My partner and I had the civil partnership ceremony in the UK in April 2021 and we got the certificates for that.
We both came to the UK in September 2019 studying our first master’s. After finishing that, I started a PhD in Jan 2021 and she another master’s in Feb 2021. We have stayed in the UK since entering.
Then she submitted an application to switch from her current student visa to student dependant visa in the middle of May and attended the appointment on 3 June.
Today she received an email from home office Atlas that “ Please provide further evidence of a sustaining relationship prior to feb 2021, this can be in the form of dated household bills, bank statements in both names etc, please provide evidence for a minimum of 2 years.
If we do not receive anything within 10 days we will make a decision on the information we already have.”
(The proof of living together she submitted is our tenancy agreement starting from Feb 2021 and lasting one year.)
According to ST 32.3. If the applicant and their partner (who must be a Student, or applying at the same time as a Student) are not married or in a civil partnership, all the following requirements must be met:
(a) they must have been living together in a relationship similar to marriage or civil partnership for at least the 2 years before the date of application; and
I assume the caseworker is looking at this rule and requires further information regarding relationship? But we are civil partners and this rule I believe doesn’t apply to us. And to clarify, we don’t have a relationship of 2 years, we have had 1 year and 2 months. We have lived together for 10 months.
What are your suggestions for this? 1)We could submit proof of living together for as far as we can, the 10 months, and explain the whole situation to them. But would you think that’s helpful? 2)what happened if we don’t send any further information? Would that be a straight refusal?
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