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by PnOedOff » Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:18 am
So happy and relieved its taken a long time, we've been apart for a year now, in fact the visa was granted on the day that made it exactly one year! weird or what. So any way heres a little list of what was in there:
-Emails and phone records from 2006-present, wisely my husband told me to keep these so I had all the originals to show contact from then til now.
-Flight information and even the bus ticket I used for my first trip to meet my husband over seas in 2007
-Bank statements for the last 10 months, I had no savings and the money I was earning barely stayed in my bank, but I was working full time and earning enough I guess.
-Pay slips for 5 months plus P60 for the last tax year.
-For accomodation I was staying at my grandmothers, she has a house and only her staying there, so I sent phone bills and bank statements with that address, as well as electoral roll registration information.
-Wedding and babys birth certficate as well as a baptism certificate that we had done in my husbands country.
-Loads of pictures of us together as well as his family to show his family had met mine when they came here this year.
-An absolute load of phone cards I'd used to be calling him since we have been apart as well as recent phone bills for the contuining devotion part of it.
Thats a short list but thats pretty much the basics. In all I think it helped that we had met, I had lived with him outside the UK for 2 years, my passport in my married name was actually issued in his country and I have a residents visa for there.
I don't know what checks they actually did as work never said anything to me, and they didn't contact me throughout, but thankfully it all went well in the end. Hope all of you can say the same very soon!
