VC firm will only need to provide letter of commitment to invest £50K in your business. They don't need to put the money in your account immediately. Pls pm me your email address and I will be happy to give you details of the VC that I am using - they are quite open to accepting business proposals a...

I went to the interview and got my visa in April too, but as far as I think its the person who interview you decide your future. I am telling you that because the person who interviewed me told he normally give an opinion on the applicant, so its a yes or no situation, if he say yes u will get visa...

I can't reply to your pm due to some technical error here. Pls pm me your email address and I will reply.

thanks

Not really.. I just wanted admin's attention as my messages are stuck in my outbox and are not being sent. Pls fix this problem asap.
Just to confirm - I am NOT looking for any funding partner! thanks

As per the UKBA guidance document a Tier2 person can switch into Tier1 Entrepreneur either with GBP200K of own money of GBP50K from a venture capital firm. Guidance document is on the UKBA website. If you send me our email I can send the doc to you as well as this forum did not allow me to upload th...

Copy from Immigration rules Appendix A Table 6 (indefinite leave to remain) "The applicant has spent the specified continuous period lawfully in the UK, with absences from the UK of no more than 180 days in any 12 calendar months during that period. The specified period must have been spent wit...

Hi Antonio 22, I have an in-person appointment for PSW on 22nd December and I am facing exactly the same problem with dropping of funds for 2 weeks that you mentioned in your post. You mentioned in your post that the “Bank is not able to give a statement untill 8 Sept 2011”. May I ask which bank do...

mkb wrote:

entrepreneur123 wrote:even if a student show 200k, he cannot apply within uk

Ok fine, but can a student apply for entrepreneur visa after completing studies..?

And what is FSC approved venture capital firms...?

PM me for details. I can help you with the VC route.

Any update? Did you get the visa?

If you show your own funding in your account or from a third party you need to show £200K - only if you show funds from VC or seed comp or govt dept you can show £50K only..
think again..

If you are left with less than £200K, the only way to get the Tier1 would be through a VC I guess..
If you go down that route, make sure you check them properly..

I applied for Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa on 12 December 2012 following third party £200,000 route from Tier 2. My application was refused on 12 November 2013, reason being case worker so competent, he/she didn't bothered to go through my application along with documents and concluded that I have £5...

Please send me the letter you attached from Prfectus and the business plan. I work in financial services so will be happy to have a look to see if there is any good basis to argue against the decision.

thanks for replying entrepreneur123 do you have any idea what academic documents are required ? it would be really helpful to me .. i will also be posting all the documents details here before submitting my application. thanks If you send me the name of the VC I can verify if it meets the UKBA defi...

As I mentioned in my previous posts, I have been looking for a genuine VC to support the visa application of my brother and as I work in financial services in the City I managed to find one. I have checked their details on the FCA register and they do meet the definition of a "Venture Capital F...

Did you try Venture Capital funding route?

Before talking to any Venture Capital Firm or consultant - please make sure you check that you know what a venture capital firm is and what it is allowed to do. I don't blame people for not really knowing what a Venture Capital firm is, as this is not a well known concept for people who are not in t...

Before talking to any Venture Capital Firm or consultant - please make sure you check that you know what a venture capital firm is and what it is allowed to do. I don't blame people for not really knowing what a Venture Capital firm is, as this is not a well known concept for people who are not in t...

Could you please help me finding the venture capitals . I'm in tier 4 and wish to apply entrepreneur tier 1 through investor. I want to set up a successful fusion restaurant. Great idea has already worked in a place called Spalding in Lincolnshire. If there are any investors I can also provide the ...

read the policy guidance, you will get all the answers to your questions Dear Friends, I a here on student visa and my visa is expiring in August first week. I am applying for entrepreneurship visa and getting funds from venture capital. Can anyone help me to tell what sort of document i need besid...

Hi Guys, I have applied on 10th Jan 2013 via 50K Venture capital funding, gave my bio metric on 31st Jan 2013. Anyone who applied through Venture capital funding, can anyone please let me know how will these new rule force from 31st Jan 2013 are going to impact who took this root. I just want to be...

Hi experts and all people with knowledge. can you all please throw light on how one can manage to convince a venture capital firm for investment of £ 50,000 ? How good is it in terms of getting visa as compared to cash £ 50,000 in our account ? What else document do we need from VC ? How to find a ...

Hi we are students and applying for tier 1 via VC firm. i am confused that do we have access to 50k each or 25k each from the VC firm? Do we have to submit the business plan with our application or only submit it to the venture Capital firm? Do we have to do any trading before applying for visa? Ca...

thanx for your suggestion blackbirdsSSG .. We have our plan ready which is related to travel and tourism & recruitment firm which is our family business. I have got so much of information from this forum and that is why i always ask questions from people who know about it. but i am still scared...

Its student tier4 to entrepreneur tier1 route I gave my business proposal to Profectus venture capital. They accepted my proposal and they are funding for my business so I applied tier 1 visa. once I get the visa they released fund to my bank then i will start the business. Business name : flextran...