ILR Interview Call After Postal Application - Please Help

Amendments are refusal in eyes of ukba. This interview i dont think will make any difference.

If you have a geniune reason and convince them I think there won't be a problem. If it was a refusal then why they are calling for an interview. Your friend may not have been able convince them

@Raju4u, @farwailrthis questionaire for premium service. Do we have to fill one at interview as well
tim -

1. Have you worked as Self Employed or worked as the Director or shareholder of a Limited company? If answer is yes, go to question 2 or return questionnaire to the desk officer
2. What is/was the nature of your business as a Self Employed person - Sole Trader, Contractor, Limited Company (Director or Shareholder), Other (please specify)
3. Confirm the financial years in which you were registered as Self employed in the UK? years started from 2009-10 to 2014-15
4.For financial years registered as self-employed, please confirm years for which a Self-assessment tax return was submitted to HMRC (This does not include a Company Tax return for a limited company) - again years started from 2009-10 to 2014-15
5. Please specify type of business you engaged in to generate income
6. Did you use an accountant to assist in submitted your SA tax returns to HMRC? If yes, go to question 7
7. Please provide name of accountants used
8. Confirm type of documents used in order to prepare your SA tax returns - choices were Invoice, Bank Statements, Dividend Vouchers, Payslips, Others
9. Are you satisfied that the SA tax returns submitted to HMRC accurately reflected your income? If not, why not and what further action have to taken to address it?
10 Any other comments

Had a chat with someone who went for interview recently.

He said the questions were mostly around his business activities. Few questions were around taxation. If you know your business practices well which one should, he/she should be fine.

If someone earns 30K in 4 months and do nothing rest of the year he/she can expect an interview call.

Anyone who had taken TOEIC exam in the past, irrespective of whether the result was used in an immigration application or not, may also be asked to attend an interview.

farwailr wrote:Had a chat with someone who went for interview recently.

He said the questions were mostly around his business activities. Few questions were around taxation. If you know your business practices well which one should, he/she should be fine.

If someone earns 30K in 4 months and do nothing rest of the year he/she can expect an interview call.

Hi farwailr
Has he recieved his descion yet?

can you upload the interview questions please

Anyone had interview yet?

wasi36 wrote:@Raju4u, @farwailrthis questionaire for premium service. Do we have to fill one at interview as well
tim -

1. Have you worked as Self Employed or worked as the Director or shareholder of a Limited company? If answer is yes, go to question 2 or return questionnaire to the desk officer
2. What is/was the nature of your business as a Self Employed person - Sole Trader, Contractor, Limited Company (Director or Shareholder), Other (please specify)
3. Confirm the financial years in which you were registered as Self employed in the UK? years started from 2009-10 to 2014-15
4.For financial years registered as self-employed, please confirm years for which a Self-assessment tax return was submitted to HMRC (This does not include a Company Tax return for a limited company) - again years started from 2009-10 to 2014-15
5. Please specify type of business you engaged in to generate income
6. Did you use an accountant to assist in submitted your SA tax returns to HMRC? If yes, go to question 7
7. Please provide name of accountants used
8. Confirm type of documents used in order to prepare your SA tax returns - choices were Invoice, Bank Statements, Dividend Vouchers, Payslips, Others
9. Are you satisfied that the SA tax returns submitted to HMRC accurately reflected your income? If not, why not and what further action have to taken to address it?
10 Any other comments

Q.9...Do we have to say yes for question 9 if we have amended tax for previous years. Reason i am asking that after amendments it accurately reflects our income. Or they are asking about original amendments

My friend was interviewed last week. It was all about his self employment earnings. Only one question was around tax. He had few invoices from one client so caseworker was discussing the services given to that client in particular.

farwailr wrote:My friend was interviewed last week. It was all about his self employment earnings. Only one question was around tax. He had few invoices from one client so caseworker was discussing the services given to that client in particular.

Farwailr. Many thanks for replying. Were those questions regarding previous application self employment or mostly regarding current application?
Did he fill Questionaire?
Did he amended his tax? Any question regarding amendments?
Was he interviewed by TM interview hub or at home office?

Had an interview today at vfs/ ukvi. It was via skype. Location was indian embassy vfs and 1 room was allocated to ukvi interview team. 1 hour interview. All 5 employments and self employment records were asked. Tax discrepencies was main focus of the interview even though there were couple of question about tax but attitude about job activities was to get information but questions about tax was investigative.

Hi wasi

what you mean from location was indian embbasy? did you mean that they interviewed you at indian embassy in London? and how did they know about your tax amendmnets ? had you told them in advance when you post your application?

One of my friend also had interview today, they asked him about his business and employment. He was throughly grilled on self employed. No form was filled but caseworker asked him why there resubmission of tax docs. Caseworker also brought extension earnings as well and now gave him 14 days to send atleast 5 clients information to confirm the business transactions from extension. Also caseworker asked for phone bills and any email correspondence he did to contact clients.

Access they have from hmrc is till jan 15 and amenments we make does not show in their system. Then we attach updated sa302. Thats how they knw

they gone nuts..what are they trying to establish now? and cant they see the business transaction in bank statements? and what was stopping them at the time of extension to not verify..and asking now...

wasi36 wrote:Had an interview today at vfs/ ukvi. It was via skype. Location was indian embassy vfs and 1 room was allocated to ukvi interview team. 1 hour interview. All 5 employments and self employment records were asked. Tax discrepencies was main focus of the interview even though there were couple of question about tax but attitude about job activities was to get information but questions about tax was investigative.

Many thanks for sharing your experience wasi36. Please can you advise what date you submit your biometrics and also did you include your revised(amended)tax calculations in your file ?

Date of app. 5/3/16
Bio letter. 12/3/16
Bio submtd. 12/3/16
Interview email. 26/4/16
Interviewed.19/5/16

wasi36 wrote:Date of app. 5/3/16
Bio letter. 12/3/16
Bio submtd. 12/3/16
Interview email. 26/4/16
Interviewed.19/5/16

Many many thanks @wasi36. Just last question ! Did you submit your Amended tax calculations with your file ?

Updated sa302. Yes i did

wasi36 wrote:Updated sa302. Yes i did

Thanks ! M also expecting interview now as I had also amendment and revised tax calculations were submitted with my application.

Hi all, not a good news. One my friend’s friend has been interviewed three weeks ago and got refusal letter this morning. Caseworker asked him to send clients phone numbers and written explanation why he revised his tax figures. The cw refused him on being dishonest and business is not genuine.

better not to submit any tax documents which are not straight forward like revised tax calculation because mostly have recieved the amendments written on it which raised the concern to cw and then interview gets call...

farwailr wrote:Hi all, not a good news. One my friend’s friend has been interviewed three weeks ago and got refusal letter this morning. Caseworker asked him to send clients phone numbers and written explanation why he revised his tax figures. The cw refused him on being dishonest and business is not genuine.

what years client detail has been asked current extension or initial years?

Just checked with my friend, he said two clients information from extension and four clients this time. He had done around 15K business from two clients in extension and around 3-4K with each client during ILR.