Anyway, my wife received her ILR on Monday from PEO Solihull. Fairly painless procedure. Yet again, they weren't interested in statements for savings accounts or payslips, just 3 months bank statements.
When it came to evidence, we put together 20 individual letters (all were in joint names) from 7 different sources:
* Gas and Electric (3 letters each - 6 letters)
* Water (2 letters)
* Council Tax (2 letters)
* Tenancy agreement (we live in private rented accomodation) (3 contracts)
* House Insurance (Year 1) - (2 letters)
* House Insurance (Year 2, change of provider) - (1 letter)
* Joint bank account (we just used this to pay food bills so we could keep our own accounts and have another piece of joint evidence) - (4 letters)
We clipped the evidence together, with the letters in chronological order and a front sheet with a table (months on the side and evidence type along the top) and ticks showing that the evidence was spread fairly evenly across the 2 years. The officer was pleased with this as "it made her life a little easier".
I was quite surprised at how thin the evidence ended up being (even so, I had every other letter we collected in a different folder in my bag, just in case!
)Interestingly, she asked whether we had applied for a COA and when we said "Yes", she said "Oh yes, I can see it on the screen". Not sure why the procedure is telling her to ask this at SET(M) stage...
She asked the standard questions, told us to pay at the counter. Unfortunately, as it was the last session in the afternoon and it was getting late, they didn't have time to print the visa itself. So they sent the passport back the next day using Special Delivery and it arrived this morning
