ILR Final Doc Check (SUBMITTING TONIGHT - FINGERS CROSSED :D )

Hiya -

Want to do one last final check of the docs as I'm looking to submit the application tonight! Only thing I'm not sure of is when I scan/upload the docs, do I need to scan EVERY page of our passports or just the photo page? (I'm sure it'll answer this when I get to that part, but just checking now in case it doesn't). Docs I have are as follows (in line with the UKVI form):

MANDATORY DOCS

• My Passport (current)
• My husband's passport (current)
• My husband's declaration -downloaded, signed, and re-uploaded

OTHER DOCS

• Bank Statements from mid May 2018 until the first week of January 2019
• Mail*** as noted at the bottom of this post *** SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO KF WHO CAME OVER AND CALMED ME DOWN AND HELPED ME ORGANISE THE MAIL! YOU'RE THE BEST!
• No document to show my English language skills as my Passport from the US will count for this
• The council Tax docs for 2017 & 2018 for this property are included in our mail evidence (assuming this is allowed as it always has been before)
• No evidence of my husband's settled status as his passport should count towards this (he is brit)
• My LitUK pass certificate
• Letter from my employer that states me name, confirms my employment, confirms my gross annual salary and start date at the company, confirming I'm permanent and full-time, and confirming when I started receiving this level of pay (as well as what my salary was prior to my latest raise, just to cover all bases) as well as what my role actually is.
• My BRP card
• My pay slips (I will be using my salary to qualify) from the end of June until December (we get paid at the end of the month so this should cover all 6 months and be within the months I'm providing my banks statements for)
• Both a statement each for myself and for my husband for our mortgage to count as evidence of monthly housing costs for our current house. For some reason they send us one each instead of one together so I will just include both and explain that this is just what Barclays does.

Other docs not explicitly listed on the docs page

• My expired passport that I had when I first moved here
• Land registry doc for our house
• Marriage certificate
• Printout of pet insurance (to support my "other reasons to stay in the UK" claim)

***Mail Evidence***:

• My HMRC letter from August 2016 + Rik's HSBC statement(for our joint account). I've also printed out an AMEX statement for him because we may end up a bit HSBC heavy but we are lacking on his docs for 2016 because he "didn't realise I would need it so he didn't save it" (another argument for another day) from August 2016
• My Capita letter (for my pension from my previous employer) from January 2017+ Rik's HSBC statement (for our joint) and I've again included the printout of his AMEX statement for the same reason and will be adding the explanation in the notes afterwards from January 2017
• Joint council tax from March 2017
• Joint HSBC letter from July 2017
• My pension statement from Zurich (took over Capita I think or something like that) from November 2017 + a HSBC bank statement for Rik from November 2017
• Joint council tax from March 2018
• joint sainsbury's energy bill from July 2018
• my student loan document from the US department of Ed from November 2018 & Bank statement from First Direct for Rik from
• The mortgage statement from Barclay's will also be something to show continued joint mail this month (January 2019)

I know it's option to include employee contract and I also have something that states when i got a raise and how much the percentage was/for what period/etc, but I think I'm going to pass on adding those unless anybody feels otherwise??  That's everything I think - doing a final check now to make sure it's all there and in order and scanning everything in. We really struggled on the mail because we don't get much mailed to us anymore so this was maybe the hardest bit for us (and what I'm absolutely most anxious over. I also put "no" for if there was any other reason/grounds that I wanted to stay in the country because it asked for evidence and I assume they don't want me to say that I need to stay because my whole life is here etc. etc. emotional stuff as I imagine that's self-exclamatory and they're only wanting something like being a refugee/asylum seeker or something, correct?

Any last comments or does it look like I'm ready to go and submit? (form's already filled out just need to get the docs uploaded and ready which we're doing now)

Thanks in advance! Looking to just go priority with this as I'm down to the wire on my current visa and I'm currently a ball of anxiety worrying what happens if I screw up and get rejected. EEK.

Only other thing I’m thinking is should I list our dog as another reason to stay? Doesn’t seem really relevant but unsure if it’s worth it as it’s a shared responsibility...

Only other thing I’m thinking is should I list our dog as another reason to stay? Doesn’t seem really relevant but unsure if it’s worth it as it’s a shared responsibility...

IIRC, I listed our cats!  . It certainly wouldn't hurt.

IIRC, I listed our cats!  . It certainly wouldn't hurt.

Cool!! I will amend that part! Easy peasy! Can scan her birth certificate thing that tracks her jabs and stuff as evidence. Thanks!


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Do you have your marriage certificate in there somewhere?

Cool!! I will amend that part! Easy peasy! Can scan her birth certificate thing that tracks her jabs and stuff as evidence. Thanks!


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You don't need that. 

Do you have your marriage certificate in there somewhere?

Yes! Sorry! That’s me being dim! It’s in the pile I just forgot to list it above because they don’t put it on their form so I put it to the side and forgot to write it down lol


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You don't need that. 

Okay cool! Just went looking for it but to be easier to not need it (it’s just that they ask for proof - I could always attach email confirming her current pet insurance validity just to prove I’ve got her for real lol)


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All submitted

Appointment is Saturday the 26th in Birmingham (earliest I could get besides a weekday a few days earlier but either in central London or Birmingham and would rather spend 2 hours in the car than over 2 hours commuting into central London and don’t want to take off work).

Uploading docs tomorrow as I’m exhausted (but it’s nice in case we realise we need a different doc or something as gives time to change). Fingers crossed... eek.


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Good luck!! I hope the appointment goes smoothly

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Good luck!! I hope the appointment goes smoothly

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Was a pain to get an appointment! Hah but we’ll see! Thanks


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Did I overlook where you listed the land registry document to show home ownership?

Did I overlook where you listed the land registry document to show home ownership?

Yes, it's in there. Above the mail items at the end. 

Yes, it's in there. Above the mail items at the end. 

Thanks.  I swear I looked three times.  This must be why ksand always breaks up the evidence into the three categories.  But, yay!  It's all there!

hah Yeah it's there JF They don't ask for it that's why I listed it in the "other" items (same as they don't ask for old passport and stuff).

Need to go amend now to add my Marriage certificate as I was just to focused to do it last night (and think I tried but Taptalk wouldn't let me modify the post).