Leave to Remain - 1st round

Hello!
I am sure this has been asked and I have scoured through the forums over the past few months, but I am getting overwhelmed and I'm trying to keep my cool.
I entered the UK on October 17, 2021 and we got married/civil partnership on January 14, 2022. My fiancee visa expires at the end of February.
Can someone point me in the direction of the list of the needed documentation/paperwork of the FIRST Leave to Remain visa? I know there's a fair amount of crossover between the documentation between the fiancee visa and the Leave to Remain, but I feel like I'm going in circles. I just want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly.
Thanks in advance and I'm terribly sorry if I've done something wrong

Can someone point me in the direction of the list of the needed documentation/paperwork of the FIRST Leave to Remain visa? I know there's a fair amount of crossover between the documentation between the fiancee visa and the Leave to Remain, but I feel like I'm going in circles. I just want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly.
Thanks in advance and I'm terribly sorry if I've done something wrong

The documents are pretty much all the same as the fiancé visa (finances, accommodation, relationship) except that for the relationship requirement, instead of providing evidence of regular communication while living apart, you provide your marriage certificate plus evidence of living together in the UK since arriving on your fiancé visa.

You need:
- 6 items of mail in each name (either jointly or individually addressed)
- from at least 3 official sources
- spread evenly over the time you have lived together

Since you have only recently arrived in the U.K. it’s unlikely you will have been able to collect 6 items of official mail in your name yet, so in that case, you just provide any mail you do have, along with a letter explaining why you do not have any more than that.


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Since your fiancé visa expires at the end of February, you must have all your documents ready and have submitted the online FLR(M) application by that date at the latest.


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We have a new council tax letter, a letter from the registration office confirming our wedding date with both our names, bank letter setting up a joint account, and an updated tenant agreement as mail so far. We plan to apply  by the middle of February, unless something happens to delay it.

We have a new council tax letter, a letter from the registration office confirming our wedding date with both our names, bank letter setting up a joint account, and an updated tenant agreement as mail so far. We plan to apply  by the middle of February, unless something happens to delay it.

Sounds good... basically you just want to include as many items of mail as you can in each name, and if you have less than 6 each, or less than 3 sources, you just include a letter of explanation for it.

So our landlord won't allow me onto the tenant agreement without financial evidence ie, myself having employment but she will write a letter, addressed to the both of us, stating that we both live here and that I am allowed to reside here. Do you think that will cause any issue with the needed evidence?

So our landlord won't allow me onto the tenant agreement without financial evidence ie, myself having employment but she will write a letter, addressed to the both of us, stating that we both live here and that I am allowed to reside here. Do you think that will cause any issue with the needed evidence?

No, that’s perfectly fine - not everyone who applies is listed on the tenancy, so it’s not an issue at all.

So:

- If both of you are listed on the tenancy, you just need to include the tenancy agreement in both your names.
 
- If only one of you is on the tenancy, then you include:
1. the tenancy agreement in one name
2. a letter from the landlord confirming the tenancy and stating that you have permission to continue living there


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I recommend starting building the documentation.  A joint account with Lloyds with paper statements is good...  move some money in and out of it each month so it triggers the statements.

The other thing I did for the FLR(M) was have a friend who is a magistrate write a letter saying how long they have known us and that we live together.
If you have someone who is an accountant, lawyer, teacher etc maybe do that.   Compile evidence from credible sources kind of thing. Better to have it all and not use it that be scrambling.

The other thing I did for the FLR(M) was have a friend who is a magistrate write a letter saying how long they have known us and that we live together.
If you have someone who is an accountant, lawyer, teacher etc maybe do that.   Compile evidence from credible sources kind of thing. Better to have it all and not use it that be scrambling.

UKVI cannot consider any character letters from any friends or family members (other than the signed declaration from the sponsor). It’s unlikely that the letter you included was even looked at by the person deciding your application, because they would not have been allowed to consider it.

It’s a tick-box visa. If you provide all the required documents to tick the boxes (finances, accommodation, relationship/cohabitation), you get the visa. It’s as simple as that.


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Weird question number, I lost count...
I was focused on collecting my eveidence before I started on the online application so I've started that today. It's asking about family and friends in my country of origin.
How specific are we talking here? I can list all my close friends and family, I judt dont want to put too much or too little, you know??

Weird question number, I lost count...
I was focused on collecting my eveidence before I started on the online application so I've started that today. It's asking about family and friends in my country of origin.
How specific are we talking here? I can list all my close friends and family, I judt dont want to put too much or too little, you know??

Start with closest family and move outwards from there. As many as you can. Just name, city and state is enough.

Start with closest family and move outwards from there. As many as you can. Just name, city and state is enough.

I have a lot of cousins and extended family I don't speak to, have contact with, or actually know lol. I don't know if 1k characters is enough. Thanks!

In regard to Extending or Switching Partner Route, this is the first time I'm applying for leave to remain, but the wording is a bit vague.

"Is this the first time you have applied for a partner route, or an extension, with your current partner (including as a fiance(e) or proposed civil partner)?"

That would be No, correct? Since we received a fiance/CP visa?

In regard to Extending or Switching Partner Route, this is the first time I'm applying for leave to remain, but the wording is a bit vague.

"Is this the first time you have applied for a partner route, or an extension, with your current partner (including as a fiance(e) or proposed civil partner)?"

That would be No, correct? Since we received a fiance/CP visa?

Correct, it would be no.

I have a lot of cousins and extended family I don't speak to, have contact with, or actually know lol. I don't know if 1k characters is enough. Thanks!

Just stop if/when it cuts you off, no need to provide even more.

I think think they make it difficult and ambiguous on purpose.  It would not be hard to make the questions less so!

Correct, it would be no.

Just stop if/when it cuts you off, no need to provide even more.

I think think they make it difficult and ambiguous on purpose.  It would not be hard to make the questions less so!

This forum is amazing. Y'all are saving me a lot of internal struggle.
Some of these questions feel like traps with how unnecessarily vague they are!

So my partner has been continuously employed for over the past year, but she switched employers a couple months ago for better pay and hours. (She had been working 3rd shift with 10 hour shifts at 7 days on and 7 days off rotation. Now she is in a Monday to Friday 9 to 5 office job and is so much happier.)
The financial section when asking about employment, I have to put she has not been with the same employment for the past 6 months, but we have never dipped below the financial requirement. Her last job was also above the requirement. Will this change in employment cause our application issues?