Difference between Spouse and Fiancee visa.

[Aleksas]

When applying for a Fiance(e) visa, does one have to provide proof of 6 months bank statements etc, like with a Spouse visa, or are the requirements less strict, seeing you only need to proove ou can support yourself for 6 months on a fiancee visa, and not a full sustainable life for a Spouse visa?

For accommodation it states for a fiance(e) that:

there is somewhere for you and your dependants to live until you get married or register a civil partnership, and you will be able to live without help from public funds, and

and for a spouse:

you have suitable accommodation, which is owned or lived in only by you and your household, and where you and your dependants can live without any help from public funds

Does this mean that a fiance(e) could live anywhere, be it with his/her partners parents, a hotel, or any other kind of accommodation?

Lex.

[John]

These are both types of settlement visa and the requirements are basically the same ..... except of course for a spouse visa only there is a requirement to supply the marriage certificate.

As regards accommodation, after marriage the couple are expected to live together. Prior to marriage there is certainly no compulsion for them to live together and of course in some cultures that would be unthinkable.

But in both cases the accommodation needs to be "suitable" and certainly not overcrowded.