Evidence of salary

niw2 · Post by **niw2** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:16 am

Hi folks,

I am a New Zealander who intends to apply under the HSMP programme early next year.

I see that, with my application, I am required to include original wage slips evidencing my salary over the past 12 months. This is a problem because, when I ask my employer to produce and sign the wage slips, they are bound to ask "why?", at which point I will have to tell them that I intend to go to the UK and leave my current job. Obviously, this is not desirable from a professional point of view; I had intended to tell my current employer only once I was certain that I would be able to work in the UK and had a job lined-up and waiting for me.

Does anyone have any advice on how this situation can be managed or acceptable alternative forms of evidence that can be sent instead of the wage slips in this situation?

Thanks in advance.

Kaff · Post by **Kaff** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:31 am

How you get paid? Check? or Direct Debit to your bank account?
Who is paying your Tax to IRD?

You definately need followings.
1. Income proof from your employeer(Salary slips/letter from emolyeer/bank statements)
2. Income tax return from IRD

You have to notify your emolyeer, in case they need to confirm about your salary...I don't see any other choice.

GOOD LUCK

SYH · Post by **SYH** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:52 am

if you have original pay slips they do not need to be signed
people get them signed if they look ordinary like on plain paper and unofficial

niw2 · Post by **niw2** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:04 am

Thank you for the first two prompt replies. Unfortunately I never had the forethought to keep my pay slips so I have always thrown them away! If only I had kept them!

Basically, I can easily obtain 12 months of bank statements showing my employer paying me directly into my bank account every two weeks. That is not a problem. However, I understand that bank statements are only acceptable in extraordinary circumstances.

The problem is the requirement to provide pay slips which I no longer have. Even if I had the ones I was originally given, they are printed on plain paper without the firm's letterhead. I am not certain that these would qualify. Any advice on this point?

SYH · Post by **SYH** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:16 am

niw2 wrote:Thank you for the first two prompt replies. Unfortunately I never had the forethought to keep my pay slips so I have always thrown them away! If only I had kept them!

Basically, I can easily obtain 12 months of bank statements showing my employer paying me directly into my bank account every two weeks. That is not a problem. However, I understand that bank statements are only acceptable in extraordinary circumstances.

The problem is the requirement to provide pay slips which I no longer have. Even if I had the ones I was originally given, they are printed on plain paper without the firm's letterhead. I am not certain that these would qualify. Any advice on this point?

It doesn't mean a disaster, it means you don't have it and I guess start keeping you latest payslips and submit those along with your bank statements and I hope you didnt through away your contract

niw2 · Post by **niw2** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:32 am

SYH wrote: It doesn't mean a disaster, it means you don't have it and I guess start keeping you latest payslips and submit those along with your bank statements and I hope you didnt through away your contract

Do you think I should enclose a copy of my contract? I can do that but it is a few years old now and doesnt show my current salary. I suppose its useful as proof that I am employed on a salary, even if it is outdated.

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:34 pm

If you have on-line payslips, print those and perhaps get the human-resources officer or the financial manager to sign them (rather than your supervisor); you may encounter fewer questions that way. If you do get questions, just say that you need validated payslips for another purpose (car loan, mortgage, sponsoring a visitor). AG

antony · Post by **antony** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:55 pm

gordon wrote:If you have on-line payslips, print those and perhaps get the human-resources officer or the financial manager to sign them (rather than your supervisor); you may encounter fewer questions that way. If you do get questions, just say that you need validated payslips for another purpose (car loan, mortgage, sponsoring a visitor). AG

Is it mandatory for the salary slips to get sealed and signed from a finance official, if we are working in the uk currently and we dont have any hard copy sent by the current employer, rather we have only the online PDF pay slips.

Also, Does it holds for the bank statements as well to get sealed and signed, even if you have the hard copy statement sent by the bank.

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:06 pm

If you've the PDFs of your payslips, then they're online payslips. You need to get them authenticated. Just because the employer doesn't send hard-copy originals doesn't mean that the online versions thereby become originals. AG

SYH · Post by **SYH** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:12 pm

gordon wrote:If you've the PDFs of your payslips, then they're online payslips. You need to get them authenticated. Just because the employer doesn't send hard-copy originals doesn't mean that the online versions thereby become originals. AG

Unless the pdfs are the representation of what they would have sent you in the mail

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Evidence of salary

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