Eligibility in the VA’s VetBiz Program is valid for 3 years from the date of your verification approval letter. The VetBiz VIP system will send out emails starting at 150 days prior to your expiration. They will continue sending you reminders every 30 days until your renewal is submitted or your verification expires.
Below are 3 VetBiz Certification issues that we see on a regular basis. If you can avoid these three issues, your VA VetBiz application will go through the verification process much faster and with a positive outcome.
1. Full-time Devotion to the Applicant Concern
The 51% Veteran or Service-Disabled Veteran owner(s) should devote full time to the applicant concern during normal operating hours of similar businesses. In addition, the veteran owners should not have any other outside employment that could take away from their day-to-day management of the applicant firm. Make sure resumes and LinkedIn profiles are up to date with current positions and previous employment has ended. Any Veterans with outside employment will face many questions from the CVE which will most likely end in denial.
Pick up the phone. Speak to the actual person who will be preparing your application.
You should be able to call and speak directly to the individual who will be responsible for preparing your application. At Cloveer, you can call and speak to the employee who will be responsible for preparing your application. They will answer any of your questions and let you know whether or not you are eligible to become certified into one of these programs at no cost.
Hiring a reputable consultant to assist in the preparation of your 8(a), Hubzone or VetBiz Application can be very important. Here’s a recent fact: Most self prepared 8(a) Applications are rejected outright or sent back multiple times for deficiencies or inconsistencies. In fact “Only 2 out every 10 self prepared 8(a) Applications are approved by the SBA“.
