• As an applicant you should have your fingerprints and photograph taken at a visa application centre so as to get a biometric residence permit, which will be a part of your application.
• This permit should be collected within 10 days of when you have mentioned of your arrival in UK.
• All your supporting documents should be drafted, checked and prepared as per the UK immigration rules.
• Submission of Tier 1 Investor Visa can be done online or even through mail till 3 months prior to going to UK
• You will require a blank page (both sides) in your passport for the visa
• These needed documents should either be in English or Welsh

Typically, the candidate can submit a Bulgaria Investor Visa application to the consulate in their home country. Once the investment has been certified, a permanent residence application can be submitted. Permanent residents can apply for citizenship after five years of living in Bulgaria.

Alternatively, the candidate can apply for citizenship after only one year of holding permanent resident status, by doubling the investment amount through purchase of government bonds worth €512,000 or making a capital investment in a Bulgarian company that is implementing a Priority Investment Project – and holding the second (additional) investment for a two-year period.

• Existing passport or any other valid identification of travel
• Test results for tuberculosis, of you belong to a country wherein you would be required to undertake the test.
• Criminal record certificate in case you have resided in a country for a sum total of 12 months or more over the previous 10 years.
• In case you are putting in your own money for investment you will need to show the amount of money you currently have and where is it being held.
• Also, you need to show the origin of the funds if you are having the money for less than a period of 2 years, in case you have had it passed down from a relative
• However, what you need to show is that whether this money can be transferred to the UK and converted to sterling ( just in case it is outside UK)
• If the investment funds belong to your spouse/partner ensure that you can show marriage or civil partnership certificate and if you are unmarried or are in same-sex relationships, then sufficient evidence that you are in a long term relationship for a minimum of 2 years.
• Also, there should be a statement from your partner confirming that they will permit you to be in charge of their funds in UK.
• To substantiate this statement, a letter as well from legal adviser stating it is valid.
• Letter to proof of having a bank account in a regulated bank of UK that you would use for your investment funds.