Please can you stomache one more UP question?!

Hello All,
I will be applying for my unmarried partner visa soon, just want to breif you on the plan as some things with us are a bit sketchy and see if anyone thinks I am missing anything.

I met my boyfriend when I was a student.  He is English, I am American.  After my student visa expired, I went home to finish school and we visited each other every 6 months or so.

1) Then we finished school.  He did the BUNAC thing and came to the states for three months.  We subletted a place for the summer.  No proof of that.

2) Then I did the BUNAC thing.  We lived in London with his parents for 6 months.  He has plenty of proof that he lived there.  I am trying to get my bank to send me old bank statements from when I lived there.  Otherwise, I have nothing else for London.  Would a letter from his parents plus a copy of their old mortgage etc (they have since sold the house) be OK here?

3)  We then moved to Japan.  We lived there legally with a visa for 16 months.  We both have tax certificates from there, I have a bank statment, we both have most of our pay stubs from there plus I have asked our old company to provide us with a copy of our old lease (we also rented from them) and a letter confirming we lived there at that address.

4)  This is where it gets tricky!  We then moved to Prague.  We have been here since August.  Since he is British, he has no worries here.  Our flat is in his name and we have a joint bank account.  The company I work for applied for a work permit for me ages ago but I have not recieved it yet.  Without the work permit, you cant apply for the visa.  The CR is notorious for taking ages and ages on things like this, the visa application would take at least 6 months so I wont have it and I doubt I will even recieve the work permite before I leave here in June.  Will this be a problem with the entry clearance officer as I have technically been living here on the 90 day tourist visa with my boyfriend since August?  By the time we leave here we will have lived here for 10 months.  I do have a letter from my company stating that they have applied for the work permit for me and it just hasnt arrived yet. I carry this with me when I travel in case I get asked questions leaving and entering the CR.

5)  We both have degrees, have been working as ESL teachers and have professional experience in other th ings as well.  We have both been offered summer employment at an ESL school in England begining in July.  I have the contract offer with the salary, etc.  I would then show our cv's and a letter of recommendation from our last and current employer.  We dont have much money in the bank but could possible borrow some money to move it around a bit in our accounts.

6)  We can ask either his grandmother or family friends to give us a copy of their mortagage and a letter stating that we can lived there and would have our own bedroom.

Am I missing anything?  I realize I have to go home to apply, which is MInneapolis, so I will go back to the states and drive to Chicago to apply.  I cant apply here in Prague becuase I dont legally live here at the moment.  is all this correct and OK in peoples opinions??!  I am slightly freaking out, as you can imagine....
Thanks
 

Hi Allibee,

We had an equally confusing situation with our UP application which was just approved. We submitted plane tickets and frequent flyer statements to prove that we have traveled together or traveled to be together, photos of us together from various time periods including ones with each of our sets of parents, letters and rental contracts from previous landlords, bills in each of names from the places that we lived which indicated that we had lived there together, bills in both of our names, my partners employment contracts for all of the places we lived, and bank statements. We also included copies of emails from the early part of our relationship.

Make sure you have notarized or certified translations of all documents that are not in English. I don't think that it will matter that you overstayed the 90 days in CR. I overstayed in Austria and it didn't have any bearing on my visa here in the UK.

Good luck!

thanks for that...it is a bit difficult, isnt it?  and i havent overstayed my tourist visa, but i dont "legally" live here yet either...but i want to use our time here as a big part of our living together for two years as previous places we have lived were just short term sublets ie not bills or contracts or anything like that in either of our names.  i do have loads of pictures from our travels...plane tix are long ago thrown away but maybe i can go on NWA i see if i can get my travel histroy from that?
i noticed somewhere else on this forum that someone said they had applied for this visa from within the uk whilst on the 90 day tourist visa...is that possible? i was under the impression that i had to return home "to the country where i legally live...."??
you sound like you had way more documentation than i....heres hoping it wont be an issue, god knows what people did before forums like these were around!!!

The Unmarried Partner visa is the one category that can be applied for from within the UK.  However, if the Home Office suspect that you gained entry as a tourist when you really intended to settle here, then they will refuse the UP visa on the grounds of deception at the point of entry.

Victoria