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1. You may also have an official letter from HO (UKBA), relating to grant of ILR, that also has a reference number.scooterboy wrote:Hi,
We are just filling out the AN form for my EU wife who is applying under ILR. We had a couple of niggling q's for the forum which I haven't found exact answers for anywhere.
1. On her ILR stamp from 2000, there are 3 numbers (two at the top, left and right) and one on the bottom. Which do we use for the home office reference number in Q1.1? (FWIW The top left is her passport number. The one next to it is a 7-number+ 1letter ref and the bottom one is two letters+3 numbers+3numbers)
2. She is a homemaker/housewife, looking after our 4 children. Although she has an NI she has never worked. How do we best establish that she was here three years prior to the date of application? Options open to us are mortgage statements, bills, carer payment she receives for one of our children. She is EU so there are no stamps in the passport.
3. She will prove language req with a Cambridge Advanced Cert she did in 1997 in her maiden name, before we were married. Is the marriage certificate enough to establish the connection between her two names (only the surname changed)
Thanks for your help.
Mark
We can't find any official grant letters and my wife seems to remember the official keeping the letter when they put the ILR sticker in the passport (it was 15 years ago so she might be mistaken!). The only official letter we have is the one for the FLR(M) grant a couple of years previously. The reference for this was her passport at the time. Obviously we can't use this as it is not ILR. I am guessing the checking clerk will do a copy of the stamp when we submit the form anyway. Just wanted to get that reference numbers right to start with. Thanks again for your help1. You may also have an official letter from HO (UKBA), relating to grant of ILR, that also has a reference number.
It will not be the passport number anyway.
You could enter the most likely one and mention the others in the 'additional information' section.
Thanks for this. The ref number on the FLR(M) did indeed start with my wife's surname as it appeared in her passport at the time. But her surname changed on the next passport and none of the refs on the ILR stamp reflect her surname (one is BM, the other LM). Thanks for the input anyway!yesilgozlerim wrote:For Question 1, The HO reference starts with the initial of surname followed by numbers( as told by NCS) My husband keft it blank but when we received the acknowledgment letter, his HO reference was showing on the letter.
Hi Secret Simon.secret.simon wrote:
3) What is accepted as proof of meeting language requirement is limited, both as to the specific certificate and as to time. You may want to check that a Cambridge Advanced Certificate issued about two decades ago is still recognised as valid by the Home Office here.