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Hi, can anybody help me, I need clarification on what criminal background check the Bulgarian embassy needs due to being different ones in the UK

@gwynj

Could you please聽 also post all聽 the requirement to extend the Prolonged residence permit?

i have down loaded the form but won鈥檛 let me edit it??

@Waynehdragon

You need to open it in Word or a similar program or app. If you don't have Word, it should work in Google Docs. If you're on an Apple device there's a link to some special instructions on the page you downloaded it from.

A general question with regard to the various documents required.

most things such as pension slips, bank statements etc are online. Some bank accounts are online only with no branches.

Are online documents, statements etc which have been printed, translated and notorised etc acceptable? I would imagine it's virtually impossible to get copies of documents through the post from some organisations.

@alanjolly65

My printed statements from Barclays were acceptable at the Embassy, Pension documents must have a certifiable wet signature so I had to ring the provider for this.

@grahamstark1

Thank you Graham. That's very useful.

How did you find this information? Did you use someone to help you through the process?

@alanjolly65

Hi, the woman who used to do the Visa D applications in London was very helpful at the time (2022) but believe she has now moved on. I did a lot of my own research but also employed my Advocate that I already had to double check everything and assist me when I was back here in Bulgaria with my residency applications. I am in the Vratsa Immigration on Monday to go through the process for year 3 of my prolonged residency.

As for the wet signature issue, I believe that was a Bulgarian stipulation for any notarised documents such as private pension annual statements and letters.

The Visa D process is relatively straightforward certainly on Pension grounds, it gets a little more tricky sometimes depending on where you live in Bulgaria with the actual residency application as some areas are more used to expats than others I guess.

I came at 58 on a private pension and have had no issues so far. Good luck and if i can help you at all, just message.

@CharlotteB18

Hello Charlotte

I am hoping you could advise us on something鈥檚 please.

my husband has 2 properties in Bulgaria

1 he purchased before Brexit

1 he purchased after Brexit ( and a company )

He has a pre Brexit residency

His English friend wants to purchase the 2nd property. He has no residency in Bulgaria, this will all be new to him.

He lives in London.

My husband has agreed to rent the 2nd property for 6/12 months before his friend buys.

Do you know what my husband鈥檚 friend would need in order to do this please?

He has his own company in England and this will be his source of income while living in Bulgaria.

Is this arrangement doable? It is a minefield trying to read all the information and Jaron terms on official websites and we are now stuck.

extreme gratitude for any advise you can send our way.

thank you

@sammibenfell18

Be careful! As regards the post-Brexit property, legally-speaking your husband doesn't own it; it's owned by the company. He can't rent it out, the company does. If the company rents it out, it is no longer non-trading, will have to make monthly andn annual returns, and pay tax on the rental income (regardless of how small that is). You'll need a lawyer to draft the lease agreement, and an accountant make the monthly and annual returns. One of them must file a Reactivation Notice within 7 days of the lease being signed (there are fines if you don't) and you'll need a company bank account in which to deposit the rent.

It's cheaper to just let the guy stay there for nothing!

@sammibenfell18

I'm not sure who Charlotte is or why you directed your comment to her, but this is an old thread and they may not be active on the forum now.

As @JImJ says, your husband probably will find that renting out that property will make things more complicated. What you can do to give his friend the proof of having somewhere to live in Bulgaria he needs to apply for the D visa is a simple notarised document stating that the company gives him permission to live in the property. Any Bulgarian notary should be able to do this for your husband and will know what is needed on the form (likely to be the company ID number, the original notary paperwork for the property purchase, a copy of your husband's passport, a copy of his friend's passport). I had to get one saying my company聽 gives me and my husband permission to live in our property.

In terms of what grounds for the D visa your husband's friend can use to get residency, this is more complicated and depends on the friend's business, how much it earns, and whether it earns from solely online work or not. He may be able to qualify as a TRO, trade representative overseas for his UK company, provided it's registered with companies house and has two years worth of tax documents with a turnover of at least 50,000. Or if the business involves him working online which he can do from Bulgaria, he may be able to qualify as a digital nomad, which only gives 2 years residency but has a lower income requirement -- proof of grossing just under 28,000 Euro in 2025.

There's NO easy route. He needs to read up on the options, and if he's serious about getting residency may need the help of an immigration lawyer. There's a simplified version of the various categories and requirements here: though she hasn't posted the Digital Nomad requirements on this page.聽 Here's info on that from an experienced immigration lawyer who is active on the forum:

I hope that helps!

@JimJ thank you for your help.

I should have stated 鈥榬ent will be free鈥�.

we are just confused as to how he becomes able to stay in Bulgaria. My husband did all his paperwork pre Brexit.

@janemulberry

Thank you for your detailed reply.

He will be renting it free of charge, I should have stated that.

As he lives in England we didn鈥檛 know if it would be easier to get his D Visa in England or go to Bulgaria and do it, also very unsure as to what he does need after the D Visa.

The friends company will stay based in England. He will just be doing the books from Bulgaria. His sons will do the rest in England. He will be getting his income from the company, can you please advise on whether he should do the D visa or the TRO. Would he still need to open up a limited company in Bulgaria?

any help is gratefully received - thank you

@sammibenfell18

Having an address is only part of the requirements - things have tightened up quite a bit over the past few years and there are quite a few additional hoops to just through (nothing like in other, stricter, countries like Greece etc, though!)

I'm sure that Jane will chip in re the current requirements, she's well clued up on them...

@sammibenfell18

Yes, it's much more complicated after Brexit! Also the law on Foreigners in Bulgaria was updated in June last year changing some of the rules, so even how someone else tells you they got residency post Brexit but a couple of years ago might not work now.

He has to apply for the D visa in the UK. That part can't be done in Bulgaria, it has to be done in the country the person is normally resident in. Then once he has the D Visa stamp in his passport, valid for 6 months, he goes to Bulgaria to apply for his first year of residency at the local immigration office. After that he reapplies at the local immigration office every year for five years, and then he can apply for longer-term residency.

He will need to set up a non-active Bulgarian company just to buy the house, as non-EU citizens can't buy land, but they can own a company that owns land.聽

I'm no expert (I'm still in the process of trying to get my D visa!) and can't say whether a TRO or a digital nomad category b would be best for him. The new digital nomad D visa does have a category for a non-EU business owner, but the business has to do all its work online and I'm getting the feeling it's more hands on work in the UK for your friend's business.

TRO might be best in that case, provided the company is registered at Companies House and can show tax returns for the past two years.

I can see now why you addressed your first comment to Charlotte, I saw she posted offering help. You could try messaging her directly -- there's a PM option, you'll find it in the top right of the page. But I don't think she's active on the forum now, her post was years ago. There are other paid "helper" services, or immigration lawyers like Vasilev who is active on the forum, or Tanya Dimitrova in London who quite a few from the UK have used. It's not an easy process and getting paid assistance or at least an opinion might be wise.

@sammibenfell18

He'd still need to register a company is he's a TCN.

Make sure that you give him a notarised tenancy agreement specifying that he will immediately leave the property at the end/cancellation of the agreement. Get a competent Bulgarian lawyer to draft it to your requirements (friendships can sour unexpectedly and you need to protect yourself, just in case)...

@JimJ

Yes, I know all about the ways to fail to qualify to get the D visa!

How are you?

@janemulberry

Doing a pretty good impression of Chester in "Gunsmoke".. 馃��

It's going slowly: my "good" leg has been bone on bone.for a couple of years and the new extra strain has tipped it over the edge. An intramuscular combination of Metamizole and Tramadol is keeping it, and the arthritic hands, mostly under control, but it's still awkward to manage crutches and it wears off after c12 hours anyway.

Still a few "This is Bulgaria" moments: spent over an hour strapped into a CPM machine that had finished its torture cycle when the physio fogot about me and went home for the weekend; was told to practise going up and down stairs but wasn't told that the door between the ward and the staircase needed a key card to get back in; they're short-staffed at the weekend so there's no one to hear the alarm buzzer and you need to get the ward sister's personal mobile number if you need any assistance; the bathrooms in the rooms are swanky and modern, but no one thought that they might need grab rails on an orthopaedic ward...馃榿

Oh dear! I am sorry. Praying for your recovery, and for the health care you are getting to be a bit -- or a LOT! -- better.

Hello loutollhouse,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. However, this thread has been inactive for quite some time, and its participants are no longer very active on the forum, so I doubt you will receive a reply from them.

Cheers,

Cheryl

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