Pete Beale

Got an appointment to see my Accountant tomorrow and hopefully can get all the missing documentation. When I appeal do I just have to suppy the missing documents or all the documents including the ones already accepted in the settlement application ?

Can I ask, did you submit the application as a sole trader or as a director of your own company ? I ask because the ECO has refused the application on the grounds that you have not supplied the required documents for a sole trader, yet he has stated that you have submitted accounts for the year 23/9/13 - 30/9/14 ( and he has stated that these meet the requirements). If you are a sole trader, then your tax year is the normal financial tax year ( April - March). The fact that you have supplied ( and the ECO has accepted) accounts for what looks like a company tax year, it seems like you might be applying as a director of your own company ? If that is so, then I don't see why the ECO is treating you as a sole trader ? Conversely, if he is treating you as sole trader, then why has he accepted accounts for a non-financial tax year ?

Tony M

I applied as a sole trader. I started my current self-employment in September 2013 and my tax year since then ends 30th September. I read in the application notes that for purposes of visa application the tax year is April - March, so my Accountant got me a SA302 which says how much I earned in the standard April - March tax year. Not sure how they come to the figure, maybe an average from what I earned October - September. I also submitted a statement of earnings from my Accountant for my tax year September 2013 - 2014, but as I was under the impression they are interested in April - March I didn't include my bank statements previous to April 2014 and seems they want to see these from the notes on section (f) of the refusal letter.

They also say in section (f) "Whilst the statements show your sponsor receiving deposits, there are no supporting documents to demonstrate this is your sponsors income" I'm not really sure what supporting documents I could provide, I'm a black cab driver and all my fares are cash, I receive it and bank it at the end of the week.

Are all your national insurance contributions up to date. ?if not don't bother or pay any back amounts owed.

Yes they are, they've been set up to be paid by direct debit. The payments would be on my bank statements that were submitted, not sure what other evidence I could provide.

What does your accountant know about settlement visas? There's a big list of reasons to refuse and it's all down to the dearth of documentation that you've failed to provide.

Forget about your accountant. Provide the evidence required and your wife could well get a result with a review.

If you really don't know what you're doing then employ the services of an OISC registered immigration advisor. You did state money isn't a problem at present.

My Accountant probably knows nothing about settlement visas, but I'd imagine he does know about tax returns and NI contributions and what documentation I could use as evidence that all is up to date, some of which would probably need to come from him.

Hopefully my Accountant will be able to tell me what documentation will cover what they want and provide them or tell me how to get them if I've not already got it.

My Wife has had her settlement visa refused, I want to appeal it but not too sure how I go about it. I am in the UK and am hoping I can do the appeal from here as the refusal is all to do with my self employment documentation which I can hopefully provide in the appeal. From what I've read it seems you can appeal by post for £80 or by personal hearing for £140, would I be better to have a personal hearing ? don't care much about the price difference at this point.

I'll have a look through the appeal notes but any practical information as to how I go about an appeal will be gratefully accepted. I've attached the relevant pages of the refusal letter stating where criteria was not met and what documents are needed.

Was actually mildly pleasantly surprised by the visa fee, was under the impression that was £1000 so expected it to be over £1200 by time it had been converted to US dollars and back again. Came in at 1530 which is £974 or thereabouts.

My Wife just completed her application for settlement visa, I was under the impression I'd have to pay £500 for her IHS surcharge, £200 a year x 2 1/2 years, but I had to pay US 960 which is about £611. If this is how they convert pounds into dollars it's a shocking rip off rate, or am I missing something ?

My Thai Wife was due to fly back to Thailand tonight on EVA Air but the flight has been delayed due to a typhoon in Taiwan apparently. This means she will be overstaying her 6 month tourist visa by 1 day, when I asked the lady at EVA Heathrow she said it's ok as there's no immigration on leaving Heathrow. Can this cause a problem when applying for settlement ? will they have any way of knowing she overstayed ? if they do will it be seen as an unavoidable overstay and be ok ?

I'm hoping to apply for UK settlement with my Wife next month, I'm self employed as a Cabby and have documents from HM Revenue & Customs and my Accountant to say I earned above the £18'600 limit. But I'm sure I read somewhere that if you deal in cash which I do then you need to show that cash going into a bank account, I've only been putting into the bank what I have left over after paying all my living expenses, this will be considerably less than the £18'600 for the last year. Will I be wasting my time and money applying for settlement at this time, would I have to put all my cash earnings into my bank account and apply next year ? If I wrote an explanation in the letter detailing our relationship why I don't have £18'600 going through my bank account, maybe a list of expenses I pay before putting the remainder of my earnings into my bank would that be likely to be accepted or is it black and white in this matter ? I feel we've got a fairly strong case in other respects, she's had 2 previous UK tourists visas and has a good professional employment record.

Am I the only one who finds selfies repulsive? Just five or ten years ago that behavior was referred to as narcissistic. Now it is acceptable. Feels like a rather lamentable aspect of popular culture.

Go tell the elephant then.

Is mass rape of the local women and girls on the agenda for these bikers if they're paying homage to the Red Army's road to Berlin.

Well, it happens almost every day in Pattaya, unfortunately!

Pattaya is not the place where I would like to live.

People dying ? happens all over the world in case you didn't know!

Probably saying to the police in the photo "I must break you"

All the water being thrown around will hopefully wash away the spit and snot from the Chinese.

Why would somebody accuse a totally innocent person of committing the murder as Knox did with a local bar owner ? She's guilty of something whether that be just trying to get the real murderer off and deserves all the grief she's gone through.

It's been about 15 years since my Wife qualified as a Nurse but she says she paid nowhere near that amount. About 500 baht for the certificate and thinks nothing for the registration. 30k and 100k sounds very fishy to her and me unless things have changed drastically.

Why are Maori's often referred to as mongrels then? even in the media- oh I think a mongrel did it, heard that myself on the radio when some campers got attacked camping on Maori land

If they attack people then they fully deserve to be called mongrels.

If Chinese could behave like civilized people, there would be no need to complain.

Nobody with common sense washes their feet and footwear in wash basins, only them.

Another specialty from the cavemen.

Muslims frequently use hand basins to wash their feet. It is very common as part of pre prayer ablutions.

Even wash their feet in the kitchen sinks of their restaurants http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/11254837/Chef-caught-washing-feet-in-kitchen-sink.html

Call for national debate on Muslim sex grooming

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article4371626.ece

Another day another case http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-31695832

Thongkorn post # 8

some people got 30 years for robbing a train.

Please do not forget that Driver Jack Mills died as a result of the injuries he received in the matter.

Murder is the word.Murder should have been the charge.

Driver Jack Mills is a Railway hero sadly unsung by those who admired his killers..

Glitter got that which he deserved.

His life in prison will in my view be of limited time, and not through sentence remission but mother nature and possibly other inmates although the perverts are segregated away from the other criminal elements, ''accidents do happen.''

Jack Mills died 7 years after the robbery from leukaemia aged 64, the coroner said their was no connection between his death and the injury he'd suffered.

This has all the tones of the Southern American state and South African apartheid days.

Not acceptable in this day and age and hope tourists boycott this place.

no, its not. nice try though.

this is about hygiene, nothing else, get off your high horse

No. I'd say this is about bigotry rather than hygiene

Make it about race if you want, i still say its about shit-smeared toilets.

you make a mess at my house and you are not coming back, period,

I dont care what colour your skin is

A totally irrelevant issue from the OP.

For example, if a Malaysian guy visits your house, gets diarrhoea and accidentally peddle dashes your toilet room walls, than you would further ban all Malaysians from your home or provide a separate toilet for them? As this is what the issue is all about.

Well if a Malaysian did such a thing and then another and another and I ended up with a toilet covered in Malaysian poop every day I'd certainly ban all Malaysians from my home, so they're getting off lightly by just having to use their own karseys IMHO.