i]February 2019[/i]
Is the Hammersmith & Fulham council tax bill on March 1st 2019 (Joint) not close enough for this?
Unfortunately not, because your October 2018 statement is dated October 2nd... which means you would then have a 5-month gap between October 2018 and March 2019 and not the required 4-month gap.
Unless you have anything from the end of October 2018 you can use for that month instead? Meaning that end Oct to early Mar would only be a couple of days more than 4 months.
The only other correspondence we have near February 2019 is a letter for the applicant from the NHS on 9th January 2019, but we don't have any correspondence addressed to the sponsor around this time.
Unfortunately, this would only be a 3-month gap since October 2nd, so again, it wouldn't be suitable.
June 2019
Fortunately I've found a letter to the applicant from the Disclosure & Barring Service on 15th June 2019. I've also found a letter to the sponsor (myself) from Nationwide Building Society, but the date just says "June 2019" - is that good enough?
Yes, that's fine
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October 2020
We don't have any correspondence for this month. As this is the month that we are currently in, I'm looking into whether there are any letters or bills that we can request.
It's not an absolute requirement to provide anything from the month you are applying in, as that one is an extra document, so if you don't have anything, it's not a massive issue. Alternatively, if you have any mail from the end of September, you can use that instead.
I would try your best to get documents from each of the required months: Feb, June and Oct of each year, but if you can't provide them all, it's not the end of the world. You just need to write an explanation for why you have not been able to provide them all.
We always advise that as soon as the visa applicant arrives in the UK, you do the following:
- change all your mail to paperless, so that everything is delivered to your house in the post
- add the applicant to as many bills as possible (electricity, gas, water, phone, internet, council tax etc.)
- save ALL your mail every single month
That way, by the time it comes to your FLR(M) and ILR applications, you will have tons and tons of mail to choose from, ideally from every single month of the 30 months, and so it's just a case of picking and choosing which document(s) you want to use for each month... which also gives you flexibility for which set of months you can use.
The easiest documents to get monthly in the mail are bank statements, so if you don't currently receive monthly statements in the mail, I would change that ASAP so that going forward for ILR in 2.5 years, you will have mail delivered every single month.
For future planning:
For ILR, you need to cover the whole 2.5 years of the FLR(M) visa, so that means providing 1 document in each name, spaced every 5 months, from 3 different sources.
