Connect records to actual positions and the applicable full-time standard. Separate part-time jobs cannot simply be combined into a qualifying full-time position.
Distinguish positions from totals
Direct full-time employment generally requires at least 35 hours weekly. Genuine job sharing needs an appropriate position-based account rather than arithmetic across unrelated jobs.
Source-of-funds documentation is the other underestimated item: assembling years of corporate records, obtaining a defensible valuation, reconciling accounts and preparing a coherent written explanation is professional work measured in weeks, not hours. Where funds come from employment income accumulated over many years, the natural evidence is the employment itself: contracts or letters covering the period, pay records, and personal tax filings for the relevant years showing income consistent with the savings claimed. Bills of sale for each machine, the assignment of the timber contracts, corporate resolutions authorising the wind-up, tax returns reporting the gain, payout statements from equipment lenders, and bank records showing every account the money passed through. Expect years of financial statements and tax filings, the share or asset purchase agreement, the closing statement, evidence of what was actually received against what is still owed under the note, and bank records for every account the proceeds touched.