- A letter from relatives or friends confirming I or my partner lived with them for some or all of the 2 year period:
When we first moved in together there wasn't anyone living with us, do I just provide my rental contract for that period?
We moved out after a year and stayed at our friend's place for about 6 months, do I get my friend to confirmed that me and my husband stayed with her during that period? Is there any special template to use?
Now we bought an apartment, so the mortgage agreement should do the job to prove that we live together now.
You do not need to provide your past tenancy agreement (unless you are using it as one of your 6 correspondence documents)..
For the accommodation requirement, you provide:
- your current Land Registry Document
- latest mortgage statement
- council tax bill from your apartment
For the correspondence you provide:
- your 6 items of correspondence spread over 2 years showing you have been living together
- a letter from your friend confirming the dates you lived with them (no set template, just a short letter).
This actually worries me because during that period when we stayed at our friend's, we were in the process of buying our apartment. We didn't see the need of putting our joint name under the utility bill, I only put mine under that. We only changed the address of our bank statement and the mortgage agreement was addressed to both of us.
Having said that, will a utility bill address to my name and the mortgage agreement addressed to both of us be sufficient enough?
This is why you provide a letter from your friend confirming you lived with them... because while living with friends or family, you may not have enough correspondence in both your names for that period.
If you are applying soon, you will want to provide documents from the following months:
Jan 2018
May 2018
Sept 2018
Jan 2019
May 2019
Sept 2019
Optional extra: Jan 2020.
So, depending on which of the above month(s) you lived with your friend, you want to provide a document in each name for those months.
- Payslips covering a period of 6 months: Will it be a problem if my husband's company pay him weekly? I have his weekly payslip covering over 6 months, and he is on a full time contract with his pay over the annual income limit.
Nope, whether he is paid weekly, fortnightly or monthly is irrelevant. What's important is that the payslips you provide cover an entire 6 months and not a day less.
So for someone paid monthly, this normally means sending 7 payslips (7 months). If he is paid weekly, he will probably need around 25 or 26 payslips depending on the dates they cover.
- Any relevant declarations or third party consent to request verification checks: What does this mean?
There are various declarations which must be signed as part of the application:
- Applicant declaration
- Sponsor declaration
- Third party consent declaration... this is signed by anyone who is named on any of the documents you are submitting (like bills, bank statements etc.), giving UKVI permission to carry out verification checks on those documents.
For example, if you and your spouse are submitting bills/statements in joint names, he signs this one too. Also, if the friend you lived with is named on any bills you are submitting, she needs to sign it as well.
- Evidence of my husband's immigration status in the UK - He is British so I'm guessing his birth certificate will suffice?
No, you scan and submit his current valid passport (every page). He would only provide his birth certificate if he does not hold a valid UK passport.
