How does the UKBA monitor bank account activity?

[kittykat]

Hi

On the ILR SET(O) application, we sign a declaration at the back (Section 11: Consent for the UK Border Agency to Request Verification Checks) giving them permission to check the information we have provided with banks and utility companies.

My question is, in checking financial activity, do they just go off the statements we have sent in? Or do they contact our bank and ask for updated activity? (especially given that there is now a backlog and the statements we provided are now 3+ months out of date).

Any advice welcome - thank you!

[mk357]

Hi

On the ILR SET(O) application, we sign a declaration at the back (Section 11: Consent for the UK Border Agency to Request Verification Checks) giving them permission to check the information we have provided with banks and utility companies.

My question is, in checking financial activity, do they just go off the statements we have sent in? Or do they contact our bank and ask for updated activity? (especially given that there is now a backlog and the statements we provided are now 3+ months out of date).

Any advice welcome - thank you!

They are concerned with the statements that you have provided NOT what is now in the bank. The consent you give them legal power to seek any verification from the bank about the bank statements that you provide.