Joint Online Application for Spouses?

[Ancestor]

Hi all,

Has anyone had successful EXPERIENCE OF or KNOWLEDGE OF whether one can put both husband/wife on the same Online Application and not having to do two separate applications?

This on the Online Application page Apply for British citizenship by naturalisation

In your application, you can also include family members. Each person included in the application will be assessed against the statutory requirements in their own right.

and the Online Application itself

All applicants
If you are making an application with other people, such as a family member or dependant, you can add them here. You can either add each applicant to this page first before filling in their details (including your own) or you can fill in all the details for one applicant first and then add others.
You can return to this page by using the ‘all applicants’ button at the top left of each page.
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Additional applicant
To add another applicant, select their relationship to you. If you do not wish to add another applicant, complete the application for the main applicant and select ‘Continue’.
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Thank you

[Ancestor]

Follow up on the below, with an interesting take, but would still like to hear from any who have had experience of applying online jointly for spouses at the same time who were eligible:-

In light of not having received any input from any posters, I phoned first HO and thereafter the Local Council where I have booked my NDRS appointment.

The individual at HO, I got a response I anticipated, that "if the online form allowed you to enter an additional applicant (spouse) on the same application, then she couldn't see any reason why you couldn't or shouldn't do so". Not very committal nor too much help I am afraid, as I anticipated.

I then spoke with the Registrar at my Local Council, asking her in her experience what people in this same situation had normally being doing. She mentioned that the one stand-out incident she recalled, was that one of the joint applications submitted via her, a HO caseworker had a problem with the one spouse's photograph, and rejected the whole application (both) even though there was nothing wrong with the other, and was an expensive lesson.

Needless to say, unless anyone can provide their experience of, I will proceed and go-ahead with two separate applications for my wife and I.

[alterhase58]

As was pointed out all applications are considered individually, according to the requirements, and irrespective of the relationship, so there is no joint spouse or family application. Therefore it shouldn't matter which way you get the application done - and the fees are the same for everyone.

[Ancestor]

As was pointed out all applications are considered individually, according to the requirements, and irrespective of the relationship, so there is no joint spouse or family application. Therefore it shouldn't matter which way you get the application done - and the fees are the same for everyone.

Thank you alterhase58, I had fully understood that and was aware amounted to the same thing and no such "joint spouse or family application". I just didn't want to do separate and then somebody tell me I was supposed to have done them on the same Online account as it allows you to add "family members".

Appreciated, and was only confirming as, from what I have read/researched and been informed, we do not need submit Birth certs or our Marriage Certificate as part of the Supporting Documents for Naturalisation.

I guess this as they would have had that all previously from our Ancestry Visa Application, and they would already be able to link us together apart from the info inputted on the separate Online Applications.

Thank you for your time and trouble responding. Yourselves (senior members,gurus and moderators) do a sterling fantastic job imo for the greater good, I take my hat off to you all, and hopefully I may assist after my experiences, giving something back too.

Thank you, appreciated.