Fiance visa - financial requirement help

Hi everyone.

Very thankful to have found this forum whilst preparing all the documents needed for mine and my partner's fiance visa application. I am a UK citizen and she is a US citizen and we are planning to marry in the UK asap and transfer to a FLR(M) visa.

I already meet the financial requirement of £18,600 with my full-time job with a global company that I have been doing for 6+ years, however I am also self-employed as a freelancer. We have started filling out details for our application on the gov.uk website and the checklist of mandatory documents has asked for evidence regarding my self-employment, including fully audited accounts, tax returns and bank statements. I assume this a generated checklist, and these documents are automatically included as I am registered with HRMC?

My bank statements for the past 6 months would already prove that I meet the financial requirement via my full-time job alone. I can pull together all of the documents for the self-employement income but my question is, is this necessary? Would it be complicating my application to include this additional documentation, or will it be sufficient to just provide an explanation in the covering letter?

I want to be as transparent as possible but also have gathered from other threads that the more straight-forward you are with your application, the better.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone.

Very thankful to have found this forum whilst preparing all the documents needed for mine and my partner's fiance visa application. I am a UK citizen and she is a US citizen and we are planning to marry in the UK asap and transfer to a FLR(M) visa.

I already meet the financial requirement of £18,600 with my full-time job with a global company that I have been doing for 6+ years, however I am also self-employed as a freelancer. We have started filling out details for our application on the gov.uk website and the checklist of mandatory documents has asked for evidence regarding my self-employment, including fully audited accounts, tax returns and bank statements. I assume this a generated checklist, and these documents are automatically included as I am registered with HRMC?

My bank statements for the past 6 months would already prove that I meet the financial requirement via my full-time job alone. I can pull together all of the documents for the self-employement income but my question is, is this necessary? Would it be complicating my application to include this additional documentation, or will it be sufficient to just provide an explanation in the covering letter?

I want to be as transparent as possible but also have gathered from other threads that the more straight-forward you are with your application, the better.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the forum!

Presumably the system is asking for self employment details because somewhere in the application you have checked yes to being self employed. You should change that to no and just mention your employment.
What it is really asking is how you are meeting the financial requirements so it's fine to do that. You definitely don't want to muddy the waters with self employment information when you don't actually need to rely on it!