Catastrophic mess - FLR documents

I'm on the verge of tears right now and fear that I have made a catastrophic mess of my husband's FLR application by not keeping enough documents. His BRP expires in October so I thought I would go through all our documents we have so far when I realised I had completely forgotten to change my address in 2020 to our new address on both my bank statements and all my pay slips. I've contacted work to see.if they can fix the error and they have refused so now I am in a complete panic. We moved in a week before the covid lockdown in March 2020 and didn't know if our jobs were safe etc so kept all our post going to my mum's house and I obviously completely forgot to change it.

The documents we have:
Joint names:
Tenancy agreement 2020 - 14/03/2020
Tenancy agreement 2021 - 14/03/2021
Tenancy agreement 2022 - 28/02/2022
Rental payment statement 2020-2022
Council tax bill 2019/2020 - 07/04/2020
Council tax adjustment notice 2020/2021 - 03/06/2020
Council tax bill 2020/2021 - 07/04/2020
Council tax bill 2021/2022 - 28/02/2021
Countywide lettings deposit statement 03/2020

Husband's name:
HMRC NI number letters - 09/2020 and 01/2021
Yorkshire water utility bills - monthly statements
Legal and general pension plan - 05/2020
TV licence - annual bill
Bulb electricity - monthly
TV package - monthly (through work)
Credit card statements from 2022
Bank statements - were addressed to my parent's house but changed a few months ago

My name:
Leeds city council registered to vote - 07/2022
Leeds city council - council tax direct debit setup - 02/06/2020
British gas electricity bills - 05/2020, 07/2020, 10/2020 - husband then changed to bulb and put the bill in his name.
Admiral car insurance policy details - 2020, 2021
Petplan dog insurance policy details - 02/2022
Tesco Bank credit card statement 05/2022, 07/2022, 08/2022
American express statements - 05/2022 to present
V12 finance agreement for furniture delivered to our current address - 01/2022.

Does anyone have any advice or have I completely messed this up?

I suspect you’ll be just fine. Can you add months to the tenancy and council tax ones?

I've updated the dates on my original post. I'm just panicking because I feel like there's hardly any documents on my part to prove that I have been living here too!

I've updated the dates on my original post. I'm just panicking because I feel like there's hardly any documents on my part to prove that I have been living here too!

Perhaps I'm not understanding?  You only need 6 joint pieces of mail (or two individual documents instead of a joint piece) evenly spaced over the last 2 years. Only three sources are required.
It looks like you have more than enough there?

I think I have completely misunderstood some of the posts I read on here. I saw somewhere that someone said you needed 12 individual documents from official sources spaced out every 3 months.

So would we be fine to use the rental tenancy agreements and council tax for our joint letters and then pick 2 from our lists to include as letters addressed solely to ourselves? Would there be any issue just including all of these so we have covered all bases?

I got myself in such a state that I got in contact with an immigration lawyer. When they call me back tomorrow they are going to think I'm such a lunatic!

It’s not a catastrophic mess at all, so you can stop panicking .

You just need 1 item of mail in each name for each of the following months:

Sept 2020
Jan 2021
May 2021
Sept 2021
Jan 2022
May 2022
Sept 2022

If you don’t have something from every required month or the dates aren’t quite even, you just need to write a letter explaining why, and it should not affect the visa decision.

From what you have listed, I’d say you can use:

Sept 2020
Husband: HMRC NI number letters - 09/2020
You: British gas electricity bill - 10/2020

Jan 2021
Joint: Council tax bill 2021/2022 - 28/02/2021

May 2021
Husband: Yorkshire water utility bills - monthly statement from May 2021
You: - do you have any mail at all you can use from this month?

Sept 2021
Husband: any monthly bank statement or bill
You: - do you have any mail at all you can use from this month?

Jan 2022
Joint: Tenancy agreement 2022 - 28/02/2022

May 2022
Husband: any monthly bill from May 2022
You: Tesco Bank credit card statement 05/2022

Sept 2022
Husband: Sept 2022 bank statement or bill
You: Sept 2022 bank statement

So at the moment you’re only missing 2 documents from you, which is not really an issue in the grand scheme of things.

If you absolutely don’t have anything at all, you can just write a letter explaining why not.

Also, you’d need to explain the reason for including slightly different months than you’re supposed to.


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I think I have completely misunderstood some of the posts I read on here. I saw somewhere that someone said you needed 12 individual documents from official sources spaced out every 3 months.

It’s 6 items of mail in each name, spread evenly over 24 months… so 1 item each every 4 months.

This can be:
- 6 joint documents
Or
- 12 individual documents (6 each)
Or
- a combination of joint and individual totalling 6 in each name… for example:
5 joint and 2 individual (1 each)
4 joint and 4 individual (2 each)
3 joint and 6 individual (3 each)
2 joint and 8 individual (4 each)
1 joint and 10 individual (5 each)


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Thanks so much for your responses. You made me feel so much better about what I thought was a hopeless situation.

I've had a look through my documents again and can't find anything at all with the correct address for May 2021 or September 2021. I've found my admiral car insurance policy which is dated 29/10, would that be any use for September 2021? Does it need to be September or could we do October 2021?

Thanks so much for all your help!

Thanks so much for your responses. You made me feel so much better about what I thought was a hopeless situation.

I've had a look through my documents again and can't find anything at all with the correct address for May 2021 or September 2021. I've found my admiral car insurance policy which is dated 29/10, would that be any use for September 2021? Does it need to be September or could we do October 2021?

Thanks so much for all your help!

It's always best to have it right in the month, but if you don't have something you don't have it! I would include it, and possibly something from just before too, and if you include a short cover letter explaining that you unfortunately don't have anything for that month, but you're including this one, etc, I'm sure it'll be fine.

The alternative is - if you have a lot of other documents lying around - to see if you have a complete set starting from a different month: instead of Sep/Jan/May, you could use Oct/Feb/Jun, but looking at your list I don't think that's the case.
 
Wait for ksand24's advice though - it's always first class (but don't panic, it's going to be fine!)

Just wanted to post an update in here to say my husband got his FLR approved today so all my worrying was for nothing! He applied last week around 10pm and managed to get a biometric appointment yesterday. Thanks for everyone's help

Congratulations!

That's awesome, congratulations!