extending visa for unmarried partnership application?

[kateblake]

Does anyone have any creative suggestions extending stay in order to accumulate enough years of cohabitation for unmarried partnership visa?

My partner and I have been together since 24 March 2005. He is from NZ and I am a UK citizen. Our first child is due 24 March 2006. His 2 year work visa runs out 1 October 2006. We can prove our relationship back to April 2005 in terms of phone calls and emails, but cannot start proving cohabitation until Sep 2005/Oct 2005. It seems we fall short of the two years required for an unmarried partner visa by at least 6-10 months.

Couple of questions:

1. Does my partner have ANY other options to extend his stay long enough i.e. 6-10 months longer so we could then apply for unmarried partnership? He is working but not irreplaceable. I am going to be on maternity leave from 06.03.05 so not really an option for him not to work.

2. Does having a child provide proof of relationship from moment of conception? I.e. in our case end of June 2005.

3. If I went back to work Oct 2005 and he stayed with baby at home - if we could afford that (which I doubt) presumably he could stay on a holiday(?) visa or some other kind that does not require working, for 6-10 months at the end of which we could apply for unmarried partnership status?

4. What exactly is a fiance visa? Could he stay on that fro 6-10 months and then at end of it, we didn't marry but had enough time built up for unmarried partnership visa?

5. Do we have to get married if we want him to stay? If we do get married do we have to marry 3 or 6 months before his visa expires? Is it necessarily the case he will be able to stay if we did marry in time before his visa expired?

Thanks for all the help.

Kate

[John]

This is a duplicate. See this topic

I am going to lock this one.