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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by speshow » Thu Jul 07, 2016 7:56 pm

Celina wrote:Hi Speshow ,

Thank you for your information , Can you please let us know if

1) you were for 50000 or 2 lakh ?

2) how much was your overall interview time ?

3 ) apart for this questions any other question asked please .


Thanking you ,

Regards
Celina .

Hi Celine,

1)I am 200k
2)about 45mins
3)no more questions , all just very basic question.

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by chiibe » Thu Jul 07, 2016 8:57 pm

Hi all,
I have had my own entrepreneur visa ext interview held at aVFS office via a video call.
She explained she will take notes but cannot write everything down
first questions were normal one for example name,date of birth etc
full name of company
how long have you been director of company
What is your occupation (I asked since in UK or before, she said all)
what does your company do
How many contracts have you done. (we don't do contracts, so she explained the questions were set having contracts in mind therefore she will skip all contract related questions).
How do you manage your Time?
Who are my suppliers, my competitors.
Did I employ? How many? What are their names?
How did you get them, did you advertise for them?
Where do they work from
Did you have to train your employees?
Do you have plans to employ more in future? Will you advertise for such then?
Did you invest? How much have you invested? Where did you get the money from?
How much is your net profit
You do not have a website, why? (The only question tailored to my business)
How much did you spend on advert
Have you made any adjustments to the business?
When did you file Tax Returns
Have you paid any Corporation tax
Do you have an accountant? (I gave firm name) Who in particular is your Accountant? (I relate to two gave main persons name) What is their address?

At this point she said she will scroll through to see all questions are covered since she skipped some that are not applicable.
She read out some noted I requested she add some other info into what she had written.

I asked what next. She will pass notes to Case worker. I asked timeline, She said unfortunately she can't give, but I should note they are very busy at the moment.

I believe they have a general format of questions and a few tailored to each case depending on what they want to clarify.
In all it took about 50 mins.

I wish everyone the best.

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by speshow » Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:25 pm

chiibe wrote:Hi all,
I have had my own entrepreneur visa ext interview held at aVFS office via a video call.
She explained she will take notes but cannot write everything down
first questions were normal one for example name,date of birth etc
full name of company
how long have you been director of company
What is your occupation (I asked since in UK or before, she said all)
what does your company do
How many contracts have you done. (we don't do contracts, so she explained the questions were set having contracts in mind therefore she will skip all contract related questions).
How do you manage your Time?
Who are my suppliers, my competitors.
Did I employ? How many? What are their names?
How did you get them, did you advertise for them?
Where do they work from
Did you have to train your employees?
Do you have plans to employ more in future? Will you advertise for such then?
Did you invest? How much have you invested? Where did you get the money from?
How much is your net profit
You do not have a website, why? (The only question tailored to my business)
How much did you spend on advert
Have you made any adjustments to the business?
When did you file Tax Returns
Have you paid any Corporation tax
Do you have an accountant? (I gave firm name) Who in particular is your Accountant? (I relate to two gave main persons name) What is their address?

At this point she said she will scroll through to see all questions are covered since she skipped some that are not applicable.
She read out some noted I requested she add some other info into what she had written.

I asked what next. She will pass notes to Case worker. I asked timeline, She said unfortunately she can't give, but I should note they are very busy at the moment.

I believe they have a general format of questions and a few tailored to each case depending on what they want to clarify.
In all it took about 50 mins.

I wish everyone the best.

Hi did you done interview today in London, I think we are the same person did interviewd . She is name sheron?

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by chiibe » Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:42 pm

Sounds like Sharon but I wasn't at London. Could be possible since its a video call.

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hi

Post by Celina » Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:44 pm

Hi Regularuser ,

No I still haven't received the second letter with the date , I also received my first letter on 13 june so lets see . let me know when you receive your second letter and I will do so as well . Hopefully we will receive next week .

Regards
Celina .

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by suvalike » Sun Jul 10, 2016 9:40 pm

Hi Guys,

My Tier 1 ent. extension interview done.Please update as soon someone receive the outcome after interview....... Thx

Name
DOB

Company name?

Is it registered?

With who?

What's the business?

Are you employed?

What business experience do you have?

Do you pay employees NI... how much every month ?



How much office rent on monthly basis?

When did you move to this office ?



How did you get your accountant
Did you know the employees before


Total gross profit so far

Turn over last year?

Turn over doesn't show in business account?

Do you have any other account?

What bank you have account with ?

How much you have paid to accountant so far ?
How many employees you have?

When did they start?

What's their roles?

How much you pay them ?

How much you pay them monthly ?

What's their qualification?

Do you know their address?

Do they work in office ?


Total gross profit so far?

Have you paid any tax
Insurance?

Next door opposite shops
Employees salary doesn't show in Business Account... do you pay from business account...?

When do you pay ?

Do you have any contracts?

What services to each client?

How do you manage time with these contracts?

How much have you spent on advertising?

Where do you advertise?

How much you have invested so far?

How much you have spent so far ?

Where the turn over came from?

Regards

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by jamal385 » Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:18 pm

i had entrepreneur visa ext interview (50k,own money).interview held via vedio link.
1: first 4-5 question normal one
2:who is ABC (ABC is my company HR manager its mentions on my company website they took it from there).
3:who is XYZ (XYZ is one f my full time employee).
4: XYZ is not your employee he is sub contractor (every things i send it to the HO but still she was asking).
5: how much u spent on advertisement so far.
6: last time when someone contact you for your services via your website.
7:about 50k.(50k totally comes from my own saving).
8:how many contract you did so far.
9:how mush money you get from third party.
10:how you manage to gave time to your business
11:how much share you get from third party.
12:you gave any health and safety training to your employee.
13:how money e,employee you have and how you recruit it.

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by roshanvsn » Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:23 pm

Hi Everyone,
I been to my interview today in London. Forum has been really helpful to prepare for the interview hence I thought it would be best to share my experience of interview too. Interview lasted for about 1hr and all in all it was very much about my application only. Interviewer asked range of questions from :
1. Business clients: their Names, what did I do for them, how much I have charged them, Invoices query?
2. All Employees I have recruited so far, their names and job roles?
3. Investment questions, How much I have invested so far and how, description of few investments?
4. current minimum wage and How much I have been paying to my staffs.
5. Corporation tax percentage, accountant details etc.

I found this interview to be very investigative as Interviewer has worked on my case in detail and had quite a lot of information available from the internet and other sources. I decided to be honest and given most the information as they are. since I have multiple businesses in UK he enquired in detail about them too and my business plan for future. I told him I do not wish to put all my eggs in one basket therefore I wanted to run simultaneous business too and they are doing well in compare to my core business. He seemed to be impressed by the argument and was appreciating my business zeal however not sure if they do this to everyone. He suggested it may take bit longer since they have lot of applications pending and I should not expect a speedy decision.

My suggestion to everyone would be get well prepared and read all the application documents you submitted. Please don't assume they would ignore few bits here and there. My understanding is they want to make sure that you know your stuffs really well and your business is a genuine one.

Best of luck to everyone!

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Dangerous Dragon » Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:13 pm

Thanks for ur update Roshanvsn
roshanvsn wrote:Hi Everyone,
I been to my interview today in London. Forum has been really helpful to prepare for the interview hence I thought it would be best to share my experience of interview too. Interview lasted for about 1hr and all in all it was very much about my application only. Interviewer asked range of questions from :
1. Business clients: their Names, what did I do for them, how much I have charged them, Invoices query?
2. All Employees I have recruited so far, their names and job roles?
3. Investment questions, How much I have invested so far and how, description of few investments?
4. current minimum wage and How much I have been paying to my staffs.
5. Corporation tax percentage, accountant details etc.

I found this interview to be very investigative as Interviewer has worked on my case in detail and had quite a lot of information available from the internet and other sources. I decided to be honest and given most the information as they are. since I have multiple businesses in UK he enquired in detail about them too and my business plan for future. I told him I do not wish to put all my eggs in one basket therefore I wanted to run simultaneous business too and they are doing well in compare to my core business. He seemed to be impressed by the argument and was appreciating my business zeal however not sure if they do this to everyone. He suggested it may take bit longer since they have lot of applications pending and I should not expect a speedy decision.

My suggestion to everyone would be get well prepared and read all the application documents you submitted. Please don't assume they would ignore few bits here and there. My understanding is they want to make sure that you know your stuffs really well and your business is a genuine one.

Best of luck to everyone!

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by shaf2008 » Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:03 am

hi All,

8 weeks since the first interview letter, No news so far on the second letter or email.

Any updates ?

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Anna2016 » Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:22 am

shaf2008 wrote:hi All,

8 weeks since the first interview letter, No news so far on the second letter or email.

Any updates ?
Dear friend ,
I am becoming more relax now because the case worked decided your situation .It should take very long time if they are gong no their holiday . I think they will contact us eventually .

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Celina » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:34 pm

same here , long time since first letter no signs of second letter yet ,

is anyone else in same situation ?

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by shaf2008 » Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:30 am

HI All,

I got the interview letter today, but i only have few days notice. my interview is this Friday at London.
I was told to go to one of their center . the letter doesn't say if its a skype or in person interview,

I can see, on this forum that most people had skype interviews.

can you please clarify?

is it worth taking any documents or taking our representative with us.

all feed backs welcome.

I will go through the interview questions on this forum before i go to the interview.

Regards

Sha

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by regularuser » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:54 pm

Shaf2008,

Good luck for your interview.

Have you received first letter or just this letter after your ext. application ?

Thanks

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by shaf2008 » Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:52 am

HI ,

No i received the first letter 8 weeks ago. this is the second one.

Can anyone attended interview comment?

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by roshanvsn » Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:29 am

Hi shaf

If it's in London very likely it will be via video.

You can possibly make notes but my experience says you will be more into answering questions hence won't really get a chance to write up.

Not sure about representatives but I didn't take anyone and looked unnecessary as well.

Hope this helps
shaf2008 wrote:HI ,

No i received the first letter 8 weeks ago. this is the second one.

Can anyone attended interview comment?

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by shaf2008 » Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:26 am

Thanks Roshan,

Hope everything will be OK ?

Any other suggestions?

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by marantok » Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:38 am

After a long wait.. I got the first interview letter dated 16/07 today.

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by kash80 » Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:20 am

Friday i have attended my interview for entrepreneur extension, video link interview and same questions.
Tip: you can take a documents with you or piece of paper( just to write down some information). She asked how much NI i have paid for my employees, i have 6 employees and i remember all but its a chance people forget so its depend how good you know all the numbers :D .

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Dangerous Dragon » Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:01 pm

Hi Marantok,

What is your time line, I done my bio metrics on 15 of June and still waiting for any communication.
marantok wrote:After a long wait.. I got the first interview letter dated 16/07 today.

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by marantok » Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:27 pm

After 9 weeks of my Bio, I got the first letter

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Anna2016 » Tue Jul 19, 2016 5:05 pm

Dear friends ,I got the email from HO today which has arranged the place and time for my interview. I have't received first letter only this email straight away. I will attend the interview on 28th July . I applied on 27th april and I haven't received any feed back until this email. I will share it after it .all the best for us.

Anna

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Dangerous Dragon » Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:16 pm

Thanks for the info mate, probably I might need to wait for some more time.
marantok wrote:After 9 weeks of my Bio, I got the first letter

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Dangerous Dragon » Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:18 pm

All the best for your interview Anna, wish u get a positive response. Please do share ur experience after the interview.
Anna2016 wrote:Dear friends ,I got the email from HO today which has arranged the place and time for my interview. I have't received first letter only this email straight away. I will attend the interview on 28th July . I applied on 27th april and I haven't received any feed back until this email. I will share it after it .all the best for us.

Anna

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Re: urgent help needed for entrepreneur visa ext interview

Post by Anna2016 » Thu Jul 21, 2016 3:58 pm

I will ,no problem :D

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