Document check for a fiancee visa please?

Hello everyone. We've been slowly getting documents together for me to send to my fiancee (Snowdonia) for her to get her fiancee visa. I wonder if you'd please give my list of documents the once-over and let me know if there's anything missing.

• Official copy of my birth certificate (March 2012)
• Mortgage statement (Oct 2012)
• Six salary letters (June 2012 to Nov 2012)
• Six bank statements (June 2012 to Nov 2012)
• A bankers reference (Nov 2012)
• A letter from my employer (Sep 2012)
• Copies of two pages from my passort, made by a solicitor (July 2012)

The two pages from my passport are the only ones with stamps in them and include the photo and ID page. The copies were made and signed by a solicitor.

I think all that's missing is my personal letter. Does anyone please have a good model letter for a financee-visa-sponsor that I can work from?

Also, she's a little worried that it will look bad that she left her job shortly after Christmas a year ago and has been living off her savings since then. I'm sure this shouldn't be a problem because I'm the one sponsoring her application.

Many thanks, Snowdon.

You don't need to send your birth certificate if you are sending a copy of your passport page. I would also include a P60. I've seen instances of officers asking for it.

Also, she's a little worried that it will look bad that she left her job shortly after Christmas a year ago and has been living off her savings since then. I'm sure this shouldn't be a problem because I'm the one sponsoring her application.

When I applied for the visa, I hadn't worked in nearly a year... and that job was just for the summer.    I travelled for two years before that, so no working at all in over three years besides that summer.  They didn't seem to mind I'd been living off my savings. 

My biggest concern is that having lived off of it for a year, it's pretty much gone.  So if they do look at my finances, it's not going to come close to meeting their standards.  My fiancee however, well exceeds it.  Unfortunately, my salary was adequate to meet my needs (mortgage, etc...) but didn't leave much room for savings.

Also, I'm selling my home to a relative rent/lease to own so it will remain in my name until they pay it off.  Do I need to provide documentation on that?  It's not going to provide me any income, they're basically assuming the payoff on the loan.  The market in my area isn't such that I could find a buyer to buy it outright.

Thanks to everyone for your insight and advise!  This is a nerve-wracking process.

My biggest concern is that having lived off of it for a year, it's pretty much gone.  So if they do look at my finances, it's not going to come close to meeting their standards.  My fiancee however, well exceeds it.  Unfortunately, my salary was adequate to meet my needs (mortgage, etc...) but didn't leave much room for savings.

They will not consider your income at all for the visa - they make a decision based solely on the UK citizen's income and under the new rules they are not allowed to include your income, so it's really not going to matter in the slightest.

Unless you have savings of £16,000 or more in your bank account that you will be contributing to the application, or you have other non-employment income (such as rent from a property you own, investments, etc.), your finances will not be looked at.

Also, I'm selling my home to a relative rent/lease to own so it will remain in my name until they pay it off.  Do I need to provide documentation on that?  It's not going to provide me any income, they're basically assuming the payoff on the loan.  The market in my area isn't such that I could find a buyer to buy it outright.

Unless you will be getting income from renting it out, or you have already sold the house and the money is in your bank account and available as liquid cash funds on the day you apply online, it will be irrelevant to the application - so you don't need to provide any documents.

What you need to prove for the visa is that:

a) Your husband's UK salary meets the income requirements
and
b) You have somewhere to live together in the UK when you move

It's about proving how you will live in the UK after your visa has been granted, not how you used to live in the US.

So, they don't care whether or not you have been working in the US, or what you have been living on for the last few months, or whether you own property in the US. They just care about how your husband will support and accommodate you in the UK after you move - they need to make sure that you will not be a burden to UK society and that you will have no reason to try to illegally work or claim UK public funds while on your fiance visa.

Thank you so much for 1he reply!!!  I'm feeling better already.

My fiance will be sending me the funds to cover the cost of the application and the fee to expedite.  Should we disclose that in the letter?  I seem to recall that being an issue from someone a while back.