Shahkakaram wrote:Izzy72 wrote:Hello Shahjee,
I had the same questions as tanzeela, so thank you for replying those in the below.
However, I am still confused because just last week I consulted with a immigration advisor and she said that I need to submit bank statement for the last 3 months just for proving I have no financial problems for living in the UK.
Do you think it's really not necessary to submit bank statements? I hope so because my financial status shows 'Just' surviving here.
Also, she said that I need to submit tenancy agreement to proof my current address, but this is not necessary, isn't it?
She also said that I need to submit all of my diploma/degree to show them I finished the course as a student.(Mainly I am here as a student in old system or Tier 4.) But I think those are not necessary according to your and others' answers if I have appropriate result of English language test. Am I right?
I don't know why an immigration advisor confuse me if those are not necessary. Do you think if I submit those documents, it makes their process easier and faster?
If you could give me a kind reply, I would be grateful. I am going to apply this Saturday or Monday.
Thank you so much.
Izzy
Hi Izzy ,
Sorry to interrupt you , ofcourse shahjee will reply you in more detail , however i just want to give some input here on your question that Why immigration advisor are confusing applicants to submit bank statements and other supporting documents ....??/
There must be several reason :-
Some times its depends upon the cases or u can say depends upon case to case where you must have to show extra supporting documents so to keep their client on safe side they trying their best to present their client case in more organised way as i said depends upon case to case where you have to show your income evidence ..However you can also see on the guidance of Home office under 10 years Long residency route of settlement that you don't need to submit any bank letters or any sort of financial supporting documents ..its not needed at all because the main reason UK is allowing migrant who lived in this country 10 years legally with some terms and conditions they are allowing you to stay rest of your lives in UK which is again not the UK Law but EU law for which UK is bound to follow ...however UK wants applicants to fulfill certain condtions some of them are :-
Events that break continuous residence
Continuous residence is considered to be broken if the applicant has:
been absent from the UK for a period of more than 180 days at any one time, or is
absent from the UK for a shorter period but does not have valid leave to enter the UK
on their return, or valid leave to remain on their departure from the UK
spent a total of 540 days outside the UK throughout the whole 10 year period.
Passed LIFE IN UK TEST
Approved English language test certificates
your passports to cover your 10 years stay and if you haven't got any of them then in application form ( page 20 /21) they have mentioned the list of documents to support your stay
Photographs
Your last BRP card
Completed filled SET(LR) Latest version application form with ofcourse the payment 
photocopies of each documents as per as instructed
Thats it ....not more than that as i told you if any buddy is submitting any of the extra documents to support their application is still allowable but not necessary until and unless you have been asked to provide them later on ...
Moreover ,In an application forum they never asked you to provide any sort of bank statements ...
Secondly most of the immigration adviser and practicing solicitor are not that competent they are mixing the SET(LR) with SET(O) and others requirements as they claimed their selves very experienced and its also true that in last 10 years they dealt with so many long residency cases where applicants are living illegally or legally or combination of both in this country so have to proof their continious stay they have to proof so many documents ....one of my neighbour here got his ILR through that route almost four years ago but as per as my knowledge that route has already been closed but still as i told you they are just asking for that document just as an additional documents where as there is no need of showing any proof to them that you have sufficient funds to survive here or not bit irrelevant for SET(LR) ...absolutely no need of it as SET(LR) falls under
humanity Right of European Convention human right ...
And i think you all should also know that cameron government has already closed all the doors/routes to NON-EU immigrants to complete 10 years legal stay in UK Luckily by the Grace of Allah we all completed 10 years long residency stay here in UK so eligible to apply under SET(LR) application guidance ....
Some of the information are irrelevent to your question however i hope that you will not get confused by those immigration advisor advised and happily apply with all the necessary documents confidently ....there should be no issue and also you can see number of members on this forum has successfully got their ILR by just sumbitting the above listed documents with their application form ...
hope its helps ,
best of luck with your application next week ,
Regards ,
S . Akaram[/quote]
Thank you very much Akaram.
Now I can feel more confident to send the application without unnecessary documents.
May I ask one more question?
I have a son who came to the UK with me at the same time and applies the same SET(LR) . I know he cannot apply as a dependent anymore, so I will apply him with a separate application form. However, he was my dependent for the first 6 years, then he took his own student visa. So I think it's better to send my and his application forms together in the same envelope.(but inside, I will separate the two of course) I think it's easier for them to find who's dependent he was in that period. How do you think?
Acutually, the same advisor said that I should send the two application separately. But I feel I don't have to trust her words anymore..
Any suggestion?
Izzy
