Can someone please clarify before my wife has heart failure!

Right Tracey and I have been collecting things for her ILR app. We went on the assumption of 10 thing for each of us over the last 2 years.  5 per person per year right? But now having read the ILR denied thing she is terrified that we have it wrong and we need 40 things and we are doomed blah blah. Can someone please help with this and let us no how many things they actually require. Is there a number she can call and speak to someone there so we know that we are sending the correct amount. I have a very scared wife and no way of calming her at the moment. Any help fast would be most appreciated.
Thanks, Bernie

ok you are SO cute!!!!!

I believe those 10 items should be spread out between being addressed to her separately, you separatly and together AND span different months....

So all that for 2 years, so 20 pieces.  That's how we're doing it and thats how i read it to be!

we have no post addressed to us jointly.. I was operating to the standard of 5 things in her name for 2005 and 5 for 2006 and the same for me. the psots i have read indicate that people all send different amounts. this is so confusing and there is our whole life riding on it so we can't afford to get it wrong. Can someone who has actually gone through this and come out the other end please throw me a line as to whether we are getting this right. the immigration office seems almost impossible to reach and we have just over a week to sort this and send the app. thanks so much!

At least 10 items each, from at least 5 different sources, and spready evenly throughout the 24 months...it's all on the form!

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/6353/11406/formsetm0606.pdf


Vicky

For those who don't want to read the PDF.

So ideally it is 20 items spread over 24 months with both your names on it.  This is an aggregate, total.  The items should be made up of joint names, otherwise they need to be made up of evenly separate names with the same address.

We need documentary evidence indicating that you and your partner are still living together as a couple and have done so during the past two years. Ideally, this evidence should indicate joint commitments in your finances, other responsibilities and social activities spread across the past 2 years/ 24 months.

Items of correspondence or other documentary evidence from sources of the kind listed below would be acceptable. These should be divided fairly equally between each of the two years, and be addressed jointly in both your names wherever possible. If you do not have any or enough in your joint names, items addressed to each of you individually may be acceptable, provided they show the same address and you provide roughly the same number of items in each of your names.

The items of evidence should be from at least 5 different official sources. Ideally, a total of 20 items of evidence should be provided.

If you are not able to do that, please provide at least 10 items.

Please give an explanation if you cannot provide at least 10 items and/or if the evidence is not in your joint names and/or it is not spread over the 24 month period as indicated. An explanation must also be provided for any periods when you did not live together, as well as evidence in support of the explanation and evidence to show how you maintained contact with each other during this time.

Your application could be delayed or even refused if you do not provide enough evidence of this kind.

• telephone bills or statements
• gas bills or statements
• electricity bills or statements
• water rates bills or statements
• council tax bills or statements
• mortgage statements or agreement
• bank or building society statements/passbooks
• tenancy agreement
• insurance policies/certificates or other correspondence
• loan agreements
• AA, RAC or similar membership
• membership of sports or social clubs
• membership of a religious organisation
• correspondence from government departments or agencies (eg HM Revenue and Customs, Inland Revenue, Department for Work and Pensions) including evidence that you have declared your relationship to the appropriate government bodies.
• correspondence from GP or local health authority (eg: NHS card, correspondence about ante-natal and post-natal treatment, letter confirming dates of visits to the home address by a midwife, letter confirming registration with a dentist, etc - providing these documents show your home address and the date first registered)