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Thanks very much for your advice.TODMATT wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:34 pmYou do not need to pay any lawyers to do your application as you can do it yourselves with the help of the forum and research.
Here is my advice.
Letter from relatives is NOT needed.
Ask your partner to include your name on his bills although it is not mandatory to proof this since you recently just came into the UK.
Housing report is also not needed except if your partner lives with non related adult.
You must meet the financial requirement and submit the important documents such as payslips, bank statement and employment letter.
Contract no.So, in short, our application should consist of:
- Work contract (to prove we meet financial threshold)
- Letter from employer to confirm I work there
- Bank statements (for what period? we did 6 months for the fiancee visa)
olliep wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:32 pmThanks very much for your advice.TODMATT wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:34 pmYou do not need to pay any lawyers to do your application as you can do it yourselves with the help of the forum and research.
Here is my advice.
Letter from relatives is NOT needed.
Ask your partner to include your name on his bills although it is not mandatory to proof this since you recently just came into the UK.
Housing report is also not needed except if your partner lives with non related adult.
You must meet the financial requirement and submit the important documents such as payslips, bank statement and employment letter.
So, in short, our application should consist of:
- Work contract (to prove we meet financial threshold)
- Letter from employer to confirm I work there
- Bank statements (for what period? we did 6 months for the fiancee visa)
Hopefully we can build this list as we go to get a really strong application.
Thanks again!
The rules are the same for the spouse visa. You will have to provide proof of meeting the financial requirement at the application date, which means new payslips. If you have been with your current employer for less than 6 months at the application date, you could apply using Category B (see the link below for the guidance document on meeting the financial requirement). In this case you would have to prove that your current salary and total income in the 12 months prior to the application date both meet the financial requirement.
If the letter your old employer previously provided met the requirements (i.e. stated the person’s employment and gross annual salary, the length of their employment, the period over which they have been or were paid the level of salary relied upon in the application, and the type of employment), then you could probably get away with re-using that.
You will need to apply under CAT B since you have been less than 6 months with your current employer assuming you can fufil 2 conditions.olliep wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:30 pmThanks for your replies!
In terms of payslips, I switched jobs in October which we fully disclosed within our fiancee application. I got a letter from my old and new employer explaining the switch i.e. there was no period where I wasn't employed. Should I re-submit the payslips from the old job that cross over the 6 month mark? The lawyers we worked with said that the 6 months of payslips had to be consecutive from the same employer. Hopefully this isn't the case for the spousal?
I should add as well that there is no way I'd be able to get cooperation from my old employer if I needed another letter or something, so I really hope this isn't needed!
Thanks again!
Yes I believe so since the Appendix fm Financial requirement states for second condition should be last 12 months read from page 24olliep wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:04 amThanks for the info about Cat B, I had no idea! I think I can tick both those boxes, however I was self employed until March last year - but since being "traditionally" employed since march I have earnt over that threshold over 10 months, with the payslips to prove it. Will this suffice?
Thanks again
Per E-LTRP.1.10. of Appendix FM, the evidence of cohabitation is not required when switching from a fiancee visa to a spouse visa. Unfortunately, as the application form is the same for all spouse visa applications, it prompts this as supporting evidence even when it's not required.
Even if applying using Category B (less than 6 months with current employer), you don't need payslips or bank statements going back that far, only the period covering the 12 months prior to the application date.
This is great to hear as I'm really not sure how we would get together 6 pieces of joint evidence. We will be getting a letter from the council soon confirming that I've added my partner's name to the council tax bill - would this be useful at all or can we omit completely the evidence of cohabitation?Per E-LTRP.1.10. of Appendix FM, the evidence of cohabitation is not required when switching from a fiancee visa to a spouse visa.
Would simply the signed tenancy agreement be enough for this? Both of our names are on the agreement and my bank statements would reflect the rent that we've paid for the past 2 months.You will also need proof of adequate accommodation at your current address
Should be sufficient if both your names are on it and you are the only ones living there.
It's not required but probably wouldn't hurt to include.
Did you clarify this? It seems very peculiar.AmazonianX wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 12:31 pmWhat your vignette states is exactly what is on a spouse visa....only that there is no 6-month spouse visa. You will need to clarify this with HO because it appears while you applied for a fiance visa HO granted you spouse visa but with validity of fiance visa.afdales wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:08 amMay I ask... what the visa type said on the Vignette in the passport visa ?
We think we have a "fiance" visa but the Vignette says "D - PARTNER (STANDARD) standard [my name]"
It ALSO says in the endorsements "WORK PERMITTED"
It's a 6 month visa.
I think the rules changed last year maybe...
This was someone else's query as they posted a completely separate question on my original thread. Hopefully they can get their issues solved too but maybe in a separate one if a mod could move it?Did you clarify this? It seems very peculiar.
Doesn't seem like there's much else you can do really. Maybe make it clear in a cover letter that you're applying for FLR(M) for the first time from a finacee visa.
We'll make it very clear in our cover letter what our movements have been since she arrived (e.g. how we moved from my parents house to a new apartment) and include proof of this. Hopefully that will be enough to understand that we live together and additionally explain why we lack 6 whole pieces of cohabitation evidence.