ILR Documents Concern

Hello everyone.  I've been looking into what I need to do/gather together for my ILR application in October 2007 and am a bit concerned. 

I've been in the UK on my spousal visa now since the end of October 2005.  I've been filing all utility bills, council tax bills, bank statements, etc. to use for the application.  While I should have no problem supplying the number of documents required when the time comes, I don't have anything official in my name before February.    Does anyone know if this will be a problem?  If so, what can I do about it?

Thanks for any advice

Jenn

Why do you have nothing from February?  This might help work out what to do about it.

Victoria

Sorry, let me clarify. 

When I moved here at the end of October, my husband and I were staying at his grandmother's house.  We moved into our own apartment at the end of February, so starting from that date I have things like the lease agreement, bills, etc. in my name.  The only 'official' document I have from before our move is dated 8/2 from the council readjusting our tax starting from 27/1 when I called to get my name added so I could open a bank account.

Hope that helps.

The council tax document is probably the most useful document you could have - this is a real bonus!  Did you not register with a doctor until after October, or apply for jobs, or have any informal documents (even letters from friends where you have kept the envelope)?  In the absence of any more 'official' stuff, this will all help.

Victoria

If I do have anything like that it's been lost/misplaced since the move so I'm going to say no I don't.  As far as registering with doctors and for jobs, everything was kind of put on hold when I found out my Mom was ill and had to undergo surgery, for which I returned to the States for two weeks in December -- not that I expect the IND to care about that, but...  I guess I'll have to keep digging and hopefully something will turn up.  Thanks for your help, Victoria.

Actually....you'll be surprised how nice the Home Office can be sometimes.  If you don't have documents for the first five months, they will want to know why, and if you have a good reason, which you obviously do, then they are highly likely to give you the benefit of the doubt, so do tell them.

Best of luck.

Victoria

Can someone provide clarification on which part(s) of the two years are supposed to be covered in the documents?

I know I need to provide documents from each of the two years, but for which month?

For example, I got my FLR in June 2005.

For the period of June 2005-June 2006, I worked from July 2005 and am still working.

When it comes to payslips, do I supply, my first payslip for that year, my last payslip, every payslip I received that year, or what?

I got a joint bank account with my husband when I moved over in April. Do I supply our first statement of the year, all 12 of our monthly statements, just a few statements scattered throughout the year, etc?

The same goes for all other periodic statements - such as from credit cards, IRAs, utility bills, etc. 

If I supply every single statement I've received from every source, rather than one to a few a year from each source, I'm going to have to supply an awful lot of paper.

I think I heard somewhere its 10 (differant) documents per year

I think I heard somewhere its 10 (differant) documents per year

Yes, I understand about the different documents, e.g.

1. payslips
2. bank account statements
3. gas bills
4. letters from NHS

etc.

But the OP was concerned about missing documents from particular months.

Does this mean that I have to supply documents for every single month, i.e. bank statements from Jan, Feb, March, April, etc. then payslips from Jan, Feb, Mar ..... ?

So closer to 120 documents than 10 documents?

What I'm doing and I'm hoping this is ok is
First year- Council tax (both our names),electric,gas,water bills.bank statements (both names),paystubs (his name)
delivery reciepts from Argos,Dales end of year tax collected stubfrom his work, and other small bits and pieces
the next years,have the same things

Sweetpeach, I got sent home the first time, so the second time I went back with documents for every month and they put me through no problems. Take it all, baby!