Advice on proving self employment hours for 138 Sender: monkeypeaches

Hi there,

We're sending in our application on the basis of my husband's skills and could use some advice on how to sufficiently prove experience, hours of work, etc

He's a freelance journalist and has worked for one client for the last three years on virtually a full-time basis. We've already gone through Vetbuttess. What we're unsure about is how to actually prove that he's worked more than 20 hours per week - given that his earnings are comparable to a full-time job would we even need to prove hours worked?

We're looking at submitting the following:

1 - a work reference from the client (the standard one with five main duties, etc) 2 - a second letter of reference from the client detailing the amount invoiced for each month (this, I hope, could be provided in lieu of an official receipt and could also potentially state that work on the publication involves more than 20 hours per week) 3 - copies of tax returns and-or copies of statements of account from the inland revenue 4 - possibly a statutory declaration confirming that my husband works more than 20 hours a week, and the date he commenced working for the client

I guess my question is do we need all of the above - or, in fact, do we need anything else in addition to the above? Is there anything we might have missed?

Thanks in advance for any help and advice. Rach

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