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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2018, 08:30:28 PM »
We don't have our boarding passes anymore. Thrown away. What about stamps in the passports?

Best thing to provide instead is your e-tickets from the flight bookings. You likely will only be providing a photocopy of the photo page of his passport (it's not recommended to send HIS actual passport, only yours), so they won't be able to see any of his stamps.



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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2018, 08:30:58 PM »

Do you still have your email itineraries?


I'll have to go back through and look to see what I can find. I travel on standby passes on Delta airlines. My mom is retired from Delta. So I do have record of my trips in their system. We will have to look a little deeper for my fiance's trips however... I'm sure we'll figure it out.  ;)
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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2018, 08:34:03 PM »
we've got tons and tons of hours of skype calls and whatsapp convos. And a million pictures together by now. LOL! I hope that's good enough!  :D

You only need 2 photos maximum - I would go with one near the beginning of your relationship and one from the wedding.

You don't want to send more than 2 pages of Skype call logs and 2 pages of WhatApp messages (no content, just dates and times). So, if you have been together about 2 years, I would provide the following:
- 2 Skype calls per month (date, name and length of call only)
- 2 WhatsApp messages per month (name and date only, no conversation)

Having said that, you only need to provide calls/messages for the times you have been apart, so if you have spent a fair amount of time together, you don't need to cover those periods with calls/messages.


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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2018, 08:35:48 PM »

Best thing to provide instead is your e-tickets from the flight bookings. You likely will only be providing a photocopy of the photo page of his passport (it's not recommended to send HIS actual passport, only yours), so they won't be able to see any of his stamps.


Will definitely have to search for those for him. I'm not sure that we have any of those old itineraries. I don't get "real" tickets but I fly on passes from my mom being a retired Delta airlines employee. I can pull up all my travel dates in their system however. Hopefully that will be acceptable.
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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2018, 08:36:23 PM »
I'll have to go back through and look to see what I can find. I travel on standby passes on Delta airlines. My mom is retired from Delta. So I do have record of my trips in their system. We will have to look a little deeper for my fiance's trips however... I'm sure we'll figure it out.  ;)

I'm sure you'll work it out :).

The main thing you'll find over the next few years of visas is that you need to save EVERYTHING :P. Once you're in the UK, you'll need to get your name on as many official items of mail as possible, turn OFF paperless for everything, and save ALL your mail... as for the next visas after 2.5 years and 5 years, you'll need to prove co-habitation by way of mail showing you both live at the same address as each other, covering the length of your visa.


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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2018, 08:38:23 PM »
You only need 2 photos maximum - I would go with one near the beginning of your relationship and one from the wedding.
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Having said that, you only need to provide calls/messages for the times you have been apart, so if you have spent a fair amount of time together, you don't need to cover those periods with calls/messages.

So basically just a summary/log of how we've passed the time together between calls, skype, messages, and physical time together then. Just documenting that the relationship has been ongoing for the amount of time that we have stated?
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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2018, 08:43:16 PM »
So basically just a summary/log of how we've passed the time together between calls, skype, messages, and physical time together then. Just documenting that the relationship has been ongoing for the amount of time that we have stated?

Yeah, pretty much - they just need to see that you have been in regular communication with each other during the time you have been apart. UKVI don't need to know what you talk about, just that you talk regularly.

Think of it like providing an old, itemised phone bill (before the internet) - you're only issued with a list of the calls, the number called and the length of the call. You don't get an accompanying recording of the conversation.

They are trying to weed out sham/forced marriages, where the couple is married, but there's no evidence of any communication between them before or after the wedding, and there's no evidence of spending any time together apart from the wedding.


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Re: Question about marrying in UK...
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2018, 08:46:53 PM »
Yeah, pretty much - they just need to see that you have been in regular communication with each other during the time you have been apart. UKVI don't need to know what you talk about, just that you talk regularly.

Think of it like providing an old, itemised phone bill (before the internet) - you're only issued with a list of the calls, the number called and the length of the call. You don't get an accompanying recording of the conversation.

They are trying to weed out sham/forced marriages, where the couple is married, but there's no evidence of any communication between them before or after the wedding, and there's no evidence of spending any time together apart from the wedding.

Got it! Well, we certainly have plenty of calls, messages, and skypes to attest for our love! Phew! LOL! Thank you so much for the help!
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