I will be eligible for ILR on 15 June 2014 and my current HSMP / Tier 1 expires on the same day. I understand that I can apply for my ILR a month before, i.e. on 15 May 2014. However, I would be one month short of the qualifying period. I also arrived in the UK on 15 June (i.e. was not in the UK on ...

Thanks Jambo, yes I understand the extension would be from the approval date (not expiry date).

Any other experiences, especially from anyone who has been in that situation, would be welcome.

Has anyone applied in person at a PEO to extend their Tier 1 General / HSMP more than 28 days before their visa expired? Were there any questions or issues raised about applying earlier? I am considering applying for an extension more than 6 months before my current visa expires and want to know if ...

Yep you can just ask them to change your statement date e.g. to 14 Feb. They there will be one statement for part of a month, i.e. from the previous statement to the new statement date, and after that they will cover a full month as usual.

Mine showed the dates the salary / dividend was paid. The date paid is important I think.

uksettlement wrote:180 days every year is allowed as per the new rules hence you are totally fine.

I don't think that is correct. Check other threads for confirmation.

For absences, it has been suggested to me to take a spreadsheet showing departure date, arrival back in UK date, absence days, reason, and (if you can) passport page numbers showing stamps.

I don't put any marks on my bank statements (highlighting, comments, etc). I use coloured post-it flags that you stick onto the pages e.g. yellow to show salary transactions, blue for dividends, etc. The caseworker can see the relevant transactions right away, but you can remove the flags after you ...

The evidence you provide must match, so what is important is when you have paid your salary and dividends over the earnings period you claimed (no point saying your salary is monthly if your bank statements won't support that). What were the dates and amounts of payments made? Which were salary and ...

You could also put a note in your covering letter explaining that the payments were made by cheque and the info you have given in your posts. I think because the dates are close there shouldn't be an issue, but if the caseworker is having a bad day it wouldn't hurt to have the explanation in a cover...

brajen is right. If you use would like to use the exact words you would "pay salary" and "declare dividends".

Gross dividends. I included a letter from my accountant showing gross salary, net salary, gross dividend, net dividend. My accountant calculated the gross amounts. The accountant's letter showed how the gross amounts corresponded with the net amounts (because my bank statements showed net amounts be...

You don't have to take all the profits from the company as salary / dividends. I don't take all mine, I pay a monthly salary and an annual dividend. The amount of the dividend varies each year depending on the company earnings and how much I want to pay out vs retain in the company account. You need...

I was outside the UK for about 6 months out of the year before I applied for a Tier 1 (HSMP) extension. I had been back in the UK for 6 months when I applied, and used evidence of my UK earnings for my application. My application was approved. Approx dates were returned to UK June 2010, applied for ...

For my applications I send both personal and company bank statements. Bank statements are "good quality" evidence of earnings because they are from a bank. I also send another form of evidence of earnings, for me this is a letter from the accountant (I am director of a ltd co).

I'm not familiar with his visas particularly. But I was under the believe to apply for ILR you had to be on a single visa type for 5 years (With exception of HSMP which is 4 yrs) So his time on the work visa wouldn't count. And is 1 year short for ILR. It depends on the visa type. Some can be aggre...

My most recent extension (under HSMP JR) was earlier this year, I think in March. The covering letter from UKBA also mentioned "Tier 1 (General)". I didn't get a BRP but I did have a vignette (a full-page visa) put in my passport. I confirmed with UKBA that BRPs aren't issued for HSMP JR applicants ...

As sushdmehta says, you can change jobs while your application is in progress. However, a new employer is likely to be reluctant to employ you because (from their perspective) you may be rejected and have to stop working, and they will have invested time and effort in training you without getting th...

The forms and guidance on the UKBA website recognise the 3 year extension for those originally on HSMP. "If you are successful, we will grant you either three years' leave or enough leave to take you to the settlement threshold, whichever is the greater." http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immi...

Why do you need them? Even if nobody has the original documents we might be able to help with the info needed.

You are legally allowed to work while your application is being processed (assuming in-time application etc). This applies for however long it takes, even if it is months, so your employer can continue employing you. However, if your employer doesn't want to wait, I am not aware of any law that prev...

You mean that your salary was deposited in your personal bank account the day before it left your business bank account ??

If you are only claiming earnings from your full-time employment (i.e. not limit company), I don't see any reason to include your limited company details in your application. They don't ask questions like "do you have any other business interests", "do you have any other employment", etc because thi...

If you had a 90+ day absence, your ILR clock re-starts the day you arrived back in the UK and you count your 5 years again. Example: If you originally arrived in the UK on 1 Feb 2007 you would be eligible for ILR after 5 years = 1 Feb 2012 provided your absences are not too many and not too long. In...

If it is important to you to get a quick resolution, I suppose you have nothing to lose by getting your MP involved. Either they say they can't help (in which case you are no worse than now) or they say they can help. If they help, either it doesn't make a difference to UKBA (in which case you are n...