(Even more added) Questions asked at a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa interview.

These are the questions from the recent interviews of our clients. A Home Office employee, who is conducting an interview, will only be there "to write your answers down", they won't be looking at your documents, won't most likely have your case at all with him/her and probably won't be even familiar with your case. It is very likely that the person who is interviewing you was just sent to ask you question and write your answers down.

This case was based on switching from Tier 1 (Post-Study Work) to Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa, so there was a requirement to already run a business in the UK.

1. Where did you complete your studies, what did you study? What have you been doing since then? (Here anything  related to your business idea helps).
2. Did you have any other work or business experience before that? (Here anything  related to your business idea helps.)
3. What is your business name, what is your business activities? (Here you need to remember what you (or an adviser) wrote in your business plan.)
4. Have you done any market research? (If the answer is No, you could be in trouble.)
5. How do you advertise your business? Which is the most successful advertisement?
6. How many clients do you have ? How did they find you?
7. Did you have any payment from them? (Here if you did, you should refer to the evidence, such as a bank statement with the payments in question.)
8. What service did you provide them?
9. How much money did you spend so far? (Remember, you need to invest £50,000 or £200,000 of funds (depending on your category), so the visa officers would like to know what you're going to do with the money.)
10. What is your main expenditure?
11. Do you employee anyone?
12. How do you support yourself now? Where do the money come from?
13. Why has your Sponsor given you the money? Does he/she expect the money back? ( This applies to cases where you had the funds from a third party.)
14. Does your business have any insurance, who is the insurance provider? (If you already running a business, we would advise to submit such documents with the initial application. It also not uncommon not to remember where insurance is from, so it is important to know, or to have records, of what you had submitted with your application earlier.)
15. Where do you work from? How much do you pay for the office?
16. Is your business registered with any professional organisation?

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