ILR- questions

I'm on a 5 year spouse visa (husband in military). My ILR application is due by 22/7, so getting ready to apply for it soon. My visa expires on this date too. My visa was issued 22/7/2015, though I didn't move to the UK until 7/8/2015.

With regards to relationship evidence, is it okay to provide my first document from August 2015? Since I moved to the UK that month, it's difficult to find any document from July 2015.

Also, could I use a payslip from my previous employer as one of the relationship evidence documents? My name and address is on it.

I'm on a 5 year spouse visa (husband in military). My ILR application is due by 22/7, so getting ready to apply for it soon. My visa expires on this date too. My visa was issued 22/7/2015, though I didn't move to the UK until 7/8/2015.

With regards to relationship evidence, is it okay to provide my first document from August 2015? Since I moved to the UK that month, it's difficult to find any document from July 2015.

If you didn't arrive until August 2015, you can't provide any evidence for July 2015 anyway, because you weren't living in the UK yet... the point of the relationship evidence is to prove you were physically living in the same house as each other on the date each document was mailed to you.

So, you will need to provide documents from the following months:
August 2015
June 2016
April 2017
February 2018
December 2018
October 2019
Optional extra: July 2020

Also, could I use a payslip from my previous employer as one of the relationship evidence documents? My name and address is on it.

You can as long as it was printed by your employer and physically issued to you, rather than being issued online.

Great, thanks.

Also, my husband's had two tours of duty during the visa- in 2017 and in 2019/2020 (I went home to Ohio during both tours). Do you think my husband should get some kind of documentation from his employer confirming his deployment dates?

Great, thanks.

Also, my husband's had two tours of duty during the visa- in 2017 and in 2019/2020 (I went home to Ohio during both tours). Do you think my husband should get some kind of documentation from his employer confirming his deployment dates?

Yeah, I would get something confirming when he was deployed.

You have to explain on the application form any periods that you have lived apart during the 5 years, and the reasons for that. Military deployment is one of the few acceptable reasons for a couple to have lived apart during the visa validity, so you'll want to show proof of his deployments... especially as you went back to the US during those periods.