Applying in different ways-urgent help needed

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Hi gays,

We have been applied for business visas as self-employed
persons under ECAA. Our business plans were respectively
for Public Relations and Civil Engineering business. These
days we wrote in the Home Office web site about the
requirements and the specifics of Highly Skilled Migrant
Programme. We counted our points (I have 90 points - 15 for education even I am Master in Bulgaria; 50 - work experience, 35 points for International award, 5 - for age and 10 form my high-skilled boyfriend - we live together more than 5 years).

All applications from the self-employed under
the ECAA scheme, according to Mr. Browne, will remain
suspended in the light of the ongoing investigation by Ken
Sutton.* In fact, we really would like to establish
business in UK in the area of our knowledge and
professional experience. But we wrote that it is also
possible to do that under HSMS.

So, our question is: Is it possible for us to apply for
visas under Highly Skilled Migrant Programme before the
result of our previous applications? Or we cannot apply for
visas in two different ways?

Thank you very much in advance!!!!!
Becauste I have been asked a customer form Work Permits by e-mail but I have no answer at all...


* Visa services in Bulgaria and Romania were
temporarily suspended on 30 March, following allegations of
improper handling of applications from those seeking to
enter the UK under the provisions of the European Community
Association Agreements (ECAA). Then the Home Secretary
announced that, as part of this wider review, Ken Sutton
had been asked to investigate allegations of abuse of the
European Community Association Agreements (ECAA) scheme by
nationals from Bulgaria and Romania. At the same time,
consideration of all visa and after-entry applications from
these countries was suspended.
From 13 April, the suspension was lifted for the majority of
visa applications in Bulgaria and Romania – for business
and family visits, and low-risk categories such as official
staff. On 19 May The Minister for Citizenship and
Immigration Mr. Des Browne announced the lifting of the
suspension on applications from Bulgaria and Romania for
the temporary low-skill (SAWS and SBS) schemes, for the
high-skill schemes (work permits and HSMP), and for all
after-entry cases.
The one exception is applications from the self-employed
under the ECAA scheme, which, according to Mr. Browne, will
remain suspended in the light of the ongoing investigation
by Ken Sutton.

[Cosmopol]

I don't see why not - especially in the light of your first application not being processed right now. When your HSMP app is approved you could graciously withdraw the first one, and happily move to the UK.
Good luck!


P.S. Would you pardon me if I suggest to brush up your English a little in anticipation of relocation to Britain? For example, you use the verb "wrote" (past tense from "write") when you mean "read", which is the opposite. Also, "gays" is a term commonly referring to homosexual males (although not necessarily), while what you meant is probably "guys".
I don't like being a stickler, but I felt it's best to point this out to you - hope you see the good will in it

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Thank you very much!
And sorry for my English!
I'm going to improve it, I promise!!

[Cosmopol]