Utility bills in Marriage Visa application

[vish16]

Hi all,

My background: I am british citizen, married to a girl from India and want to call her over here to UK. I have sent over all the appropriate docs including wages slip, house documents, bank statment etc for the Marriage Visa application.
However I live with my parents and all utility bills are in my parent’s name.

I have the following Questions:
Q1: How vital are utility bills to the Marriage Visa Application?
Q2: Can I send utility bills that have my parent’s name to India?
Q3: What alternatives to the utility bill can I send to India (examples please if possible)?

Many thanks for your help that you might provide.

[MWazir]

I would suggest the following:

1)Your wage slips (the last 6 months) plus contract of employment
2)Bank statements
3)Marriage certficate
3) Your Passport copy of relevant pages
4) Letter from your parents stating that you are living with them and they will accomodate you and your spouse, i.e you will have your own room. If they are tenants, then provide the tenancy agreement else copy of the house documents.
If you are not renting the property or owning it, then you will not have utility bills and it should not be held against you. What they need to be assured of is that you or your spouse will not be claiming benefits to live in the country. This in my opinion should be suffcient. Have it well documented before going to the consulate.

[MWazir]

Ran a quick search on google for you...

Check these links, they delibrate pretty much the same point:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/archive/t-170686.html
http://britishexpats.com/forum/archive/t-199784.html

Additionally run a search on this forum for "spouse settlement visa". There were plenty of such topics.

Good luck.