Fiance Visa Checklist - Please review for us?

[menwall]

Hi all,

I'm sure there are other threads on this but each person usually has a different scenario and requirements so I was wondering if someone here could take a few minutes and review our list of supporting docs which we will be submitting? I would really appreciate it and would love to hear of anything we have left out.

I am the sponsor and my fiance from Thailand will be coming to the UK to marry and settle. We will be applying next month, but I wanted to get this list drawn up now so that I would have time to get anything I may have missed. Our list is as follows:

-Standard docs
1.Applicant passport
2.2 passport size photo of Applicant
3.Letter from me (sponsor) outlining relationship history, how we met, our many trips and confirming my sponsorship and details of wedding
4.Letter of introduction from Applicant also giving details of relationship, plans for the future, date of wedding which we have booked
5.Tuberculosis certificate (as she is applying from Thailand)
6.English certificate & statement of results (from passing PET test on UKBA list of approved tests)
7.My passport photo page, thai visa stamps and driving license all certified copies.
8.My birth certificate long version
9. Applicant birth certificate (original) and certified translated
10. Signed sponsorship undertaking form (SU07) by my father (for Accomodation sponsorship) and I with note to explain why father has signed
11. Police report of applicant's previously lost passport

-Relationship history
1.E-mails from 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 (4 pages)
2.Whatsapp chat logs over the past 2 years (4 pages)
3.Google chat logs over the last year (4 pages)
4.Skype chat logs/phone call logs over the last 3 years (5-10 pages)
5.Birthday cards and letters which we have sent each other
6.Photographs of each time we have visited each other as well as photos with each others family (9 pages)
7.Previous flight bookings/iteneraries of trips we took together and to see each other over the past 4 years. (5 pages)

-Accommodation (we are staying with my parents)
1.Certified copy of the deeds to the house
2.Certified copy of a document which shows the mortgage being taken out
3.Mortgage statements from 2005 and then 2006 which shows the mortgage having being paid off
4.A recent rates bills (this is the equivilant of council tax in Northern Ireland) in my fathers name as well as an oil bill.
5.Recent bank statements will be used from financial section to prove I also live there
6.Letter signed by both my mother and father inviting my fiance to stay in the house for the entire duration of the visa and clarifying who lives there.
7.Photographs of every room inside the house, including spare bedroom and exterior

-Financial requirement (Category A)
1. 6 months original payslips of sponsor (£1550 p/m AFTER tax)
2. 6 months original bank statements of sponsor
3. Letter from employer confirming duration of employment, salary, type of employment etc of sponsor
4. Signed employment contract of sponsor
5. Letter explaining why P60 unavailable (because I got my first paycheck shortly after the tax year ended)


-Intent to marry
1. Signed handwritten letter from my minister on church stationary to confirm booking in church for 19th April 2014
2. Receipt for £650 deposit from hotel + scanned copy of wedding enquiry form + wedding running sheet (timeline of the day) from hotel
3. Receipt for deposit on wedding dress (£200)
4. Letter explaining why we have not given notice to registrar (we felt this may be breaking immigration rules as we interpreted it as she may have to have her fiance visa before she can give notice) & printouts of the UKBA website with highlighted paragraphs stating to give notice after the visa is obtained highlighted and underlined).
5. Discount-card letter from hotel written as 'Dear Bride and Groom' and thanking us for choosing them to host our wedding reception
6. E-mail correspondance with hotel regarding the wedding reception
7. List of family and friends to invite to the ceremony (all-day invites) and only the evening reception

-Plans for the future
1. A letter from us to state that whilst my fiance will not be getting a job whilst on the fiance visa, we have done some research into potential jobs which match her CV/Resume and also potential accomodation for after she has gained further leave to remain.
2.Printouts of potential rental accommodations
3.Three recent and potential job vacancies for applicant
4.Applicant and Sponsor CV showing job history, academic qualifications etc.

Please let me know if I have missed out any major gaps. Your help is very much appreciated and a second opinion would really put our minds at ease.

Thanks (from both of us!)

[Amber]

Please continue in your other thread.