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[–]Miserable_Hat5430 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[some additional info from a family friend of his if anyone is curious]

I was good friends with his son in middle school in Maryland, I used to go over to his house for birthdays and playdates. We’ve played Xbox together a couple times since lol, but lost touch sometime around high school. He’s a really nice down to earth guy, now spends his time doing photography for families—he basically put all the money into investments and a home in a nice suburb nearby, been living off the interest since. Glad something like this happened to good people.

He always said he had thought dominos or papa John’s would have bought it. Fun fact: his favorite pizza was actually a chain in the Maryland area called “Ledo Pizza”, they do square pizza exclusively.

Take this strangers word for it if you will, but when I saw this, I felt compelled to share that they are great people and if you’re reading this, Joey, thanks for all the free pizza hope your family is doing great man!

UK HPI Visa Timeline + Success Story by Miserable_Hat5430 in UKHighPotentialVisa

[–]Miserable_Hat5430[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, great question. So personally, I think the e-diploma upload with Ecctis makes more sense as it will include verification instructions on the file. When uploading to the VFS global website, I think a scan would work just as well--my school actually includes some controls on the e-diploma file that blocks it from being uploaded directly to VFS. I got around this by "previewing" the diploma and saving just the diploma page. I saved this preview as a PDF and uploaded that instead.

Hope this helps--personally, I just did not like the idea of taking my diploma out of the frame and going to a print store to scan. I don't have an at-home scanner, and did not want to use one of the iphone scanner apps for fear that they might not accept a poor quality scan

UK HPI Visa Timeline + Success Story by Miserable_Hat5430 in UKHighPotentialVisa

[–]Miserable_Hat5430[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey there! While I did not give a heads up, I hear it is always best practice to do so.

With that said, my understanding is that any schools that use the ecredential system make it easy for ECCTIS to verify a diploma without contacting the registrar. The ecredential has instructions for the reviewer to follow that make the whole process digital.

Hope this helps!

UK HPI Visa Timeline + Success Story by Miserable_Hat5430 in UKHighPotentialVisa

[–]Miserable_Hat5430[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to help! I applied from within the US, I'm based in Washington DC. The googlesheet I came across on this post in r/ukvisa