Applying for ILR SET M HELP PLEASE

[zinedine]

I am a british Citizen and have been married for over 4 years to my husband who is currenlty completing his 2 years in the uk and will apply for ILR.


My questions are:

1. Does the homeoffice look faviourably on our relationship as we have been married for 4 years and lived together in the uk for 2.

2. My bank statements are still currently under my mothers address as we stayed there briefly before getting our own place.

3. I do not have the last bank statements as i transfered my statements to online. i Called the bank to order them and they have still not arrived.

4. I work full time and also claim tax credits, will this be an issue

5. My husband has been unable to find work and so has been looking after our son.

6. He has passed the Life in the UK test

7. we have gathered as much evidence as possible but we do not have everything in both our names except for council tax bills, tenancy agreements and NHS excemption certificate cards which i recieved while i was on maternity.

Could we be refused, If we are what would we need to do?

[Dr Logic]

I am a british Citizen and have been married for over 4 years to my husband who is currenlty completing his 2 years in the uk and will apply for ILR.


My questions are:

1. Does the homeoffice look faviourably on our relationship as we have been married for 4 years and lived together in the uk for 2.

Yes they will look your relationship.

2. My bank statements are still currently under my mothers address as we stayed there briefly before getting our own place.

Does not matter, you have to explain this to HO. BUT you can not provide this as prove of your current living address.

3. I do not have the last bank statements as i transfered my statements to online. i Called the bank to order them and they have still not arrived.

you can get a printout from bank and request bank staff to sign and stamp it.

4. I work full time and also claim tax credits, will this be an issue

does not understand. If you worked full time ( earn more than 14000) how can you get tax credit?

5. My husband has been unable to find work and so has been looking after our son.
he should work. if he could not find job than a sponsor letter for any relative that they will support you and your husband if you need, until your husband gets job.

6. He has passed the Life in the UK test
very good, this compulsory for ilr

7. we have gathered as much evidence as possible but we do not have everything in both our names except for council tax bills, tenancy agreements and NHS excemption certificate cards which i recieved while i was on maternity.

Your husband can get a letter from his GP, confirming he is registered with them.

Could we be refused, If we are what would we need to do?

Pls find the answers above.
Hope for the best. And get as many as letter possible.

Good Luck

[John]

zinedine, using your numbering :-

1. The evidence you will provide will prove that the marriage is real, and not a marriage of convenience. The fact that the marriage happened 4 years ago, does not in itself prove the marriage is real.
2. Clearly you can't use those bank statements as they do nothing to prove the two of you live together.
3. See 2 above.
4. No problem you claiming Tax Credits, and no doubt Child Benefit as well. And of course an entitlement to Child Tax Credit unless the family income is nicely over £50K pa
5. No problem, there is no requirement for him to work in paid employment. If he is a house-husband, no problem.
6. Great!
7. No problem, and a careful read of the form will show that nothing needs to be in joint name. When my own wife applied for her ILR nothing was in joint names, but ILR granted with no problem.

[paul4uinuk]

My questions are:

1. Does the homeoffice look faviourably on our relationship as we have been married for 4 years and lived together in the uk for 2.

Ans: Need Evidence of Cohabitation for the last two years
This can be in joints name, or in separate name provided they are in same address covering the 2 years period.
Nature of documents are explained in SET (M) Form.

2. My bank statements are still currently under my mothers address as we stayed there briefly before getting our own place.

Ans: Presume, you have been living with your mother, which is not a problems, ask your mother to write a letter to HO and confirm that.

3. I do not have the last bank statements as i transfered my statements to online. i Called the bank to order them and they have still not arrived.

if possible, get print out of Internet Statement and ask banker to sign on it, you need last 3 months statement. last three months payslip can be used as supplimentary evidence of income.

4. I work full time and also claim tax credits, will this be an issue

Not at all. Link is very useful to understand this issue
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitec ... cfunds.pdf


5. My husband has been unable to find work and so has been looking after our son.

Need to prove that your joint income is good enough to maintain your family. One can be out of work.

6. He has passed the Life in the UK test


7. we have gathered as much evidence as possible but we do not have everything in both our names except for council tax bills, tenancy agreements and NHS excemption certificate cards which i recieved while i was on maternity.

those can be used as Evidence of Cohabitation, need 3 more.


Could we be refused, If we are what would we need to do?

Refuse!!!, No way, Concentrate on Evidence of Cohabitation. get 6 letters .

[sameer9966]

hi all,


can u pls advice me how to spread 6 letters over 2 yrs if we leave together in 1 address for 7month and both moved to another address and leaving since 17month.

PLS ADVICE HOW SHALL I SPREAD THE 6 LETTERS.

THANKs,

[Dr Logic]

hi all,


can u pls advice me how to spread 6 letters over 2 yrs if we leave together in 1 address for 7month and both moved to another address and leaving since 17month.

PLS ADVICE HOW SHALL I SPREAD THE 6 LETTERS.

THANKs,

Hi,

After every 4 month you have to have a letter ( as HO requested 6 letters for 2 years ) however they will request more if you use premium service. More letters mean divide after every 3 month.

[nellis83]

hi all,


can u pls advice me how to spread 6 letters over 2 yrs if we leave together in 1 address for 7month and both moved to another address and leaving since 17month.

PLS ADVICE HOW SHALL I SPREAD THE 6 LETTERS.

THANKs,

Hi,

After every 4 month you have to have a letter ( as HO requested 6 letters for 2 years ) however they will request more if you use premium service. More letters mean divide after every 3 month.

Sorry, long time reader but had to register to refute this - there is no need to have letters spaced exactly 4 months apart - a reasonable spread over the 2 years covering all addresses you've lived at is sufficient.

Also, Dr Logic, your earlier comment saying that the husband has to work is incorrect. As long as the family income is sufficient to support themselves there is no need for both partners to work.

[zinedine]

Thanks for the quick responses. I have taken eveythibg into consideration and i am still concerned about my bank statements. Due to the fact that the properties that me and my husband rented were shared i felt it was risky to change my details over so kept my statements going to my mothers address.

Please guys what can i do to explain this to HO and not cause any speculations for my husbands ILR

[Dr Logic]

hi all,


can u pls advice me how to spread 6 letters over 2 yrs if we leave together in 1 address for 7month and both moved to another address and leaving since 17month.

PLS ADVICE HOW SHALL I SPREAD THE 6 LETTERS.

THANKs,

Hi,

After every 4 month you have to have a letter ( as HO requested 6 letters for 2 years ) however they will request more if you use premium service. More letters mean divide after every 3 month.

Sorry, long time reader but had to register to refute this - there is no need to have letters spaced exactly 4 months apart - a reasonable spread over the 2 years covering all addresses you've lived at is sufficient.

Also, Dr Logic, your earlier comment saying that the husband has to work is incorrect. As long as the family income is sufficient to support themselves there is no need for both partners to work.

nellis83 'Long time reader' if there's no need to spaced exactly 3/4 months than how would you maintain reasonable gap btw the letters?

Could you explain what is a reasonable spread over 2 years ( bear in mind HO is only interested to see 6 letters ( if joint name on it ) over the period of two years )?

For your kind information I did not say Her husband 'HAS TO WORK'. I advised he 'SHOULD WORK'. There's lot difference between 'Should' and 'HAS TO'. You can have a good look on my previous post.

[nellis83]

nellis83 'Long time reader' if there's no need to spaced exactly 3/4 months than how would you maintain reasonable gap btw the letters?

Could you explain what is a reasonable spread over 2 years ( bear in mind HO is only interested to see 6 letters ( if joint name on it ) over the period of two years )?

For your kind information I did not say Her husband 'HAS TO WORK'. I advised he 'SHOULD WORK'. There's lot difference between 'Should' and 'HAS TO'. You can have a good look on my previous post.

Why should he work? If the other partner is earning enough money to support the relationship there is no requirement for him to work.

On the subject of the letters, if you have a large number of letters to choose from then sure, spaced every 4 months is ideal. But I'm sure that many are in the same boat as me in that we deal with a lot of companies (gas, electric etc) online so the number of letters received isn't that high.

As I previously wrote, as long as all your addresses are covered and they are reasonably spaced over the 2 years you won't have a prob. Saying they need to be spaced 'exactly x months apart' is wrong.

I felt compelled to post as I thought your comments would cause completely unnecessary worry to the poster. I don't want to hijack this thread so this is the last post I'll make on the subject.

[mochyn]

nellis83 'Long time reader' if there's no need to spaced exactly 3/4 months than how would you maintain reasonable gap btw the letters?

Could you explain what is a reasonable spread over 2 years ( bear in mind HO is only interested to see 6 letters ( if joint name on it ) over the period of two years )?

For your kind information I did not say Her husband 'HAS TO WORK'. I advised he 'SHOULD WORK'. There's lot difference between 'Should' and 'HAS TO'. You can have a good look on my previous post.

Why should he work? If the other partner is earning enough money to support the relationship there is no requirement for him to work.

On the subject of the letters, if you have a large number of letters to choose from then sure, spaced every 4 months is ideal. But I'm sure that many are in the same boat as me in that we deal with a lot of companies (gas, electric etc) online so the number of letters received isn't that high.

As I previously wrote, as long as all your addresses are covered and they are reasonably spaced over the 2 years you won't have a prob. Saying they need to be spaced 'exactly x months apart' is wrong.

I felt compelled to post as I thought your comments would cause completely unnecessary worry to the poster. I don't want to hijack this thread so this is the last post I'll make on the subject.

Well said Nellis

[zinedine]

Hi John


Thank you for the helpand assistance you provided. I wanted to ask again about the bank statements. You say not to use them as they do nothing to prove that we live together. should we then not at all hand the bank statements in? and if not wouldnt this be another problem the HO will have with our application.

Would a cover letter explaining this be any useful?

Thank you again

[John]

As I understand it, and do correct me if I am wrong, your bank statements for much of the last two years have been addressed to somewhere where neither of you live, so in order to prove that the two of you have been living together they are useless.

However as part of the financial test, to show that the visa applicant will not need to claim certain Public Funds, yes the bank statements will be required.

[Dr Logic]

nellis83 'Long time reader' if there's no need to spaced exactly 3/4 months than how would you maintain reasonable gap btw the letters?

Could you explain what is a reasonable spread over 2 years ( bear in mind HO is only interested to see 6 letters ( if joint name on it ) over the period of two years )?

For your kind information I did not say Her husband 'HAS TO WORK'. I advised he 'SHOULD WORK'. There's lot difference between 'Should' and 'HAS TO'. You can have a good look on my previous post.

Why should he work? If the other partner is earning enough money to support the relationship there is no requirement for him to work.

On the subject of the letters, if you have a large number of letters to choose from then sure, spaced every 4 months is ideal. But I'm sure that many are in the same boat as me in that we deal with a lot of companies (gas, electric etc) online so the number of letters received isn't that high.

As I previously wrote, as long as all your addresses are covered and they are reasonably spaced over the 2 years you won't have a prob. Saying they need to be spaced 'exactly x months apart' is wrong.

I felt compelled to post as I thought your comments would cause completely unnecessary worry to the poster. I don't want to hijack this thread so this is the last post I'll make on the subject.

nellis83, what do you mean by this ''he should not work''? What if her wife losses the job by any chance ( its normal now a days dont ask why ) before ILR application?

I am still not impressed on your letter division theory. Have a good look on my previous post.

[Dr Logic]

nellis83 'Long time reader' if there's no need to spaced exactly 3/4 months than how would you maintain reasonable gap btw the letters?

Could you explain what is a reasonable spread over 2 years ( bear in mind HO is only interested to see 6 letters ( if joint name on it ) over the period of two years )?

For your kind information I did not say Her husband 'HAS TO WORK'. I advised he 'SHOULD WORK'. There's lot difference between 'Should' and 'HAS TO'. You can have a good look on my previous post.

Why should he work? If the other partner is earning enough money to support the relationship there is no requirement for him to work.

On the subject of the letters, if you have a large number of letters to choose from then sure, spaced every 4 months is ideal. But I'm sure that many are in the same boat as me in that we deal with a lot of companies (gas, electric etc) online so the number of letters received isn't that high.

As I previously wrote, as long as all your addresses are covered and they are reasonably spaced over the 2 years you won't have a prob. Saying they need to be spaced 'exactly x months apart' is wrong.

I felt compelled to post as I thought your comments would cause completely unnecessary worry to the poster. I don't want to hijack this thread so this is the last post I'll make on the subject.

Well said Nellis

Come on Dont say well done 'Dr Logic'.

[paccman]

hi all,


can u pls advice me how to spread 6 letters over 2 yrs if we leave together in 1 address for 7month and both moved to another address and leaving since 17month.

PLS ADVICE HOW SHALL I SPREAD THE 6 LETTERS.

THANKs,

Try to give a lot more than 6, we gave them around 60 letters spread over every month of the last two years . ILR granted in 30 days

[zinedine]

Hi everyone,

thanks for the advice and help received, we got ilr granted and made sure we took as much information as possible. No problems with the bank statements and benefit which I'm happy about. Once again thank you, next step citizenship wohooo