Preparing for my husbands spouse visa

Things are never easy.

So, I requested the accommodation from my letting agent, they have written in the letter "I can confirm that the landlord has agreed for ----- to join the tenancy with ----, subject to referencing, credit check, right to rent check etc."

Now I don't know what to do, I don't know how my husband is supposed to pass these checks when for the last 4 years he has been unemployed and living with his family, when he comes to the UK I'm pretty sure that means he'll start with 0 credit and obviously when he gets to the UK it could be a couple of months before he finds work.

Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this?

Your letter is fine for the visa - that’s standard wording from a letting agent.

The landlord can’t do any credit checks until after he has the visa and is living in the UK, so I wouldn’t worry about that just yet.

The important thing for the visa is having the letter that says he can move in once he is in the UK.

You can cross the credit check bridge when you come to it after the visa has been issued, though I haven’t heard of anyone else having issues with getting on the tenancy before.


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I thought the letter would be fine, I'm worried about the unknown aspect of once he's here, although I suppose if his references come back bad my parents could be his guarantor or something.

I've asked my letting agent about this several times for the past 6 months and they've never given me a nice detail explanation.

I thought the letter would be fine, I'm worried about the unknown aspect of once he's here, although I suppose if his references come back bad my parents could be his guarantor or something.

I've asked my letting agent about this several times for the past 6 months and they've never given me a nice detail explanation.

I wouldn’t worry about it... they might not even bother with credit and reference checks anyway - it may just be something they have to write in the letter as standard.

Worst case scenarios:
1. You get permission from them for him to live there without officially putting him on the tenancy
Or
2. He might have to pay a deposit or something (if you were both just moving to the U.K. and had no credit, they would normally ask for 6 months rent upfront). But as you are already living there and paying the rent, they might not even need to do that.


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I'll have our checklist to post soon, we are a couple of weeks away from submitting the application so we are getting close.

Can you please read over the letter my employer has drafted and check that it's appropriate.

"To the Entry Clearance Officer,
 
Re: Employment

I am writing to confirm that Kerry --- is employed as a Marketing and Communications Assistant at -----, on a permanent, full-time contract.

She started her employment with us on 6th November 2017, earning an annual salary of £18208. She was awarded a pay rise, bring her salary to £18888, on 1st August 2018. This payment was reflected on her October 2018 payslip and was backdated to 1st August 2018. An annual pay increase of 0.5% was awarded on 1st August 2018, this payment was reflected on her April 2019 payslip and was backdated to 1st August 2018.
 
I can confirm that the following payslips provided with the visa application are authentic and correct as follows:
Date of payslip                Pay period covered                     Gross monthly salary   Date deposited into the account
24th October 2018        1st – 31st October 2018      £1,687.32                           24th October 2018
23rd November 2018        1st – 30th November 2018      £1,595.70                           23rd November 2018
20th December 2018        1st – 31st December 2018      £1,574.00                           20th December 2018
24th January 2019        1st – 31st January 2018      £1,574.00                           24th January 2019
22nd February 2019        1st – 38th February 2018      £1,574.00                           22nd February 2019
22nd March 2019        1st – 31st March 2018              £1,574.00                           22nd March 2019
24th April 2019                1st – 30th April 2018                                                      24th April 2019

Please contact me on ---- or ------ if you have any questions.

Kind Regards"

Hey all, here is our checklist - we are still working on collecting the items in bold or it's something i'd like looked at, let me know if i've missed something.

Applicant Documents:
- Stamped Biometrics confirmation receipt
- IHS payment receipt
- Printed, signed online application form
- Printed VAF4A Appendix 2 form
- Reutrn shipping label
- Passports (old and current)
- Passport photos
- Entry refusal paperwork
- Cover letter

Sponsor Documents:
- Certified copy of passport photo page - dated 11th April (he's not submitting his visa till early May, i couldn't remember if this needed to be within the 28 days - if so I'll have to get it done again later)
- Sponsor letter

Financial evidence:
- Bank statements (7 months worth to cover payslips) (the statements will cover 3rd September 2018 to either 25th/26th April 2019)
- Letter from employer (just waiting on my last payslip)
- Employment contract
- Payslips (October-April) (just waiting on the last one)

Accommodation Evidence:
- Tenancy Agreement
- Letter from Glyn Jones/Landlord

Relationship evidence:
- Marriage certificate (put onto A4)
- 2 photos - beginning of relationship and wedding
- etickets/boarding passes for 2015-2018 (3 trips worth)
- chat logs: (skype delete A LOT of our chat history so we only have a small amount from 5 years of conversation)
                  -Facebook: covers Dec 8th 2013-Jul 19th 2018
                  -Skype: covers March 9th 2017-October 4th 2017 and October 31st 2018-January 27th 2019
                  -Google Hangouts (just calls): covers July 18th 2018-March 7th 2019
- cards (5 years worth)

Depending on whether there is an update on the current biometric suspension my husband might decide to push his application back a month.

If not we are 2/3 weeks away from submitting. Please can you have a look at my last few posts to check that everything is ok with our documents and checklist?

Assuming no prior marriages/divorces, and no children involved, it looks good to me.  I don't know if the sponsor's passport photo page even needs to be certified, but it's definitely not time-sensitive.  The 28-days requirement only applies to the most recent payslip, most recent bank statement, and the employer letter.

You don't have to push your application back.  Once he has all of your supporting documents in hand, he can submit his online application.  The 28-days rule refers to the date he submits the online application and pays.  If he then has to wait a few weeks for biometrics, it's fine... the clock is already stopped.

I'm sending hubby all the stuff I've prepared for his visa on Thursday. Just waiting on my last payslip and bank statement now.

He has 1 last question:

Will a past repatriation and annulment of a passport look bad on the application?

To recap, his previous girlfriend lived in Australia, he got a visa and moved over there. The relationship ended and his then-partner stole his money. He rescinded the resident visa process of his own volition - he was given xx amount of days to leave the country, no visa infraction happened and he left the country within the allowed time, but to do so he had to take a loan out with the US consulate and his old passport was annulled as a result, it was marked out inside the passport, until the loan was paid back and he could apply for a new passport.

This all happened in 2013 (before we met) and he wants to know if he should volunteer and be 100% transparent in his application/cover letter by including all this information or if he's ok to leave parts out like the repatriation loan. (part of this history was why when he tried to visit me he was denied entry - even though it had nothing to do with immigration, the immigration officer had misunderstood the situation).

He no longer has the old passport.

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Always best to volunteer all the information at the outset. I'd explain everything, that way they can never accuse you of deception by means of omission.

He's written a letter explaining the situation, should he include the paperwork from the repatriation?

He's written a letter explaining the situation, should he include the paperwork from the repatriation?

If he has paperwork, it would be fastest for HO if it's included, to give them a clear idea of what happened.

My husband has written a letter to include with his application detailing some of his history. Can you give it a glance over please?

"To the Entry Clearance Officer,

   I wish to clarify misconstrued information that was cited by the agent who handled my entry refusal to the United Kingdom in April 2019, who claimed adverse visa history with Australia. No adverse history took place and everything which took place was within the terms set forth in the visas that I previously held. The following will briefly explain this history.

   In the past, I had applied for a residency visa to stay with my then de-facto partner in Australia (circa 2012) and was permitted leave to remain while the application was processed over an extended amount of time so long as the relationship persisted. No infractions pertaining to said visa took place at any time during my stay. In late May 2013, my then partner left the relationship and the household, which was under her name, with no warning. Soon after, I contacted the appropriate visa & immigration office to notify them that the relationship had ended and I was willfully cancelling my pending residency visa, to which they advised me that I had 30 days to leave the country. I honored the terms set forth and left approx. two weeks later. In addition, she took valuables and money that belonged to me (which were in her bank account, due to me being ineligible to open one until I was to be granted residency), effectively leaving me completely without accessible finances or valuables to sell.

   Due to these events, I had to make arrangements with the US Consulate to receive a repatriation loan so that I could purchase a flight. As part of the terms & conditions, I would have my passport annulled once I re-entered the US until the repatriation loan was repaid in full. After said loan was paid, I would be eligible to reapply for my passport, which transpired in early 2018. Included is the prior, annulled passport as reference.

   To summarize, no adverse history or infractions took place and I honored all terms set forth by Australian visa & immigration services. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind regards,"

My husband has written a letter to include with his application detailing some of his history. Can you give it a glance over please?

"To the Entry Clearance Officer,

   I wish to clarify misconstrued information that was cited by the agent who handled my entry refusal to the United Kingdom in April 2019, who claimed adverse visa history with Australia. No adverse history took place and everything which took place was within the terms set forth in the visas that I previously held. The following will briefly explain this history.

   In the past, I had applied for a residency visa to stay with my then de-facto partner in Australia (circa 2012) and was permitted leave to remain while the application was processed over an extended amount of time so long as the relationship persisted. No infractions pertaining to said visa took place at any time during my stay. In late May 2013, my then partner left the relationship and the household, which was under her name, with no warning. Soon after, I contacted the appropriate visa & immigration office to notify them that the relationship had ended and I was willfully cancelling my pending residency visa, to which they advised me that I had 30 days to leave the country. I honored the terms set forth and left approx. two weeks later. In addition, she took valuables and money that belonged to me (which were in her bank account, due to me being ineligible to open one until I was to be granted residency), effectively leaving me completely without accessible finances or valuables to sell.

   Due to these events, I had to make arrangements with the US Consulate to receive a repatriation loan so that I could purchase a flight. As part of the terms & conditions, I would have my passport annulled once I re-entered the US until the repatriation loan was repaid in full. After said loan was paid, I would be eligible to reapply for my passport, which transpired in early 2018. Included is the prior, annulled passport as reference.

   To summarize, no adverse history or infractions took place and I honored all terms set forth by Australian visa & immigration services. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind regards,"

Eep.  I stopped reading after the first line.  I would suggest a change in his approach to just state what happened.  Leave out the "misconstrued" and all the things he thinks the agent did wrong.  Just state the history in chronological order.

"In 2012, I applied for a residency visa to stay with my then-partner in Australia.  I was granted leave to remain while my application was processed over an extended amount of time, so long as the relationship persisted.  In late May 2013, the relationship ended and I notified the appropriate visa & immigration office.  I was advised that I had 30 days to leave the country, and I left two weeks later.

Unfortunately, I was left without access to funds when the relationship ended, so I applied to the US Consulate for a repatriation loan to purchase travel to return to the US.  The terms of the loan meant that my passport was revoked upon my arrival in the US until the debt was repaid.  I repaid this loan in 2018 and have obtained a new US passport...."

That sort of thing.  Keep it succinct and keep it neutral.