For the financial requirement, you need to include:
- 6 FULL months of payslips showing at least £1,550 before tax on each one.
- 6 FULL months of bank statements showing the deposit of every payslip
- letter from your employer stating ALL of the following
i) current employment and salary
ii) length of employment
iii) length of time earning current salary
iv) type of employment
And also:
v) your maternity leave and furlough details
vi) verification of your payslips if they are issued electronically
Optional but recommended:
- your job contract
- your latest P60
The latest payslip, bank statement and the employer letter must be dated no more than 28 days before the date you submit your online application. You will likely need to include 7 months worth of payslips and bank statements to make sure every day of the 6 months is covered (i.e. if your latest payslip is February 2021, you will need to include July 2020 to Feb 2021 payslips)
For the accommodation requirement, if you are renting, you will need to provide:
- your current tenancy agreement in both names
- if only one of your names is on the tenancy, then you also need a new letter from the landlord confirming that the other still has permission to live in the property
- latest council tax bill
For the cohabitation requirement, you need to include:
- 6 items of official mail in each of your names spaced evenly over the the time you have lived together, up to a maximum of 2 years
- so if you have lived together for 2 years, then that will be 1 item in each name spaced every 4 months, going back to March 2019
- they can be either jointly-addressed, individually-addressed or a combination of both to make 6 in each name... for example, 6 joint documents, 12 individual documents, or say, 2 joint and 8 individual (4 each).
- they must be from at least 3 different official sources
- they need to have been received in the mail in the months they were issued, so you can't order backdated documents, or use electronically issued bills/statements
So, if you are planning to apply in the next few weeks (i.e. in March or April), then you will want 1 document in each name from each of the following months
March 2019
July 2019
November 2019
March 2020
July 2020
November 2020
March 2021 (this makes 7 documents, but we suggest including it so that you cover the full 2 years)
If you are unable to provide 6 documents in each name, or you don't have at least 3 sources, or they are not evenly spaced, then you just need to write an explanation for why not.
Examples of suitable documents are:
• Letters or other documents from government departments or agencies, for example HM Revenue and Customs, Department for Work and Pensions, DVLA, TV Licensing.
• Letters or other documents from your GP, a hospital or other local health service about medical treatments, appointments, home visits or other medical matters
• Bank statements/letters
• Building society savings books/letters
• Council tax bills or statements
• Electricity and/or gas bills or statements
• Water rates bills or statements
• Mortgage statements/agreement
• Tenancy agreement(s)
• Telephone bills or statements
Other documents you will need:
- your current passport
- your BRP card for your Tier 2 visa
- your husband's current UK passport
- your marriage certificate
- any divorce decrees you may have, if either of you have been married before
- each of your childrens' birth certificates
- each of your childrens' passports (if they have a passport)
- a letter for each child, dated in the last 3 months, confirming their address... i.e. from their GP or school
Even though your children are UK citizens, you will still be asked for their personal details on the application form, though they won't be included as applicants or as part of the financial requirement.