zimba wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:12 pm
I pointed out that you seem not to know that you cannot claim self-employment earnings for non-overlapping periods in your documents. You cannot claim earnings for the April 22-23 tax year and then your other documents (like your accounts) do not also cover the same period. It seems you are missing the accounts that
cover for the period November 2022 to April 2023, so I suspected that is what the content of that email is alluding to. The UKVI needs to asses your
annual income accurately, this is why the official guide advises you to match tax years to avoid such issues:
The evidence submitted must cover the relevant financial year or years most recently ended. A self-assessment tax return may include provisional figures, where the return explains why this is so and how the figures were arrived at, and in which case a covering letter explaining this and how any provisional figures tie in with other material submitted, for example, audited or unaudited accounts, may be helpful. This means that a sponsor wishing to rely on earnings from self-employment as a sole trader, as a partner or in a franchise will need to arrange to file their self-assessment tax return to HMRC on a timescale geared to meeting this requirement of the Immigration Rules rather than the deadline set for UK tax purposes. Similarly, in respect of the Company Tax Return CT600, where the sponsor is a director or other employee of a specified limited company in the UK.
If a person has different financial years, for example, because they are both self employed and a director or other employee (or both) of a specified limited company, their income from the self-assessment tax return and Company Tax Return financial years cannot be combined to meet the financial requirement. Including income from differently based financial years would not be a fair or accurate way of calculating a person’s annual income. This restriction also applies where a person and their partner have income based on different financial years: the application must rely on both partners’ eligible income in the same financial year(s).
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... rement.pdf
First we are applied under Category F
Category F: Last full financial year
Where the applicant’s partner (and/or the applicant if they are in the UK with
permission to work) is in self-employment or is either the director or employee (or
both) of a specified limited company in the UK, at the date of application, they can
use income from the last full financial year to meet the financial requirement.
Thismeans that a sponsor wishing to rely on earnings from self-employment as a sole
trader, as a partner or in a franchise will need to arrange to file their self-assessment
tax return to HMRC on a timescale geared to meeting this requirement of the
Immigration Rules rather than the deadline set for UK tax purposes.
This covers for those who are applying as Self Employement or director of Specified Limited Company, we are Partnership our buisiness does not fall under Limited Company.
And the Main point from this guidance:
where income to which paragraph 19 applies is being used to meet the financial
requirement for an initial application for leave to remain as a partner under
Appendix FM by an applicant who used such income to meet that requirement
in an application for entry clearance as a fiancé or fiancée or proposed civil
partner under that Appendix in the last 12 months, the Secretary of State may
continue to accept the same level and evidence of income to which paragraph
19 applies that was accepted in granting the application for entry clearance,
provided that there is evidence of ongoing self-employment, and (where
income from salaried employment is also relied upon or where paragraph 9(c)
applies) ongoing employment, at the date of the application for leave to remain
