Skilled Worker Visa for a Self Employed Professional?

[HTN]

Hi again,

There is a couple of critical questions I want to share with you in the hopes someone will help me get my ideas stright.

Since 2004 I've been a self employed professional as a Customs Compliance Training Provider and Consultant, like all self employed, I am not under any payroll nor under the wing of any employer. The years prior to being self employed, I was employed by different companies. Having an overall working experience of 12 years in the same line of profession, and counting. However...........

I have two areas of concern though:

Considering my current working status and professional experience, it seems to me that my current activity does not match the purpose of the Skilled Worker Visa option, since I don't get paid thru an employer. Is my perception an accurate one so I can foresee a problem of validation with my paper work?

What do you recommend me to do by the time I need to submit proving docuements of my work experience in concern of my past four years? What type of documentation do you think will be satisfactory enough to prove my working experience so I can make the best of these period of time as self employed? How am I suppose to manage this loophole document wise? Or simply I'm just getting it all to wrong?


Your orientation and support is very much welcomed, thank you so much in advance

[gurdeep]

Hi

Hi again,

There is a couple of critical questions I want to share with you in the hopes someone will help me get my ideas stright.

Since 2004 I've been a self employed professional as a Customs Compliance Training Provider and Consultant, like all self employed, I am not under any payroll nor under the wing of any employer. The years prior to being self employed, I was employed by different companies. Having an overall working experience of 12 years in the same line of profession, and counting. However...........

I have two areas of concern though:

Considering my current working status and professional experience, it seems to me that my current activity does not match the purpose of the Skilled Worker Visa option, since I don't get paid thru an employer. Is my perception an accurate one so I can foresee a problem of validation with my paper work?

What do you recommend me to do by the time I need to submit proving docuements of my work experience in concern of my past four years? What type of documentation do you think will be satisfactory enough to prove my working experience so I can make the best of these period of time as self employed? How am I suppose to manage this loophole document wise? Or simply I'm just getting it all to wrong?


Your orientation and support is very much welcomed, thank you so much in advance

You need to arange the experience certificates from you past employers and get reference letters from your clients for whom you are working as a freelancer - explaining the jobs you are doing for them.


Best Wishes

[HTN]

Thank you gurdeep for the advice,

That gives me a glipse of what i have to do and whom to call.........

By the way gurdeep, do you think visa officer's upon requesting my work experience documents, do you think I might be asked to present copy of my invoices, tax reports and others related to my tax abligations and administration?

If not, do you think it'll serve a purpose if I go out of my way and provide with copies of these kind of documents anyway?

Thank you

[gurdeep]

Hi

Thank you gurdeep for the advice,

That gives me a glipse of what i have to do and whom to call.........

By the way gurdeep, do you think visa officer's upon requesting my work experience documents, do you think I might be asked to present copy of my invoices, tax reports and others related to my tax abligations and administration?

If not, do you think it'll serve a purpose if I go out of my way and provide with copies of these kind of documents anyway?

Thank you

They should not ask for invoices and Tax Reports. You have more than 12 years of work experince, out of that 4 years as a self employed. You have completed the 4 years of work experience to get full points for that. You are adding the self employment experience not to leave any gap between your actual work and self employment. As per my knowlege you should not worry about invoices and tax reports.

In my case I also have given self employment  experience for number of years, but they never asked me for this kind of docs. I already sent my passports for visa stamping.


Best Wishes

[HTN]

You came thru for me gurdeep, I am really appreciative of your responses.

The very best for you