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A partner is not a girlfriend, a partner is someone in a relationship 'akin to marriage' (for 2 years or more).kr1s wrote:Hi.
I'm hoping someone here will be able to help.
I have done a search and couldn't easily find the answer already on here.
I am a UK national. My girlfriend is Chinese and has been living with me in UK since February 2014 under a Tier 4 study visa. (She is studying full time for an ACCA qualification).
That visa will expire in October this year and we would like to apply for a partner visa for her.
My question is: Can this be done from within the UK and if so, which would be the correct form? (All of the info I have found assumes that if applying for leave to remain as a partner, you are already here as a partner, not a student).
Also, is there any reason we can't apply now - a partner visa would be beneficial to her as soon as possible as it would allow her to work, which her study visa does not.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Chris
Yes, this will be a problem. HO want to see documentary evidence of cohabitation in a 'relationship akin to marriage' for a minimum of 2 years. This is the most important aspect you/she have to meet in order to apply for an unmarried partner visa.The correspondence we have is not as evenly spread as would have been ideal, with nothing addressed to her in 2015. Do you happen to know whether this is likely to cause a problem?
Not in the immediate future.Do you have any plans to marry??
They need to be originals.kr1s wrote:Anyone got any idea whether the email prints are likely to be a problem?
The form states in one place that all documents must be original otherwise the application is likely to be rejected, and somewhere else that if copies are used a cover letter should be included to explain why.
We can do this but would like some idea how likely we are to be wasting our application fee.