Firstly what HO tries to establish is whether the self-employed business is genuine. I've seen posts where people were asked - what is your turnover, P&L account, balance sheets, give me the list of your five top clients, can we ask for references from them, why your turnover was 50K last year but you have only 2k in your account, where is your office, why are you based in a specific location, why there are fluctuation in your turnover on a year-to-year basis, some people were asked why three years ago you have not been self-employed, but you became self employed in the last couple of years, how can you cope being employed as a staff and plus being self-employed simultaneously, this is extremely difficult... You get the taste.
Secondly a number of people had some problems filing the tax returns / SA for up to five years backwards. Wrong figures, late filing, inconsistencies in the tax form with the ILR application. In one case I've seen that HO cannot contact HMRC, instead asking the applicant to source information from HMRC and feed back to HO. Once I've seen somebody complained that they amended their tax forms, but it took HMRC several weeks to update their database and HO did not see that...
Some people's applications I've seen been refused. But people do not give up, they go through the appeal process. Some go to the judicial review. Well I do believe in this great country the judicial process is fair, much better than in my previous country...
ILR2015-2016 wrote:Hi,winnter_summer wrote:Just wondering any body in here has been to the interview? what sort of questions they ask? Has anybody unsuccessful after the interview. why only few people been asked to go to an interview. Have they asked any tax questions?I am very tense these days. Thanks in advance.
There are many applicants called for interview now a days. You can search for postal interview threads in the forum. There are couple of them who has shared their experience and the questions. Questions will be based on your previous applications and current applications self employment claimed and questions related to any tax amendments done. Do you have any tax amendments issue?
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