Gap in history ILR application and salary difference

[mkhoja1]

Hello,
I am looking to apply for my ILR in July and I have a question about some supplementary work I did in the past.
I am on a SWV as a teacher and I have tutored in the past (always under 20 hours a week and outside my contracted hours). Just to keep everything legal and above board, I filed self assessments for this income and since I was working as a contractor, I declared myself as self employed for my tutoring jobs.
I’ve read that it is difficult to prove that this kept with my visa conditions especially that it didn’t exceed 20 hours.
Now I haven’t tutored for over a year and I am not sure what Information the ILR application asks for but I’m wondering how my situation would impact my ILR application if at all?
Any advise?

[zimba]

It has no effect as you were not in breach of the visa conditions. ILR application does not ask about this either

[mkhoja1]

Sounds reassuring. Thanks

I have read at places that home office can flag tax discrepancies. Or if they were to look at my hmrc tax records they would find that for some years there are two sources of income. One at my main employer and the other me being self employed. Would that not flag something fishy?

[zimba]

Sounds reassuring. Thanks

I have read at places that home office can flag tax discrepancies. Or if they were to look at my hmrc tax records they would find that for some years there are two sources of income. One at my main employer and the other me being self employed. Would that not flag something fishy?

No. This has no relevance to your ILR. You probably came across discussions of fairly old (but highly publicised) tax related refusals under the old Tier 1 General route, where some applicants made false representations regarding their earnings in their tax returns and used those false claims to qualify for and obtain Tier 1 visas deceptively.

[mkhoja1]

I have applied for an ILR Set (O) application this week and am in the process of uploading documents with my biometric appointment next week.

I entered the date I first entered the uk as the date my BRP started on my Tier 2 visa back in 2020. Before then I was in the uk as a student.

In the question about whether I’ve lived anywhere other than the uk I have added I lived in my home country till August 2019. I haven’t mentioned that I left to study in the uk.

So there is a gap between 2019 August and 2020 August. Should I upload a cover letter explaining I was doing a course in the uk during that time or is that not necessary?

Second: the salary I added in my form before I submitted was based on my employer letter. As I was gathering my documents I realised that my payslip shows an increment that HR didn’t update on the letter. I’ve asked HR to fix that and I will upload that as my employer letter
Is providing a clarification that at the time of submitting the application the salary letter available to me was not reflecting the increment and I am uploading an updated employer letter with the correct salary be enough clarification? The only other thing I can think of is withdraw my application before I go for the biometric for a refund and then resubmit.

Thanks for any advice I can get. Much appreciated.

I’m in that phase where I will be anxious until a decision is made and I will be prone to over thinking things. So I thank you for your patience.

[zimba]

The gap is irrelevant to your ILR. UKVI will use the evidence submitted, not the answers on the form to make a decision

[mkhoja1]

Update:
ILR granted.

Thanks