Would be nice if anyone out there could provide facts about their own experiences under the new system. We are just speculating about how these rules will get interpreted in practice. MPH80 / asim72: On reflection I agree an appeal on submitting less than one year's accounts would probably not succe...
Yes but I would dispute that the rules are clearly laid out. For example, if you are taking salary from your private limited company, in what way are you allowed to include this in your income? It might be the case that the paragraphs relating to being an employee apply. Nowhere in the paragraphs re...
Hi olawest. I'm in exactly the same situation as you. I'm waiting until the end of my company's financial year, so that I can supply a full year's accounts like the rules say. It's painful to have to delay everything by months for some technicality, but I think this is the best route under the curre...
What worries me is that the two concepts of private limited company income and personal income (from salary, interest from bank accounts, etc) don't necessary neatly fit together in terms of timespan. The rules say that company income must be from the last full year of company accounts, which could ...
Hendrix, That paragraph you quote applies to partnerships. Roughly speaking, there are 4 main types of private businesses in the UK: sole trader, partnership, private limited company and public limited company. I think your business is/will be a private limited company. So you need to be looking at ...
Hmm. Now I'm confused for another reason. Reading paragraph 19(c), it seems to suggest that the *only* income that can be counted is income drawn from the post-tax profits of the company (e.g. dividends). I award myself both salary and dividends, as I'm sure do 99% of private limited company owners....
Thanks Kitty, I had not seen the webpages you mention, only the IDIs, which appear to be contradictory in some details with the actual Immigration Rules. I wonder where this leaves the poor applicants. ECOs may feel at will to give the strongest possible interpretation from combining both. Anyway......
Hi hendrix, According to Annex FM section-FM-1.7, the ballpark figure for the amount of savings that will substitute for income is: (savings - 16,000) / 2.5 > annual income requirement And you will need to hold these in cash for at least the last 6 months. It's 16,000 because, roughly speaking, that...
Hi myegin11, I am in the same situation as you, and am equally confused about whether dividends qualify and about whether company accounts need to be audited. (I get the impression that these guidelines have been rushed through...)
I am self-employed as company director of my own private limited company. I want to sponsor the settlement visa for my Vietnamese wife and stepson. So, under the new rules as of July 2012, I understand that I need to show annual income of at least 22,400 GBP. My British daughter will also be living ...
I am a UK national currently living in the UK, with a temporary, well-paid contract job. I have a Vietnamese wife (married 15 months ago). She has a son from a previous marriage, and is currently pregnant with our child. She was previously living in the UK under a 6-month visitor visa, and returned ...
Hi Pennyless. Here's the reasoning behind our decision: We didn't see why a family visitor visa was particularly unsuitable for our case. When applying for the most recent application I had a 6-month employment contract, and may be working in another country when this expires. To us (not experts on ...
Anniecc, you missed my point. If an application is "judged on its own merits" then by definition this means not taking into consideration anything to do with other applications, past or future. The UKBA, it appears, don't do this. Anyway, for those that are interested, what happened in the...
Anniecc, surely a subsequent visa application should be judged on it merits at the point in time at which the application is made, whenever that may be. If so, why should having an intention to make a future application make any difference to a current application? That future application, if inappr...
It may be unfair to expect visitors to know the complex Immigration rules when some Entry Clearance Officers do not . That is shocking about the culture at the UKBA. Very interesting reading, and it explains the dismissive writing style in our refusal letter. It sounds like we got a "refusal k...
Sorry, I need to be absolutely clear about where we stand, to focus our appeal on the right aspects. According to the following, we are entitled to free state school education if the local education authority is willing to provide it, even if we just have a visitor visa: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.g...
Ah yes, thanks. So schooling itself is not an issue. It sounds like they are questioning the *intention* in applying for a visa - whether the intention is to be with me or to receive NHS care and state education. I have a short term job in the UK, and after that I'm not sure what I'll be doing. Sure...
It puzzles me why the doctors' surgery and school were not aware of this. We asked them whilst here whether my wife/stepson were entitled to NHS care and state schooling, emphasised we only had a visitor visa, showed them the passports, and the answers came back "yes". In fact, according t...
I am a UK national. I met my wife 3 years ago in Vietnam, where I was living until last year. We married 1 year ago, and she came over with her son (from another marriage) to live with me in the UK on a 6-month family visitor visa. Whilst here we sought advice from the NHS (local walk-in clinic and ...
