My husband and I are looking to move to Scotland in the next few months, hopefully by June of next year. We both lived there together before we were married, I was on a working holiday makers visa, and both came back to Australia due to serious illness in my family. We have only just recently been talking about moving back to Scotland and have been doing a lot of reading and research on the process. I'm just wondering if someone can take a look at the information we have gathered to send with our application for my visa?
*We have all the identifying documents together, passports etc.
*Marriage certificate and the letter from the office of Births, Deaths and Marriages confirming our wedding booking.
*Two joint bank accounts, one for our wages and outgoings and another for savings, we will provide statements for both of these.
*A budget demonstrating where our money gets spent each week & month.
*Utilities bills in joint names, phone, gas, electricity
*Leases in Joint names, we have these going back to when we first moved in together in 2003, along with bond statements from the Residential Tenancies Authority.
*Three of his tax return statements showing acceptance of our relationship from the Australian tax office.
*A copy of his resume with a reference from his current employer stating is responsibilities and current pay package.
*Copies of his pay slips for the last year showing his wage plus bonuses.
*Copies of job ads that he qualifies for along with recruitment agencies he has registered with - or a letter of offer if he manages to secure a job before we apply for the visa.
*A letter from my husband in support of the application.
*A copy of my resume along with a copy of my certificate 2 in make-up services - I was thinking of also including a mini-portfolio of my make-up work.
*A letter from his Aunt, who we will be staying with to start, stating the size of her home, how many people live there and what rent we will be paying her.
His current passport and my old one, in my maiden name, were stamped by border security at the same time when we travelled together last. Would it be a good idea to make note of this and mark the pages with a post-it? It proves that we travelled together to the UK and back to Australia, and I may have a copy of our flight itinerary from that time, should I also include a copy of that?
Also, I have kept some of the cards we got at the wedding, most got water damaged after a window was left open in a storm and were then thrown out. Would it be a good idea to include the ones I still have with the application? What about wedding photos and photos from before/after the big day?
We will have a minimum $8,000 before we apply for the visa, this is excluding the application fee and airfares, is this an o.k sum of money? We would have had more but both thought it wise to pay off our debts before leaving and have just made our final payments, as a result our savings are pretty depleted. We do have $2000 dollars in cheques that we have just received as wedding gifts, but have not cashed them yet as we weren't sure if such a large sum of money suddenly appearing in the account could look suspicious to anyone looking at our application - like we were trying to pad our savings up a bit.
Sorry for the length of my post, hopefully I've made sense and not rambled on too much as I have a tendency to do.
Thanks for taking a look, any advice or suggestions would be very much appreciated
