ILR - okay where do we start?

As it's labelled required, I don't know if I'd leave it blank.

Good point! On the paper ones it used to read:

Section 8B - Other information
8.7 If you have any reasons or grounds for wishing to stay in the United Kingdom which you
have not already mentioned in your application you should do so now in the box below. Please
include here any information you wish to be considered about the welfare or best interests of any
child or children in the UK. You must demonstrate that there is a genuine, subsisting and active
parental relationship between parent and child.

... so the "required" text is a new one!

Anybody any comments on my reasons to stay in the UK statement?

Also, is my prepared employment statement for my GM to sign hitting the marks and a good format to understand?

XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXX Road
Wirral
XXXXXXX
0151 XXXXXX
XXXXXXXX@XXXXX.com

24/06/2019

To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing this letter at the request of Ben Hayward to provide employment information needed for his wife’s visa extension.

Ben is a permanent employee at XXXXXXXX as a Manufacturing Engineer. He has held this position since 7th November 2016, which means he has been employed for two years and seven months up to the date of this letter.

Ben’s starting gross salary was £XX,XXX per annum. Since then, he has had two salary raises. The breakdown of these raises are as listed below:

•   £XX,XXX per annum held for 1 year 6 months from November 2016 to May 2018.
•   £XX,XXX per annum held for 7 months from June 2018 to December 2018.
•   £XX,XXX per annum held for 6 months (to the date of this letter) from January 2019.

I can confirm that the statements above are true and accurate and hope that they meet your information requirements.

If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Mr Boss Man

Anybody any comments on my reasons to stay in the UK statement?

Sounds good .

Like with whether you could live elsewhere, this statement will only be considered if you don’t meet the financial requirement and your application falls for refusal, in which case they will consider Article 8 - and having a U.K. citizen child in the U.K. is one of the only reasons they will grant an approval under Article 8.


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Employer letter looks good too.

If the employer also needs to confirm authenticity of your payslips, this can be done in the letter too.


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Good point! On the paper ones it used to read:

... so the "required" text is a new one!

Even on the paper forms latterly they had added a paragraph about your duty to state this. It was on the front page. This is from an archived copy of FLR(M) but I remember it being on the SET(M) form when we completed it. 

DUTY TO STATE ALL REASONS TO REMAIN IN THE UK
All your reasons or grounds for wishing to stay in the UK must be stated in this application. This requirement is being given under section 120 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. If you do not tell us now of any reasons or grounds for remaining in the UK and you tell us later without good reason, you will lose any right of appeal you may have otherwise qualified for if we refuse your claim. You can use the box at 8B.
 

http://bingham.butterworths.co.uk/PDF/level1/hoflrm.pdf

Employer letter looks good too.

If the employer also needs to confirm authenticity of your payslips, this can be done in the letter too.


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I have genuine paper payslips, the type you tear the perforated edges so this won't be mentioned in the employer letter.

Regarding bank statements, I have a intermittent delivered statements. Should I get the bank to print out the months missing or should I just do a whole years worth of printed statements? Of course getting each page stamped to verify. What would you recommend?

And on this point, do UKVI definitely don't care about the account and money management? I'm poor with money management and every month go into overdraft and my wife bails me out (still figuring out best way to share finances with nursery bills)

Anybody? Planning to print statements this afternoon

I have genuine paper payslips, the type you tear the perforated edges so this won't be mentioned in the employer letter.

Regarding bank statements, I have a intermittent delivered statements. Should I get the bank to print out the months missing or should I just do a whole years worth of printed statements? Of course getting each page stamped to verify. What would you recommend?

And on this point, do UKVI definitely don't care about the account and money management? I'm poor with money management and every month go into overdraft and my wife bails me out (still figuring out best way to share finances with nursery bills)

For the bank statements, I don't see why just getting the missing statements printed would be an issue, but if you have to order them anyways, you might as well just order them all so they're all, more or less, identical.

I don't think UKVI care about your finances - but I could be wrong when it comes to consistently being overdrawn, I'm not sure. I think they only care about seeing the deposits (I.E. for salary or anything else you need to show) going in vs. how you spend the money.

Thanks KoD. I'm going to go into the bank and they'll be printing my statements and stamping them so I need to know what I should ask them to print?

If anybody could give me a clearer answer on money management that would be great.

They absolutely don't care about money management (except in determining Good Character when you got for citizenship, past judgements/bankruptcies could hurt you, depending on when they occurred and how bad they were).  All they care about is that the deposits of your wages going in match what the payslips says you're being paid.

Thanks KoD. I'm going to go into the bank and they'll be printing my statements and stamping them so I need to know what I should ask them to print?

If anybody could give me a clearer answer on money management that would be great.

You may (or may not) find that they can't do them there on the spot. They may need to order them and have them sent to you which can take around 3-5 working days. You might not have this issue at all, but I wanted to advise it's a possibility so you aren't caught off guard.

Money management is completely irrelevant.

The ONLY thing they need the bank statements for is to confirm that your payslip was deposited on the right date and for the right amount. That’s it. They will not even look at the rest of the statement.

The financial requirement and documents for this application are exactly the same as for the fiancé/spousal visa and FLR(M)... so don’t overthink it. Just provide the same information and documents as you did for the last 2 applications and you will be fine.


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Thanks guys.

Because it's the final application and with us now having a child I am SUPER careful with everything!

Thanks guys.

Because it's the final application and with us now having a child I am SUPER careful with everything!

You’ll be fine . It should be old hat by now because you’ve already done it at least 2 times before .

If I remember correctly, the only differences with this application are:

- your mail needs to cover 2.5 years instead of 2 years

- you list the child on the application, and include their passport, birth certificate and a letter addressed to them dated in the last 90 days

- you take the Life in the U.K. test

Oh, and if the visa were to fall for refusal, you’re more likely to be granted leave under Article 8 on the 10-year path because you have a U.K. citizen child.


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