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Completely irrelevant. Home office doesnt accept any bank or card statenents for citizenship applications. Stop giving false information
Proving presence in the UK at the start of the qualifying period and proof of living in the UK are not the same thing. These are two distinct requirements and one has nothing to do with the other, i.e. both must be met separately.
@dexmo - you may be right but I am not aware of the relaxed attitude of the HO you refer to in this regard. From Guide AN:
Submitting the evidence certainly won't hurt but is not required which is why UKVI don't normally ask for any evidence relating to this. The requirement is met with a simple declaration. Members on here who have reported getting an email from UKVI asking them to re-declare the date of their application because they've not realised one of their declared absences had fallen on the date their qualifying period started have so far, in all cases, just been asked to re-declare the application date. We've yet to hear of any cases where UKVI have actually asked for evidence of physical presence at the start of the qualifying period.manci wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:10 am@dexmo - you may be right but I am not aware of the relaxed attitude of the HO you refer to in this regard. From Guide AN:
Most applications that fail do so because applicants have applied even though they
cannot satisfy the residence requirement to be present in the UK at the beginning
of the residential qualifying period.
Not to risk refusal I would suggest that applicants should always submit evidence of their physical presence in the UK on the day at the start of the qualifying period.
The discussion did get carried away a bit. To answer the original query, in absence of a passport or travel document covering the whole of the qualifying period applicants whose passports don't get stamped on arrival in UK (EU nationals for example) should indeed submit other evidence such as employer's letter, P60s or tax and national insurance letter. If the OP wouldn't like to ask the employer for a letter I would suggest requesting employment history or tax and national insurance confirmation from HMRC.manci wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:25 amFor the record, the OP's original question was about proof of residence in view of the loss of one of his passports which covered the early part of the qualifying period. I referred him to points 21 and 56 in Vinny's post but also drew his attention to the additional requirement of having to prove physical presence in the UK on the day at the start of the qualifying period.
We don't know the details of the OP's circumstances but from his original post (above) it may be that the lost passport is not an issue at all if he can use a qualifying period starting 21/07/2016