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by SYH » Fri May 18, 2007 12:15 pm
In my opinion, you are getting different answers because you do not give each person the whole story and also refer to different things in each question you have asked. For instance in two separate threads you talk about the approval letter or date approved, the endorsement stamp, your actual start date. They are all different things so I wouldn't blame HO at making it complicated, you are making it complicated for yourself. And it would be better to stick to one thread.
(That is a hint to stick to this thread, the other thread is played out)
With the available information, in my opinion, your approval letter date is not the start date of your quallifying 5 year period. Your first day of work probably is the relevant date because you were already in the UK for a different purpose and once you began work in that new capacity, then that in of itself became its endorsement. If you were coming in for the first time, maybe the date of your WP sticker would be probative. For me, I don't even think that date is the right date either but more so the date the Immigration Officer would have stamped on the endorsement sticker upon entry into the country. As indicated from maibesa's post.
Again as you were already in the country that did not happen or at least you haven't informed us as such that this new sticker was stamped by an Immigration Officer.
This analysis is off the cuff and I could be completely wrong on how to calculate the start date but if you want to help yourself, you need to be really clear about your circumstances and the explain all the details behind it and not interchange terms for one another. As far as I can tell every answer given to you was the right answer based on the background you gave and how the question was phrased
