My partner (Canadian) moved to the UK back in May 2018 on a Tier 5 youth mobility visa to live with me. We had been together for a while before this and had lived together whilst working in China, where we met (although there is a very slim chance of us being able to prove our cohabitation there with any paper work).
We are now looking at applying for a FLR (M) visafor her to stay as my unmarried partner, but the requirements for that are that we have been cohabiting as partners for 2 years. We don't have any bills in both names for the first few months as my partner didn't secure a job right away, although we do have a joint bank account that we set up after a couple of months. Regardless though, by the time her current visa expires we will only have bills to show that we have been living together for about 20/21 months, not the 2 years required for the visa. She did, however, make it very clear in her application for her tier 5 youth mobility visa that she was moving to the UK to be with me and that she would be living with me from day 1. I've also got plenty of documentation of things like couples holidays going back 5-6 years.
Does anyone have any experience in our situation or advice for how to proceed/how likely we are to be accepted?
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