Dear All,
First of all, I am very thankful to all the members of immigration board specially the moderators Sushdmetha, John, Vinny and Casa.
I have booked an appointment for 15 August 2012 for PEO Solihull. This was booked exact 42 days before the appointment date. The time of appointment was 10 AM.
My case was 2 Year HSMP and 3 Years Tier 1 General. I came to UK, 47 days after my Entry Clearance date.
I have prepared the following documents to take with me for the appointment.
1. Cover Letter
2. Application form SET (O)
3. 2 photographs of me and each dependants
4. Accountants Letter showing my complete income, with details of me salary each month and my Limited company profit.
5. Invoice Summay
6. Limited company accounts with details of my earnings, expenses and profits. I am simply drawing the money from my business account to my personal account and NOT by dividends and monthly salary.
7. Pay Slips from my First Employer
8. Payslips from my Second Employer
9. Personal Bank Statements
10. Invoices with copies of cheques and deposit slips
11. Business Bank Statements
12. Contracts of business
13. NI Contribution receipts
14. P60 and Employment History
15. LIUK Certificate for me and my wife
16. Passports
17. Approval Letters
18. Certification of Incorporation of Limited Company
19. Reports I made for my personal business
20. Cohabit documents (TV Licence, NHS Letter, Mortgage Letter, Water Bill, City Council Bill)
21. Photocopies of every thing
On the day of appointment I reached PEO Solihull at 0800 in the morning and parked my car in the Touchwood Shopping centre. Took my children to the shopping centre for them to get freshen. After that come back and waited in the car.
At 0905 Hrs, started our walk to PEO. Reached there at 0909 HRS after security check issued the ticket number 208. I was the first one for the settlement application and although my appointment is at 10 AM, I have been called by the case worker at 0920 Hrs.
I reached the counter 5 where my case worker lady was waiting for me (this is next to the payment booth of PEO). We greeted each other and she straight away means business. She is very professional and asked for my Application form, photos, passports and LIUK certificate. She checked the Application form version, my entry to UK date and then checked the LIUK certificate. I have asked her, How much we scored? She said you scored 22 and your wife scored 18. Then she opened the previous earnings page of the application form and said to me, “Let’s take it to the next level”
She asked for my pay slips. I handed over her my payslips. She pulled out her calculator from her drawers and start counting the gross pay from my payslips. Then she took the payslips from my second employment and added the gross pay from there as well. Then she asked for my personal bank statement and checked the net pay of each pay slips.
Then she asked for all the invoices and added all the income. Then she asked for the business bank statement and start verifying the income using invoices. REMEMBER FOR THE WHOLE TIME, SHE IS IGNORING THE ACCOUNTANTS LETTER. After checking the invoices amount with bank statement, she started checking the amount transfer from my Business account to Personal account. At this point she asked my MOST unexpected question. Where is you all income going from business activity. I told her that I have mortgaged my house in March and I have collected all the money and handed over to bank. I have sorted loans from my friends and now I am returning them loan every month. This satisfied her and she asked for all the cohabitation documents.
She selected TV Licence, Mortgage letter, Bank Statement for me and my wife, Water bill. She asked for copies of all the documents.
Then she said that she is going to check my Criminality Record. She took my passport and my wife’s passport to the room behind her. She come back after 5 minutes, returned all the passports and said the golden words. I AM GRANTING YOU ILR AND YOUR BRP WILL ARRIVE BY POST. Please make payment now.
I made the payment, went out and met my family in waiting area. We have been called for our Biometrics and then we have been told to come back after 2 hours.
I went back after two hours and collected my original documents and approval letters.
It was a great experience…No P60 or employment history was asked for.
If anyone needs any information, then can send me a PM or Email me.
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