New successful case and testimonial on a Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa, switching from a Post-Study Work visa

By 1st 4Immigration - #1 UK Immigration Experts -
“That's great news, thank you! I guess I will be your first Nigerian client who doesn't get invited for a face to face interview!” This came from Obi, a Nigerian national, who switched from a Post-Study Work Visa to an Entrepreneur category. His previous application was refused, before coming to us, because he did not provide an advert for his company. Even though many applicants genuinely don’t need to advertise their businesses, such as they are already working as contractors, the Entrepreneur rules do require to produce one of the specified ways of advertising, ie because ‘it is a rule’ (rather than common business sense). In this case we used a free advert on a Gumtree website.

As for the interviews, we already wrote in the earlier posts how the UKBA, or rather now UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) are inviting many applicants for a face-to-face interview in Sheffield. All our Nigerian clients before Obi were invited for one. Obi was also interviewed but what was unusual in this case is that Obi was phoned by the UKVI and asked for a phone interview at that very moment, on a Saturday morning. He did not have any chance to prepare and had to answers the questions about his business and plans for the future. We had already submitted extra documents when we submitted this application, as per the Genuine Entrepreneur Test – evidence of having an accountant, business insurance, business plan, a CV and evidence of a business account. All that was provided from the start, even though it is not compulsory and not ‘specified evidence’. (Specified evidence are the documents which you must provide and without which your application is refused, even if you have provided lots of other alternative evidence. Like the applicant’s previous application was refused because of absence of an advert, which was part of the specified evidence).

In the end all went OK and our client did not have to go for face-to-face interview while a visa was granted in a couple of weeks after that along with a Dependant visa for the spouse.

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