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Tier 1 (Entrepreneur)

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Documents required

This section describes the documents that you must send us as evidence when you apply to enter or remain in the UK under Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) of the points-based system.

When you make your application, you must provide all the necessary documents with your application form.

We will only contact you to ask you missing documents if you have submitted:

  • a sequence of documents, and some of the documents in the sequence have been omitted (for example, if one bank statement from a series is missing);
  • a document in the wrong format;
  • a document that is a copy and not an original document; or
  • a document which does not contain all of the specified information.

We will contact you or your representative in writing, and the evidence must be received by the Home Office processing centres within 7 working days. We may refuse the application if the correct documents are not sent.

We will not ask for further information where;

  • none of the information has been submitted (for example, if an English language certificate is missing); or
  • where we do not anticipate that a correction of minor errors or omissions will lead to an approval because the application will fail for other reasons.

The only documents we will accept as evidence are those listed in the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) guidance notes, which you can download from the right side of this page.

The Can you apply? section explains how to score the points you need in our points assessment.

For information about the documents that you must send with your application, see the following pages:

Initial applications:
Extension applications: