Bank statements for last 5 years

[the_pious]

Hi,

I am non-EU working on stamp 4, and my wife is here with me on Stamp 3 (dependant on me). We both have applied for naturalization recently after completing 5 years of residency in Ireland. Today we received a letter from INIS asking my wife to provide 6 months bank statement for each of the last 5 years such that each statement shows that the account has been used for daily transactions. She does have a bank account since last 5 years, but until 4 months back she never used that for daily transactions. This means that we do not have the document they are asking us to provide for my wife.

She did use her account for a few monthly transaction starting around May 2017, and we have already provided INIS with those statements in her original application.

Can anyone suggest how we should proceed now? What we should provide to INIS, and how we should respond back?

Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

Best Regards.

[griffith]

They sent the letter only requesting the bank statements or something else too? Have they given you any other options by which i mean if the statememts are not available?

[the_pious]

They have requested the following two things:

- Bank statement covering six month for each year showing day to day transactions
- Letter from the doctor saying you registered for the surgery and the date that you attended. (This is simple, we have talked to our GP and should be getting letters for this)

They didn't mention anything that we can send instead of above document. They just say that if these documents are not received then it means that you are no longer interested in pursuing your application and that the application would be considered abandoned.

Please let me know what can we do in this case. We thought that we had a very straight forward case, but now they are asking for something which we can't provide.

Thanks

[griffith]

People dont necessarily use their card on a day to day basis so daily transactions may not be obtained. If i were you i would just simply write them that your wife does have a bank account but she hasn't used it in last 5 years as she depends on you and you afford all the expenses.
By the way if you have all your documents in hand than you should get your passport first and meanwhile apply a 10 years visa for your wife and apply for her passport at a later stage as their is a requirement of bank statement of the applicant.

[Ali0857]

Wht i will suggest tha send it as many years you can cover ... jus asked the bank to send you the statements for the time she was usin the account and write a letter about explainin the missin years statement. Explain thm why she wasn't using it .

If she was workin that time so get her old payslips.

.. im sure its na somthin they will maKe a big fuss about ...

[Ali0857]

Sorry as u said she was on stamp 3 so she is not allowed to work .so payslips is not the option..but as the brother said write them a letter

Good luck

[sousa020290]

Some idiots are working in immigration to ruin genuine applicants. Who do transaction everyday ???? Only idiots like them.

[Ali0857]

Some idiots are working in immigration to ruin genuine applicants. Who do transaction everyday ???? Only idiots like them.

Yaa and specially when the person is on Stamp 3 and not even allowed to work ...

[sousa020290]

Some idiots are working in immigration to ruin genuine applicants. Who do transaction everyday ???? Only idiots like them.

Yaa and specially when the person is on Stamp 3 and not even allowed to work ...

Idiot officers must be kick out from inis. Those idiots approving fake cases....

[the_pious]

So, what is the right approach that we should take here? Should we consult an immigration lawyer for this or should we prepare a response (without solicitor) and send it to INIS?

I think the bigger question to answer is the following: What do people do if they can't provide what INIS is asking for? In our case, it is the statement with day to day transactions, but in other cases it may be some other document. I am interested to know how do people response to INIS if they can't provide what INIS is asking for.

Thanks.

[griffith]

Their is a requirement of applicants bank statement but not sure why they have asked you for last 5 years day to day transactions. You should consult a lawyer and they should write a letter explaining that bank account does exist but not maintained in last 5 years. It doesn't look like that by not providing day to day transactions application will get refused(not everyone can provide day to day transactions its insane, no one is that rich spending money on a day to day basis)
In my opinion EU3 is your last resort.