FLR(M) renewal/extension - Documents help

Hi all,

Applying to extend my husband's FLR(M) visa in a couple of weeks (BRP expiry 25/08/23).

Was hoping to confirm all of the documents required to submit? The below is what we have so far:

• Scan of his entire passport
• Scan of his BRP card
• Scan of my entire passport
• Marriage certificate
• Letters received addressed to one or both of us (covering the whole 2.5 year period - how many do we need in total? Is a joint Gas&Electric bill and one document each individually enough? How many different ones do I need to submit to cover the 2.5 years? Every 3 months?
• Tenancy agreement (re-signed a 4 month agreement til 30th September with a rolling clause following that.)
• My payslips covering last 7 months
• My bank statements covering the same 7 months showing the payments in
• P60
• Letter signed by my manager stating payslips accuracy and salary, length of employ and contract type.
• Copy of signed offer letter / employment contract (this is essentially the same for my company - basically a 2 page doc laying out the essentials for my employ including salary, work hours etc but there's a separate handbook (40~ pages) with all the intricate details - would both be needed or is just the signed letter ok?

Do I need a cover letter also? The first time we did but we were living with my parents so had to detail about the situation etc . If we do - what would it need to include?

All your help is gratefully appreciated - just some reassurance I'm not missing or forgetting anything to help alleviate the stress !

Thank you,
Craig

Hi all,

Applying to extend my husband's FLR(M) visa in a couple of weeks (BRP expiry 25/08/23).

Was hoping to confirm all of the documents required to submit? The below is what we have so far:

• Scan of his entire passport
• Scan of his BRP card
• Scan of my entire passport
• Marriage certificate
• Letters received addressed to one or both of us (covering the whole 2.5 year period - how many do we need in total? Is a joint Gas&Electric bill and one document each individually enough? How many different ones do I need to submit to cover the 2.5 years? Every 3 months?
• Tenancy agreement (re-signed a 4 month agreement til 30th September with a rolling clause following that.)
• My payslips covering last 7 months
• My bank statements covering the same 7 months showing the payments in
• P60
• Letter signed by my manager stating payslips accuracy and salary, length of employ and contract type.
• Copy of signed offer letter / employment contract (this is essentially the same for my company - basically a 2 page doc laying out the essentials for my employ including salary, work hours etc but there's a separate handbook (40~ pages) with all the intricate details - would both be needed or is just the signed letter ok?

Do I need a cover letter also? The first time we did but we were living with my parents so had to detail about the situation etc . If we do - what would it need to include?

All your help is gratefully appreciated - just some reassurance I'm not missing or forgetting anything to help alleviate the stress !

Thank you,
Craig

You'll need a council tax bill too.
The mail for FLR is over 2 years. You need 6 x one joint piece or 2 individual pieces spread over the whole time frame. Every 4 months means you need 7 joint equivalent pieces but works out very neatly.
You need at least 3 different sources, you can have more than 3 but not less.

Thank you for the reply!

Will add the council tax bill to the list - thanks!

When you say -

You need at least 3 different sources, you can have more than 3 but not less.

Would that mean 3 different sources per month, every 4 months (7 total) = 21 total documents?

So would the below be enough (per month x 7 across 2 years):
1 x gas/elec - both names
1 x telephone bill - husbands name
1 x credit card bill - my name

or do we need 3 per person each month?

Sorry feel like that is clumsiest way of explaining that but just trying to get my head around it!

Thanks

Thank you for the reply!

Will add the council tax bill to the list - thanks!

When you say -
Would that mean 3 different sources per month, every 4 months (7 total) = 21 total documents?

So would the below be enough (per month x 7 across 2 years):
1 x gas/elec - both names
1 x telephone bill - husbands name
1 x credit card bill - my name

or do we need 3 per person each month?

Sorry feel like that is clumsiest way of explaining that but just trying to get my head around it!

Thanks

No, the amount is as I explained. Three sources are over the whole period. So you could have one gas bill, one  insurance bill and all the rest bank statements, for example.

When you say -
Would that mean 3 different sources per month, every 4 months (7 total) = 21 total documents?

No, that's 3 different sources in total, spread across both names and 2 years. You still only need 7 items in total in each name.

- If you're using jointly-addressed items, you need 7 items in total across 2 years
- If you are using individually-addressed items, you need 14 items in total (1 each for every required month) across 2 years
- if you are using a mixture of both joint and individual, you need to have 7 in each name (i.e. 5 joint and 2 individual, or 3 joint and 8 individual etc.) across 2 years

So, you might have:

July 2021
1. Joint bank statement (Source 1)

November 2021
3. Joint bank statement

March 2022
3. Joint council tax bill (Source 2)

July 2021
4. Joint bank statement

November 2021
5. Joint gas bill (Source 3)

March 2022
6. Joint council tax bill

July 2023
7. Joint bank statement

Thank you so much for clarification - I was definitely over-complicating it in my head and would have ended up sending 100s of documents unnecessarily!

Just a couple of other clarifications if that's ok:

Do you think the 2-page signed offer letter is enough to cover the employment contract ? it does state the salary etc just not the ins and outs of the company policies.

And what would be needed in a cover letter (if one is necessary)? Just an overview or is there specific things requiring explanation?

thanks
Craig

Do you think the 2-page signed offer letter is enough to cover the employment contract ? it does state the salary etc just not the ins and outs of the company policies.

The job contract is not a mandatory document, we just recommend include the contract and P60 because they can sometimes ask to see it (so it saves some time providing it later on)... but if you don't have your job contract available, then don't worry about it. You don't need to include the job offer letter.

And what would be needed in a cover letter (if one is necessary)? Just an overview or is there specific things requiring explanation?

You don't need to include a cover letter unless there's anything in particular that requires an explanation... for example,  previous visa refusals/entry to the UK, criminal convictions, you are unable to provide 7 items of correspondence in each name, or they are not evenly-spaced every 4 months etc.

Thank you!

So just two final things for clarification:

Firstly- my husband's BRP was issued on 04/03/2021 and is valid until 25/08/2023 - what date is the earliest we can apply without causing issue? 29/07/2023?

My other concern is for the payslips - my next one would arrive on the Monday 31/07 so I was planning to use the one dated Friday 30/06 (and the 6 preceding it) as my evidence - or is that too old? Would it be safer to wait and submit the following week with the payslip dated 31/07 (and letter to reflect that)?

Thanks once again

Craig

Firstly- my husband's BRP was issued on 04/03/2021 and is valid until 25/08/2023 - what date is the earliest we can apply without causing issue? 29/07/2023?

I see from your previous posts that he came to the UK on a fiance visa. In that case, the earliest date he can apply is 28 days before his BRP expires... which will be 28th July 2023.

My other concern is for the payslips - my next one would arrive on the Monday 31/07 so I was planning to use the one dated Friday 30/06 (and the 6 preceding it) as my evidence - or is that too old? Would it be safer to wait and submit the following week with the payslip dated 31/07 (and letter to reflect that)?

The most recent payslip, bank statement and the employer letter must be dated no more than 28 days before the date you submit the online application.

But if you use the one dated 30/06, then the absolute latest date you can apply is 28th July... however that is also the absolute earliest date you can apply... which literally only gives you a 24-hour window in which to submit the application!

This is not ideal, especially if you are planning to use Super Priority processing, as those slots are only released at 1am each night, which then gives you only a 1-hour window to apply (the earliest you could submit would be midnight and the latest would be 1am) - however, the Super Priority slots sell out almost immediately and you may have to spend a few nights trying before you snag one, but you wouldn't have that option as you would have to get the application submitted by 11:59pm on July 28th.

My advice would be to wait until you have the 31/07 payslip and the corresponding bank statement, and then apply between 1st and 25th August, which gives you a 25-day window to apply (rather than either 1 hour or 24 hours).

Hi,

Just one other thing - I've realised we haven't received a paper council tax bill this year so it must have switched to paperless automatically (or gotten lost). Is this an issue?

We have the March 2022 one to include in our 3 x sources across the 2 years but wasn't sure if we'd encounter an issue without the most recent one?

thanks

Hi- sorry just wanted to bump this as we are planning to complete the application tonight/tomorrow but didn't want to if I am going to need to wait for the council to send a new bill for 2023 ?

They will want to see the most recent one.

Ok but if we haven't received one via the post how do we fulfill this requirement?
 Do I need to find a way to request one be sent to us now and hold off the application? Or can an online download cover it as we've got multiple other proofs of address ?

Ok but if we haven't received one via the post how do we fulfill this requirement?
 Do I need to find a way to request one be sent to us now and hold off the application? Or can an online download cover it as we've got multiple other proofs of address ?

If you are not using it as one of your items of correspondence, then a downloaded copy should be fine.


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We have our March 2022 bill as our joint correspondence for that month - though we can swap it out if needed as we have 3 others each across the 2 years (Joint Gas/Electric, 2 x different credit cards bills for me and phone bill and bank account statement for my husband).

I have called the council and requested both an email copy and a new paper copy so hopefully that will come through.

On the subject of other correspondence - my husbands bank account statement is for his US Wells Fargo account - that isn't an issue is it?