the bank official), one from each bank with the same 'FROM date' and 'TO date', stating that

1. Account A holds always 2000+ GBP (or INR equivalent) since 'From date' to 'To date'.

2. Account B hold always 800+ GBP (or INR equivalent) since 'From
date' to 'To date'.

You can also attach the bank statements (stamped and signed).

Be very careful about the dates , In your case you need to get the statements with coinciding dates only otherwise the caseworker would interpret that you either held only 2000 or 800 GBP for the 'non interlapping' period of the two bank statements.

Best of luck!

[rakeysh.patel]

As quoted by Sumit, you are allowed to use many as statement to cover the amount you need as maintenance funds. I had done it (UK + Indian bank account)

What I would suggest, make an excel sheet summarising the day)date) the funds dipped below the required amount and next column indicating the amount (£1500), next column for your balance in second account (£550) and than last column indicating the total fund for that particular day.

If you intend to use Indian bank account, use www.onada.com for converting the currency. At bottom of the excel sheet mention the Source - www.onada.com (it is the official website used by UKBA for such purposes.

Good Luck

[neosumit]

I had created a similar excel as pointed by raxs1983.

However the case worker had rejected my application without looking into the details. The excel had the sum of all amounts for all the day for the 3 month period from 1 June 2010 till 31st Aug 2010.

The caseworker did a mistake of adding my minimum individual balance of different dates and didn't award me any points for maintenance funds.

I had to file an admin review and then I got the decision in my favour.

So I suggest, if you take statements and in your case if min(Account A for 3 months) + min(Account B for 3 months) > 2800 GBP, then show it that way and you would be through!

In my case, the caseworker would have to add the amounts for every single day to find if I held 2800 or not. So your case is simpler!

[tier2_tier1]

Thanks to all those who replied.

How do you take the exchange rate? Should the exchange rate be taken of the day the maintenance fund certificate was prepared?

[neosumit]

Please read the policy guidance on UKBA site.

Data of application's conversion date is to used be for maintenance funds.