FLR M - getting ready for this :-)

That's good .

You already have enough sources, so if you can use mailed bank statements to fill in the gaps, you'll be all sorted .

I think I was so caught up making sure we have mail for both of us from the day she arrived, I didn’t think it had to be spaced out as from June 2018 to June 2020! As she’s got things like national insurance letters, NHS registration etc from March 2018!


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I think I was so caught up making sure we have mail for both of us from the day she arrived, I didn’t think it had to be spaced out as from June 2018 to June 2020! As she’s got things like national insurance letters, NHS registration etc from March 2018!


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Well, it's good to save everything, just in case, because you never know if they will change the rules, but at the moment, the requirements for the correspondence are as follows:

FLR(M)
- 6 documents in each name
- from at least 3 difference sources
- spread evenly over the time you've lived together, up to a maximum of 2 years (counting back from the FLR(M) application date)
... so that's 1 document each every 4 months (24 months/6 documents = 1 every 4 months)

ILR
- 6 documents in each name
- from at least 3 difference source
- spread evenly over the time since your last visa was granted.... which means you will cover 2.5 years, not 2 years.
... so that's 1 document each every 5 months (30 months/6 documents = 1 every 5 months)

Well, it's good to save everything, just in case, because you never know if they will change the rules, but at the moment, the requirements for the correspondence are as follows:

FLR(M)
- 6 documents in each name
- from at least 3 difference sources
- spread evenly over the time you've lived together, up to a maximum of 2 years (counting back from the FLR(M) application date)
... so that's 1 document each every 4 months (24 months/6 documents = 1 every 4 months)

ILR
- 6 documents in each name
- from at least 3 difference source
- spread evenly over the time since your last visa was granted.... which means you will cover 2.5 years, not 2 years.
... so that's 1 document each every 5 months (30 months/6 documents = 1 every 5 months)

Thanks for the ILR specifics!
Just turned on paper statements now for SKY TV and other utility bills and reminded my wife to also turn them on for her bank and credit card statements.

We had an interesting conversation yesterday, maybe you can share some light on the subject. When an applicant receives ILR, do they need to wait for 12 months before applying for citizenship or is that requirement negated because I (partner of the applicant) is a British Citizen?


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Thanks for the ILR specifics!
Just turned on paper statements now for SKY TV and other utility bills and reminded my wife to also turn them on for her bank and credit card statements.

We had an interesting conversation yesterday, maybe you can share some light on the subject. When an applicant receives ILR, do they need to wait for 12 months before applying for citizenship or is that requirement negated because I (partner of the applicant) is a British Citizen?


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If married to a British citizen, they can apply right away after ILR is obtained.

We had an interesting conversation yesterday, maybe you can share some light on the subject. When an applicant receives ILR, do they need to wait for 12 months before applying for citizenship or is that requirement negated because I (partner of the applicant) is a British Citizen?

- If you are married to a UK citizen, you can apply for citizenship immediately after receiving ILR and do not have to wait 12 months.

- If you are NOT married to a UK citizen, you have to hold ILR for 12 months before you can apply for citizenship.

The citizenship residency requirements are:

If you are married to a UK citizen:
- you must hold ILR
- you must have been in the UK exact 3 years prior to your citizenship application date (i.e. if you apply on 1st Jan 2020, you must have been inside the UK on 1st Jan 2017)
- you cannot have been outside the UK for more than 270 days in the last 3 years
- no more than 90 of those days can have been in the last 12 months before applying

If you are NOT married to a UK citizen:
- you must have held ILR for at least 12 months
- you must have been in the UK exact 5 years prior to your citizenship application date (i.e. if you apply on 1st Jan 2020, you must have been inside the UK on 1st Jan 2015)
- you cannot have been outside the UK for more than 450 days in the last 5 years
- no more than 90 of those days can have been in the last 12 months before applying

When calculating the days outside the UK, you do NOT count the day you left or the day you returned to the UK, as you were physically inside the UK for part of those days... so, if you left on Monday and returned on Friday, that only counts as 3 days outside the UK - Tue, Wed and Thu.