Quote Originally Posted by rainmaker View Post
all you have to submit to the home office for settlement visa is the title of your property, saying you have a 4 bedroom house.you need not state that persons living in your house. you would be fine
I guess he's just gotta ask himself if there's any way the ECO would find out about his true situation? Like the money going into his account from his lodger etc . . . if there's some way that it's not obvious that extra money's going into the account, then I think what rainmaker suggested should be OK. (in my non-legally trained opinion)