Double room in shared home to meet accomodation requirement

[seagul]

Hi all
If a person living in a three bedroom house where different other tenants too living but has got a separate double room there for his exclusively used only share toilets & cooking place with other tenants. Then can it meet accommodation requirement to sponsor foreign spouse into UK?? If yes then usually what documents should be to support the accommodation requirement???

[seagul]

[Casa]

It depends on how many other tenants are living in the property. For multiple occupancy an accommodation report would be advisable to confirm no overcrowding.

[seagul]

Thanks for reply. Does inspection report is mandatory to be done by relevant council or any street estate agency can do as an alternate? And if all bills included in rent then still any utility bill/council tax bill need?

[Casa]

A High Street Estate Agent would be able to provide one for a fee. You'll need to show some form of document as proof of address.

[seagul]

A High Street Estate Agent would be able to provide one for a fee. You'll need to show some form of document as proof of address.

Can these proof of addresses be bank statements & driving licence etc instead utility bills??

[Casa]

Yes if you don't have utility bills. Do you have a written rental agreement? You'll also need a letter from the landlord agreeing to your spouse living there.

[seagul]

Yes if you don't have utility bills. Do you have a written rental agreement? You'll also need a letter from the landlord agreeing to your spouse living there.

So on this scenario the tenancy agreement, letter from landlord permitting the foreign partner to live and estate agency inspection report will be fine??

[Casa]

Yes if you don't have utility bills. Do you have a written rental agreement? You'll also need a letter from the landlord agreeing to your spouse living there.

So on this scenario the tenancy agreement, letter from landlord permitting the foreign partner to live and estate agency inspection report will be fine??

Good to go.

[seagul]

But how about if other tenants don't provide their passort numbers which the spouse visa application asks then if such column is left blank then will this affect the application even if the landlord permission letter and property inspection report confirming suitable accommodation is attached? Does mentioning the passport numbers of other tenants living in house is mandatory?

[seagul]

Why giving passport numbers of other tenants in sharing accomodation is mandatory when they are not comfortable in giving. Isn't any escape of this if all other required documents like landlord permission letter, house inspection report, proof of address are attached.

[vinny]

Although inspection reports are not mandatory, I think that landlord requires the passport information from their tenants when the landlord performs the immigration right to rent checks.

[seagul]

You are right that landlord has to perform passport check of tenants but a tenant in property cannot perform that passport check on other tenants. So if a tenant is sponsoring his partner then can't he leave passport numbers of other tenants on the basis of data protection/individual secrecy etc.

[vinny]

Why do you think that a tenant must supply other tenants' passports information?

[seagul]

That's what I am asking that if a sponsor is living in a shared home and that home is fully suitable to live and is not overcrowded and is supplying all documents to prove that then why the sponsor who himself a tenant not landlord should give passport numbers of others living in the house which application form asks. So does leaving blank the passport information on application form can affect?

[vinny]

What is the application form and what question asks for other tenants' passports?

[seagul]

This question is on appendix 2 page 04 where it ask that anyone else live in that house? There it ask about the name, age, relationship and passport number of others tenants.

[vinny]

Put "unknown" if you do not know the answer?