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by ikh » Tue May 08, 2018 9:57 pm
Dear all,
Sorry in advance for the long post, I am trying not to miss the potentially useful details.
My ILR application went in on Wednesday. We were cutting it short, as my tier 1 (entrepreneur) visa was expiring the next day.
I have employed a solicitor back in March, but the information she asked me to provide was incomplete and I have received a long list of missing enquiries just couple of days before the application was supposed to be submitted.
When with business related issues I was able to deal within the required timeframe, the personal finance question remains incomplete even now.
The issue is: My directorial salary is exactly equal to the rent that I am paying for my flat in the UK.
I am able to live this way, because my mother sends me money, basically doubling my monthly income. My mother receives this money from leasing her flat (it used to belong to me, but I gifted it to my mom, when left to the UK). The rent money is being collected in cash (customary to the motherland) and gets deposited into my Russian account and I make a transfer into my Uk account.
The application form requires to provide at least three month bank statements, as evidence of my mother’s financial resources.
When I have discovered this requirement, the banks in Russia closed for few days of public holidays and my mother was only able to provide the copies of the online banking, which, as far as I understand, is not acceptable by the home office. We have enclosed the online statements anyway with a promise in the cover letter that we would send the originals shortly.
Now the solicitor informed me that she doesn’t think that my moms statement reflect her ability to send me this money. She asked that we would provide the title and the lease agreement to my moms flat, she says that she would rather send this and not show my mothers bank statements. To be clear, the bank statements show the amount of roughly two month rent.
Although I don’t see a major problem providing flat related documents, I find that it might confuse the home office with more information that they asked and not actually providing the requested info. I would think that this sort of information might be provided if HO requests it when they review my case.
Another thing, whilst saying all the above, the solicitor said that my sort of visa (entrepreneurial) doesn’t have a personal finance requirement per se, which adds even more confusion: why would my solicitor prefer to send the lease docs.
In the meantime the original bank statements have arrived to London.
What should I provide? Any opinion would be much appreciated.
