Morning @deji2009

If you meet all the requirements (this is me assuming you know all the other requirements) and you earn £15 per hour and work for 38.5 hours per week....Trust me you’re good to go with that kind of income even as you intend to bring not just your wife but a daughter. However you must wait until you’re six months or more on the new job so the best time for you to apply should be around June 2018.

Please note that it is absolutely very important to meet all the other requirements ooo. I.e proof of marriage, communication and contacts with your spouse; proof of English language; accommodation etc. If not sure... read up this forum from page 1 to current page as gurus here always advice. Cheers and best of luck

deji2009:


Hello MreSBe and others.

I am a nurse and meet all the requirements to bring my wife and a daughter in to the UK. I started a full work on 13th of November at 38.5hrs
contact £15 phr. I wondered if I could start my application in 4 months time or wait until August or September. Thanks

Thanks for the clarification.

The paragraph in bold was what I was trying to explain earlier about what I know about how they calculate the non salaried employment....

And regarding your advice on using the non salaried employment category for my application, I think that is just what I will do..... I actually am seeking an immigration lawyer's service for my application this time around so i will make sure i run that with the lawyer as well so as to get a professional point of view.

Whitnified:

Taken from Appendix FM 1.7 (Financial Requirement) I advised you through all the pages of the document. it also gives examples

The only difference in Category A between salaried and non-salaried employment is how gross annual salary or employment income is calculated:
Where the person is in salaried employment – they must have been paid throughout the period of 6 months prior to the date of application at a level of gross annual salary which equals or exceeds the level relied upon in the application. Therefore the figure used towards the requirement will be the lowest level of annual salary received during the 6 month period.
Where the person is in non-salaried employment – the level of gross annual employment income relied upon in the application will be the annual equivalent of the person’s average gross monthly income from non-salaried employment in the 6 months prior to the date of application (where that employment was held throughout that period).

To calculate this annualised average for non-salaried employment in Category A the following calculation should be used:
(Total gross income from employment held throughout the 6 month period, divided by 6) multiplied by 12 = Income from non-salaried employment that can be counted towards the financial requirement.

for my application I am using Category A-Salaried because I know even my lowest in the 6 months exceeds. for yours you can use Category A- unsalaried as her income varied due to sick leave & overtime worked, so they will calculate it as above. Hope this helps.

You are right about "being sick not affecting the salary" but hers is like that because the period when she was sick was her probational period. Part of her employment policies is that once you are on probational period, your sick leave is not paid for.... after the six months probational period she gets paid for sick leave as well just like in your company.

True, i will definitely use the additional information page to give details lol. I just want clarifications on everything...... you know dotting the i's and crossing the t's. I am also aware that being unable to present the P60 shouldnt be a problem.

Thanks for your response always.

Minnienellie24:
To the best of my knowledge, when you are on a salary, being sick for a few days should not affect your salary except your income is based on the number of hours you worked then you are paid at month end. I am a salary earner now and i have taken some sick leaves which did not affect my salary at all.
Besides, I don't know why you are trying to complicate issues for your self. That is the essence of the additional information page. You can explain the reason(s) for the income variation for that month there. no one plans to be sick and anything could have happened. Just be as transparent as you can with your application. I did not submit any P60 with my application because i had none for the financial period I applied with (august 2016 to march 2017).

Thanks for your response again and thanks for sharing the screenshot.

What you did for your application was amazing honestly (compiling the wages and calculating it to show the total monthly earning).... the ECO at the time would be really pleased with the application cos you made his/her life easier and I’ve actually learnt from it.

If I had seen this (screenshot) before my last application in 2016, it would have helped my application greatly as my wife was on hourly wages just like you then but now she earns monthly salary. However I will sit down with her to see if we can compile this kind of list for her salaries in the past six months. The fact is yes, she had less salary in one of the months as a result of sickness but she did overtime in the subsequent 2 months after the sick month where she earned higher so combining the extras of the overtime, I believe she will definitely exceed £9300. Or what do you think?

Minnienellie24:
I was working as a warehouse operative and paid on an hourly basis with premiums and bonuses. i was working 11 hours for 5 days in a week and sometimes I worked 6 days a week and other times 12 hours a day. All these caused the variation in my wages then. When my husband applied for his visa, we designed a spreadsheet detailing my gross income and net income for each month to make it easier for the ECO to view my income at a glance because i submitted 28 payslips which was equivalent to 6 months if i was on salary. I have attached the screenshot of the spreadsheet to this post and I hope this would be helpful.

@Lexus, there’s something my wife did though. So let me break it down. She had the sick leave which affected her salary in Oct. however she worked overtime at the same work place in November and December hence she earned higher in those two subsequent months, do you think this could augment the overall six months salary in order to meet the requirements. Thanks in anticipation of your response

Lexusgs430:


Assuming you originally intended to apply in March, you wife fell ill in February, creating a shortfall in calculations........

I would submit payslips from April - September + P60......

Employers certainly give their employees the P60.... whether they ask for it or not. It’s the employers obligation

Lexusgs430:


HMRC sends the P60 out......

Okay.... I get you now. Thanks

Lexusgs430:


Assuming you originally intended to apply in March, you wife fell ill in February, creating a shortfall in calculations........

I would submit payslips from April - September + P60......

.....Applying after month 7's payslip is at hand...as in?

Lexusgs430:


Applying after month 7's payslip is at hand......

I’ve asked her... she said she would ask at work and they will definitely give it to her. She also confirmed she will be getting the p60 for the current financial year (I.e. 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2018)

Lexusgs430:


How can she get the P60?

Thanks for your response. But how do they calculate the salaried employment category now. From the application I made in 2016 if I remember properly, I think they just calculate all your earnings with those six months multiply it by 26 weeks (equivalent of six months) and then divide it by 6 or so. Has it changed? I’m not familiar with them using the lowest earning within the six months to calculate. Please educate/update me with the link. Thanks one again.

Whitnified:
it depends on the employment category you pick. if you choose category A salaried employment (where the sponsor has been with the same employer for 6 months at least) and you submit 6 months pay slips and bank statements, then they use the lowest figure within that 6 months to calculate the annual salary. so if your wife earns less than £1550 in any month within the 6 months submitted that is the figure they will use. so I advise you be careful and not think they will consider only the employer letter. make sure no month is below £1550 and if there is and you are sure she earns more than £18,600 a year then consider using Category A un-salaried (where income are variable) and submit 12 months worth of evidence.

Thanks so much for your response.

She actually makes well over 1550 per month... her monthly salary is around £1630.... so from, your 9300/6 months (which I believe was come about by dividing 18600 by 2) is well covered with her 1630 monthly. But you didn’t get what I wrote clearly... she actually was paid a few hundreds of pounds less (not £100 as you thought initially). Not sure about how much exactly (I asked her tonight and she’s going to confirm exactly how much was paid for the particular month tomorrow)

About what her company will write in her letter, I can categorically tell you that I’m sure the company will write her full annual salary (almost 20k) in the letter. Already, in her employment letter/contract handed to her when she wanted to start the job, it was clearly written there her annual salary. So the company option should be fine. So if this is true, there’s nothing to worry about?

Please gurus in the house (Lexusgs430 and Justwise and others) please share your opinions and experiences about the issue raised. Thanks in anticipation and special thanks to Aphrodite007 for the prompt response

She can get it.... she definitely can. What is the solution?

Lexusgs430:


She can't get a P60........


You already know the best solution........

She’s 6 months in this job already... but I’m going to wait till the 7th month before applying.

She can get the P60.... but I’m not sure if it’s going to be the April 2017 one as she started work after the start of the financial year of 2017

Lexusgs430:


How long as she been gainfully with this employer? Does she have her P60 (April 2017)?

Okay. Thanks ma’am. By wages, did you mean you were being paid on an hourly basis? If yes, how much was/is your total annual income as at then? Did it exceed 18600? Finally please explain your own case of “irregular income”.

Sorry for all the questions...

Minnienellie24:
Hi @MreSBee I dont think that should be a problem at all because my hubby applied with an irregular income too and there was a month that seems short. Though i was on wages then. But I would advise you add a supporting note and also include it in the additionalk information the reason for the discrepancy. Goodluck.

Lol.... morning mr Lexus

Let me summarise my question here. My wife meets the £18600 salary requirement (infact she exceeds it). However, a month out of the past six months (past six months payslips we want to submit), she was sick and was on about 10 days unpaid sick leave. Hence that affected her salary (payslip) for that particular month. For example, she normally would have earned about £1634 per month but earned less than that by a few hundreds of pounds. My question is will that affect the application (especially the salary requirements) in anyway?

Please note again, her yearly salary is above 18600. Thanks as I await your response

Lexusgs430:



I don't understand your question.... It's either the cognac in my bloodstreams or it's not clear enough....

I would wager it been the former.......

Aphrodite007:


I think if she makes 1550 per month she shouldn’t worry if she got paid 100 less what she normally collects unless what she made for last month was 1450- that is when there might be trouble.

Alternatively if she is able to make 9300 in 6 months then that should be fine, regardless of what she got paid less of.

Another thing to consider is what her company will agree to write in their letter as her annual salary. If they write they her annual salary is 18600, I am not sure it would matter what she gets paid per month. With what I know the payslips are for confirmation of her payments not just to check how much goes into her account.

The gurus will give a more definite answer.

Thanks so much for your response.

She actually makes well over 1550 per month... her monthly salary is around £1630.... so from, your 9300/6 months (which I believe was come about by dividing 18600 by 2) is well covered with her 1630 monthly. But you didn’t get what I wrote clearly... she actually was paid a few hundreds of pounds less (not £100 as you thought initially). Not sure about how much exactly (I asked her tonight and she’s going to confirm exactly how much was paid for the particular month tomorrow)

About what her company will write in her letter, I can categorically tell you that I’m sure the company will write her full annual salary (almost 20k) in the letter. Already, in her employment letter/contract handed to her when she wanted to start the job, it was clearly written there her annual salary. So the company option should be fine. So if this is true, there’s nothing to worry about?

Please gurus in the house (Lexusgs430 and Justwise and others) please share your opinions and experiences about the issue raised. Thanks in anticipation and special thanks to Aphrodite007 for the prompt response

Hello house, happy new year to you all.... To all that have graduated, best of luck in your new life. To the rest of us waiting for a response or waiting to apply... good luck to us.

It’s the new year, hence I’m getting really close to applying again. So house I have a question as I keep gathering supporting documents. My question is, one month out of the past 6 months we want to use to apply for my application, my wife was sick and spent like 10 days in the hospital... as a result she wasn’t paid for those 10 days so her payslip for that particular month wasn’t the same as the rest of the months. For that particular month, she was short of a few 100 pounds... However, her annual salary still exceeds £18600 required. Please can someone tell me if this payslip can affect my application in any way because I understand that the HO wants to see that your monthly salary when calculated with their figures meets the required 18600. Please gurus in the house, over to you. Thanks

Hey bro. Just seeing this now.

I guess I was wrong about the reason for refusal being the local government wedding certificate. However the reason for refusal here is somehow. The case worker obviously didn't check the documents submitted to back up the savings in your spouses account.... or perhaps maybe the document was missing.

You have two options now... reapply or appeal. Either way, you will have to wait for a while. While you may a high chance of winning the appeal case (if you are able to convince andshow them the evidence of the £25k savings using a good lawyer) but you may spend a whole lot of money and may have to wait for up to a year or even more for the case to be completed. I decided to just reapply because of time and money involved in the appeal process.....

Finally, like I said in my previous post... if the application is becoming unnecessarily taking too long then something is wrong. Imagine when they actually made a decision on your application to when they sent you an email to pick it up. Mine was the same.... after waiting for almost 6 months for the application, it eventually came refused but the date of refusal was actually over a month after they told me to pick my documents up.

Think very well with your madam on the best way moving forward. Once again.... sorry about the refusal.

ronvlaar:
We have considered your application under paragraph EC-P 1.1 of Appendix FM. However, you do not qualify for entry clearance under the 5-year partner route for the following reasons: (one only reason tho)

Eligibility Financial Requirement
You do not meet the eligibility financial requirement of paragraphs E-ECP 3.1 to 3.4

You have stated you intend to meet this requirement through salaried employment with your sponsor having worked for her current employer for less than 6month. I note you have submitted evidence of her previous employer (Bleep). However if you are using employment with a company for less than 6months, you're required to submit 12months wage slips and bank statements, so we can confirm your sponsor total income is sufficient over the last year.

I note you submitted the following evidences:
Employment letter: Provided confirming salary and start date of July'16 for Bleep and also yyy May '17

Wage slips: Provided for both employments Bleep 19/08/2016 - 20/03/2017 and yyy 31/05/17 - 30/07/2017

Bank statements confirming salary submitted for the period Dec '16 - July '17

Therefore I'm unable to be satisfied you have submitted all of the required evidence to meet this rule.

Right of appeal
You have 28days from the date you receive this decision to appeal.


Meanwhile, we stated clearly we're using both salaried employment plus savings to meet the financial requirement and all evidences were submitted but its very obvious the savings part was neglected and ignored. She had over £25k in her savings for well over a year before we applied.
Job Bleep was paying £17,500 and she stopped in May, got job yyy paying £19,800 till August when we applied. Got another job (present one) paying £19,000.
What I don't get is why the case officer totally ignored the savings part.

Decision was made Nov 17, can u imagine that

Sorry to hear this bro. I can understand how you and your wife will be feeling right now.... I've been here before. I've noticed one thing and that is Once the application begins to take unnecessarily too long then there's something fishy. Plus also once they start calling ones spouse back and forth then one should suspect a foul play. I actually went through almost the same thing as you did. However I think the reasons for our refusals differ. Mine was refused for salary/work related reasons (wife didn't make up to 18600 at the time and we had to combine jobs). I strongly think yours was refused because of the local government wedding certificate. Please post the reason(s) for refusal so we all can brainstorm on the way forward. Sorry once again Ronvlaar

ronvlaar:
Good morning house, passport was picked up yesterday and it was refused.
I'll post their reason later with my TL

Since you can get pictures... just make sure you get them in loads (100+) so that can cover for the little or no means of communication between 2014-15. Wish you good luck as you apply... will be reapplying too so wish me luck too

Deola101:


Thanks for your input. About the pictures, we actually have loads of those. Just not so much in terms of communication btw 2014 and 15 coz of change of phones, etc and we weren't big on social media that much then. But we'll be sure to do some more ransacking, hopefully we'd get something. Thanks much!

Wow... wawu... � yours is a miracle I swear. Congratulations

Isommex:
@lexus o tight ju but God perfect it and @mamalicious i was shocked and suprise wen i realised home office returned my document back at 7 weeks without priority service. @mamalicious hubby put date to travel for 23rd December.
Standard Application
Application submitted: 28th sep
Biometric: 4th Oct
Document sent to Sheffield: 9th Oct
Document returned back to me in my uk address: 22nd Nov
Email sent passport ready for collection: 22nd Nov 3:40pm
Passport collected with visa valid from 19th Nov and mind u we put travel date as 23rd Dec.
Na me dey sing oluwa etobi etobi oooo etobi.
Thanks everyone on this forum. Every other people waiting we hear Good news ijn. Wow still shock so so so quick.

Hi Deola

1. I think it's better you explain in the additional information section. If possible to try to rectify the employment error at the court... some people have explained how they had to go back to the registry to rectify errors. Remember you don't want to give the UKVI officials any reason for suspicion

2. Overdraft doesn't matter to them. All the need your hubbys bank statement for is to confirm if he truly receives the salary you have claimed he receives plus to back the payslips up

3. I think it's not good that you don't have any pre wedding or courtship evidences... you really need to find something (pictures, call logs, social media etc) to back up the ones you have from 2016 to present

4. I don't think it matters who does the screenshots. As long as eveidences show that the conversations/communications transpired between both of you

5. I don't think it's really necessary printing your bank statements as long as your sponsors bank statements are correct and shows that he receives the said salary to maintain both of you.

Hope I'm able to help with these few information. Gurus in the house should correct me anywhere if I'm wrong

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Your first NI is yours forever.... even if you go back to the UK after a century... you can still use it lol

Aphrodite007:


Sharp woman!! I didn’t know you can use the former NI number given to you. I won’t be going back as a student, do I apply for a new NI or use my old NI no? Don’t worry everything will work out. With that salary, the family will move with you in no time. Congrats on your scholarship. Make us proud o.

Congratulations man... Good luck as you experience a new beginning with your spouse. Good luck to all of us about to apply and the Ines waiting for a response like yours.

Irhu32:
To God be the glory.My wife got entry clearance via today granted last week on the 13th. Thanks everyone for yr support and I hope you hear from them soon.Keep fingers crossed and try and distract yourself with any possible cos I tell you he no easy.
Online application 24Aug
Biometrics reg 28thAug
No email,no not straightforward application,no call to me or my employer or solicitor.
Decision made email 17th Nov
Dhl delivery of parcel 20th.
Good luck with everyone and if you need any info do give a text.

Congratulations Dolly.... I thank God for you. he did it for you despite the "not straightforward email" you got twice. Congratulations again. God bless you and your husband as you begun yo coexisyyand cohabit together (lol)

Dolly15:
Hi guys,

I just want to say a very big thank you to everyone that shared their thoughts regarding my previous post and also your prayers and encouragement.

God has done it and I’m grateful, as I received my visa today after 5months of waiting.

Timeline:

Application online submission- may 30th
Biometrics - June 6th
Documents sent to Sheffield - June 12th
Email confirming application received in Sheffield -
June 27th
Application not straightforward email received - Aug 24th
Escalation to MP by husband-September 13th
Email from Sheffield apologizing for delay as it’s been a busy period and aim to make a decision on or before October 31st - sep 25
Not straightforward email - Oct 16
Email received stating still working on application - Oct.30th

Documents returned to husband - Nov 8
Decision made and visa ready for collection mail received 2hrs apart - Nov 9.

Wishing all those still waiting for theirs goodnews soon.

Lamakinde:

Thanks, well I asked if I can add my acct then on the forum but someone said it doesn't add up so I went ahead to download the FM appendix August 2017 and discover that I can actually use my acct. So we checked my wife's P60 and noticed her last one summed to 18,420 thereabouts, meanwhile if u are adding funds it must be in an acct with names of either one or joint names of the couple. It must show proof of how you got it and must be in the acct for like six months as at when applying. So I used two of my accounts that summed £15900 pounds which is not up to the stipulated £16000 they required. Then we went ahead to explain difficulty of moving our son who's 8yrs old to Nigeria stating it will be too much for him. Reading the attached letter, they said I meet the financial requirement according to FM appendix 3.2.

Wow.. I see... But I still think you were divinely favoured with this application. I guess God just said your time is now. Congratulations... We are coming behind you.

Have a safe trip... Please always do check in here from time to time to drop your 2 cents and little piece of advise from your experience thus far. Bless you

Lamakinde:

Alleluia, he has done it oooo oooo oooo. Visa given. Vignette is 9th Nov to 9th Dec. My case is really different. Wifey did not meet up with financial requirements and I didn't really know despite knowing that she had to cut down her hours so as to have more time for our son.
So I just packaged my accts to send totalling £15900 as added funds from me.
God is faithful, sending my timeline soon.

Wow.... Congratulations mate..... Your case is absolutely really different lol. God really did it for you.... Once financial requirement is not met, even if all the other requirements are over met lol... Chances of getting the visa are slim. But God did it for you. Halleluyah.

How did you package your own account to come across the said amount that you added to your wife's. Please be honest others like me may consider your method. One again congratulations and make sure you go with your parkas, winter jackets and trench coats lol... I hear the weather has turned back to freezer lol.

Regards to your wife... She must be very very happy right now

tayeby78:
To God be all the glory .........Great things he hath done. Don't know if anyone remembers my story but I'll start from the beginning.

Timeline

Spousal application August 6 2016
Biometrics 12th August 2016
23rd Oct - application not straight forward email from ukvi.
January 17th 2017 - visa refused - based on financial requirements cos we submitted details for self employed and full time employment, English language and not enough evidence of our relationship

Feb 3rd - appealled asper lawyers advise

March - found this forum and was taking screenshots of everything............

April - notice of pending appeal

June - emailed Manchester MP who happens to be a labour candidate and they are in full support of immigrants - got the advise from this forum


July - got letter appeal listed for December 8th 2017 - Same day the MP replied me. Lol

August 9th - reapplied since the appeal was taking too long.

August - MP wrote me to find out the progress but I told her about the new application and that I wasn't coping, i was depressed and have to move in with my mother and appeal is taking too long.

17th August - Biometrics

Oct - tls hasn't updated that his application has been received by ukvi - I asked on this forum and Lamakinde advised to fill in their complaint section.

Within 2 working days the necessary adjustments was made on the tls tracker.

25th Oct - emailed mp to say I haven't heard anything from the second application.

Nov 6th - decision made email and passport ready for collection about 20 mins apart.

Hubby who has been carrying his collection letter in his car since last week just drove straight to Ikeja to go pick it up and low and behold his visa was there.

Just need to withdraw the appeal lo ba tan and of cos update the MP. Lol

Please everyone don't ever give up. Good luck to everyone waiting.......we shall all celebrate together here in this UK....my prayers are with you always.

Congratulations on the success of your application. Was reading earlier about your initial application last year and was just going to make a comment on how your application was so similar to mine last year and funny thing is it was around same time last year.... Anyway all is history now... God has given you victory

May God give every one else still waiting this kind of good news and to us that are going to reapply soon.... good luck to everyone. Good morning

Dolly15:
Hi everyone,
Just found out about this forum and wish I did earlier.Please I need everyone’s help here as I’m genuinely freaking out as this has taken way too long.

So I applied for a UK spousal visa on May 30th 2017 and I’m yet to get a response till date.
Wedding registry in feb 2017 (ikoyi registry)
Engagement and wedding in July 2017

So here’s my timeline soo far:

Application online submission- may 30th
Biometrics - June 6th
Documents sent to Sheffield - June 12th
Email confirming application received in Sheffield -
June 27th
Application not straightforward email received - Aug 24th
Escalation to MP by husband-September 13th
Email from Sheffield apologizing for delay as it’s been a busy period and aim to make a decision on or before October 31st - sep 25
Not straightforward email - Oct 16
Email received stating still working on application - Oct.30th

Should I be worried??
Also they haven’t asked for any extra documents,so we are just waiting daily for goodnews.

Please any suggestions or advice will be appreciated.
Thank you.

Hi Dolly

My application last year looks similar to yours.... Eventually, I was denied. I got the "not straightforward email" once though.I'm worried that they have sent it to you twice already.

After I got the first "not straightforward email... They called my wife and the employer for the second job we used for the application in order to meet up with the 18600 threshold. It was after a couple of calls going back and forth that we started suspecting foul play. Long story short, about two months after the interview (the calls) I received their email that the passport is ready for collection. In all my application took almost 6 months.... Although, I realised they had made a decision on my application almost a month before sending the collection email

Dolly, I'm sorry to tell you but you should be worried. Once you start getting emails like "application not straightforward".... Is there anything you think is not right about your application (most especially in meeting the 18600 requirement)?

I suggest you contact them or ask your husband to contact them again to ask for the status of the application. I must say that involving the local MP is a step in the right direction... It should help. I was advised at a point to contact the MP too. I wish you and you husband good luck. Its not easy o. Keep praying....

justwise:


People use priority despite that.

Justwise... Really?

I just want a fast application this time. I think I'm just going to use priority regardless. In the picture posted by Deebaby05, it did not really say one "must not" use priority if one has been initially refused.... it only says "they recommend not to use"

deebaby05:
It's true, you can't use priority if previously refused. It's on tlscontact.com.

Its rather sad *crying face*..... Really don't want to go through that traumatic period of waiting for so long again but I guess there isn't much choice now. Thanks @deebaby05 for enlightening me and for the pictorial evidence

tayeby78:
Hi,

As long as she's been in the job for 6 months and has pay slips and bank statements to reflect these i don't think it matters if it's probabationary period or not.

2. You won't be allowed to use priority service if you've been refused a visa in that category before. I tried using priority for my husbands application after first refusal but it just wouldn't go through. Check out the exclusion criterias for the priority service to know more.

Day 55 today after biometrics :-(

Wow.... Are you serious about this (bolded).... Perhaps the person who told me was referring to an initial refusal using standard method. I just hope this is not true cos I can't wait that long again.... My application last year took about 5 months. Can't wait that long again.

Thanks @Justwise...
Point one noted...... I actually haven't seen anywhere online or on gov.uk where they mentioned anything about probational period affects the 6 months count on the job.... I just put it out here just in case I omitted or skipped it.

Point two.... You just confirmed what I know and believe is right.. Also I haven't come across anywhere where it mentions that you can't use priority service if you use standard service for initial applications made.

Please anyone who knows or has seen otherwise should please let me know. Thanks

justwise:


1. You can start the application a month or two after the probational period(though there is no rule that i know of that prevents one from applying during that period).

2. I don't think that is true, using standard application previously does not stop one from using priority service, maybe the person who told you that can point to a specific link to support that info