I suggest you do the following: Make sure you have £800.00 from the start of March. That gives you March, April and up to the 16th of May when you apply. When you apply sent your bank statements but in your cover letter indicate that you you will send additional bank evidence. In another 2 weeks se...
I found this story in the Independent online. Focus on the last sentence. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/immigrants-face-stronger-british-citizenship-process-784566.html Immigrants face stronger British citizenship process By David Barrett, PA Wednesday, 20 February 2008 Foreigners li...
She needs a salary of £32,000 per anum to get the additional 5 points for extension. So she is short by £1500.00. Which is not a lot relatively. I suggest she gets a part time job to make up the difference. The job does not have to be skilled and it is a small sarifice for ten months or so in ligh...
Bear in mind that Tier 1 of the Points Based Sysem will be introduced by March 2008. Along with Tier 1 will be a new set of guidelines. It is possible that the periods when you can submit your extension application may change. Or they may not. So keep a look out for the new extension guidelines for ...
HO accepts more than 12 pay slips from a 12 month period. As long as the payslips are issued in the correct month. I had bonus payments issues on a separate payslip (for work done the previous year) and this was accepted. It is only logical - for example if you work for two companies (two jobs)then ...
Hello all, I searched the board and found a lot of questions about the 12-month continuous earnings period, but did not find a similar question to this. My initial HSMP leave period expires end of Feb 2008. I wish to apply for extension using a 12-month earnings period from November 1st 2006 to Octo...
LondonBlonde,
So what was his attitude like. What was his justification for the rule changes, etc ?. That discussion would have been good to hear. I'm sorry I missed it.
Note however that the transitional guidelines state that you are eligible only if your previous grant of leave under HSMP was made prior to November 8th 2006. I think logically it will be around until Nov 7th 2008. For applicants after that period goodness knows what will be in store for them.
Or it could be the following: announcing the end of HSMP, or announcing the removal of unfair retroactive changes, or announcing that ILR will now be 6 years, or announcing that you now need 85 points for extension, or announcing an increase in cost for all applications, or announcing that the age d...
This is the best news I've heard since the start of December. The stories described in the article are really sad. The Times did a good job. I hope those who caused all this hardship to migrants and embarassment to the UK Government will not be so stubborn so as not to admit their error and reverse ...
I always wonder about the fields of employment persons undertake verses their defined skills and what is acceptable. Look at the following senarios: If an MBA grad opens a corner store - that does not sound very highly skilled - however if he opens a corner store outlet chain then thats a different ...
"Further, if his company was not taking in enough for the 75 points, he would then need to show three app routes 1) employee only, 2) self employed against point system and failing, 3) transitional arrangement for those in category 2." Remember folks you can use full time and part time emp...
The rumour mill is making me really paranoid. Its not good to live like this. You don't know if a couple months from now you will have to pack your bags and leave in 28 days. After making a committment to the UK Government. The bad thing is that even with all the uncertainty surrounding HSMP many pe...
The way I see it, they are now members of the EU so to be fair to them a visa should not be required for them to enter the UK. The work restrictions have not been lifted so nationals from Romania and Bulgaria can visit the UK without a visa (like many Commonwealth Nationals) but they cannot work or ...
AT I have given a lot of thought on the self employment options the HO has outlined. There are numerous loopholes and it is not well thought through. The bad part is we would not know their line of thought until people submit applications and they share their results. The evidence options do not tak...
Hi LondonBlonde I agree with you. Your business should be bonafied. This would be reflected on your business and personal bank account statements. Your business certainly cannot be making $10.00 and you pay yourself $1000.00. However I worry for people who cannot show six months of future contracts ...
One other point: people who are involved in self employed service businesses could pay themselves all the earnings as taxable income but do not keep any of earnings as profit. For example: if you build websites for $100.00. You can take the money as self employed earnings (pay) and do not put anythi...
alientrader, You are correct. Income you make from business is taxable and will be considered income. The HO alows for selfemployed people. It is common also that businnesses do not make a profit in their first year / years. However as per extension rules you have to provide: personal income tax ret...
"what if you pay yourself a huge amount (as an employee of your own company) in order to show earnings and your company is not making any profit as happens in case of most of the businesses in the gestation period. Will that situation be acceptable to HO? " Thats a question I wonder about ...
For limited companies - the company as well as the employee has to pay taxes, Therefore if you own the limited company and pay yourself then you have to pay insurance and personal taxes on the employee's salary,then pay company taxes on the salary as well. Double taxation. Income tax is payable if y...
Hello I'm planning to open a self employment sole trader business to get additional income for extension. According to the old HSMP caseworker guidelines for self employed people your income is what you put into your bank account from your business bank account. Not the overall profits of the compan...
Rella, You guys seem to have an excellent case for the transitional business arrangement (except probably the 6 months of future business contracts). If you guys do not make it I do not know who will. * The business exception in the new rules seems to apply more to service-type/consulting/contractin...
I'm not clear on the extension requirement for previous earnings. This question is based on if I never studied or worked in the UK before getting HSMP. If after HSMP approval, EC clearance then working in the UK for the first time (under HSMP and for the appropriate salary) can I for extension purpo...
