Yesterday we finally submitted my partners residency application!
We included the following
- Photos of us together and with family and friends
-facebook posts with each other tagged in the same ones, Facebook posts photos, Instagram post photos.
- call log, Skype messages, (From when we were apart), text messages and emails
- all landlord letters, bond, tenancy agreements from the three different houses we lived in over the period of a year a 4 months we've been living together
- all mail addressed to us together and separately at the houses we lived in
- my name and his name on each others car insurance policies as "named drivers"
- both our cars register on my toll road account
- proof of a coffee table we bought together
- proof of a kitten we have bought together
- proof of a bed we have bought together
- letters from current landlord explaining why we don't have bills sent to us (she pays for them herself)
- Letters from friends and family
- payslips from both of us showing we work and both earn money to contribute towards living together
- joint bank account statements
- bank statements highlighting flat payments, grocery, restaurants, gifts
- communication between his mother and I
-communication between him and my mum
- communication between myself and my mother where his name is mentioned
- future trips planned together (this coming April and August)
- past trips /concerts, things we've done
-Photos of us on holiday with my parents and his parents
- certified copy of my passport
-his passport
- his birth certificate (plus reference to his police certificate and medicals that he supplied in his temporary visa last year)
- grocery and shopping receipts
-cinema tickets
- Christmas cards from family
-wedding invitations
- his name as my next of kin from a hospital statement
- joint utility bills from when we did pay bills at our previous flat
- letter from flatmate when we lived in a flat saying we lived in the same room and slept on the same bed and were obviously in a romantic serious relationship
- relationship timeline
- letter from my partner explaining our relationship
-letter from me explaining our relationship
It was a huge folder that we put in a big envelope.
I sectioned everything off into different relevant sections to make it as easy as possible for the advisor it gets assigned to to read.
FINGERS CROSSED NOW.
I hope this thread can help people in their future applications.
O