How to answer ILR question about living together
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:41 am
I'm driving myself insane with this one question, so any help is appreciated.
It's the question asking when you first lived with your partner.
I arrived in the UK on a fiancee visa, stayed with my husband in his apartment for a month (was not on the lease), then moved into a new apartment with him with both names on the lease shortly before we got married, and then received my spouse visa extension a month after.
Which date should I use?
— Date I came over on my fiancee visa because that's when I technically moved in with him?
— Date of our first lease kicking in, because that's the first place I had equal status on an apartment?
— Date my spouse visa was issued, because only then would I legally be "living" in the UK?
I feel like it should be the third one because that lines up with the question of how long I've "lived" in the UK (i.e. the duration of my spouse visa/residency permit) but I'm not sure if cohabitation is measured differently from legal residency. I know I'm overthinking it.
It's the question asking when you first lived with your partner.
I arrived in the UK on a fiancee visa, stayed with my husband in his apartment for a month (was not on the lease), then moved into a new apartment with him with both names on the lease shortly before we got married, and then received my spouse visa extension a month after.
Which date should I use?
— Date I came over on my fiancee visa because that's when I technically moved in with him?
— Date of our first lease kicking in, because that's the first place I had equal status on an apartment?
— Date my spouse visa was issued, because only then would I legally be "living" in the UK?
I feel like it should be the third one because that lines up with the question of how long I've "lived" in the UK (i.e. the duration of my spouse visa/residency permit) but I'm not sure if cohabitation is measured differently from legal residency. I know I'm overthinking it.