Hi everyone,
My partner, a British citizen, and I are thinking to move to UK this year. I'm from Singapore and I'm thinking to apply for the De Factoo Partner Visa(Unmarried Couple). I've read some forums and looked at the UK Border Agency website as well. However, there's something I've seen on the forums which I don't seem to be able to find out more about at the UK Border Agency website or anywhere else. I hope some of you could kindly advice me on some of these questions.
I notice that there's a financial requirements to meet for this application. Just a bit of background information to better understand our standing, my partner and I have been in a relationship for a little over 4 years... We have been living together for 3 years+ and is currently engaged to each other. However, we are not intending to get married for about 2 years. (Need to save for now) I believe we have enough documents to prove our long standing relationship and our desire to marry eventually however, here are just a few of my questions:
1) I've read somewhere in the forum that we need to supply 6 months continuous payslip with the same employer in UK. However, my partner have been living in Singapore all this time, he has only just got a job offer so if I'm just wondering, if it's true and that I have to wait in Singapore alone for him to compile 6 months payslip from the company or can I just provide a copy of his signed contract which states how much he earns? If I were to provide a copy of his contract and evidence of our combined savings to be 10,000 pounds, do you think it's sufficient for the financial requirements documents or are there any other documents I might need to provide?
2)We have a copy of our joint bank account when we first opened it 3 or 2 years back , is that sufficient?
3)We have 2 apartment rental contracts (each for a year), 2010 and 2011, is that enough to prove our living together or do I need to provide more recent ones? As our 3rd year of living together, my name wasn't on the contract and even though it was my money which we used to pay for the deposit, the agent wrote my partner's name instead of mine. I paid for the utility bills for that apartment too but the receipts doesn't even contain my card no. as prove..
I could have his mum to write a letter about us living together with her for about half a year in UK, but the there's about 6 months gap between the 2011 contract and staying with his mum, in which my name isn't written on any paper except I do have phone bills going to that address. Do you think the phone bills would be enough prove that I was living with him for the 6 months in the same apartment? What do you guys think?
That's all I can think of for now that is making me confused about the documents I need to provide. I do hope you guys could advice me on this. Thank you soooo much and any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers! -Sarah
My partner, a British citizen, and I are thinking to move to UK this year. I'm from Singapore and I'm thinking to apply for the De Factoo Partner Visa(Unmarried Couple). I've read some forums and looked at the UK Border Agency website as well. However, there's something I've seen on the forums which I don't seem to be able to find out more about at the UK Border Agency website or anywhere else. I hope some of you could kindly advice me on some of these questions.
I notice that there's a financial requirements to meet for this application. Just a bit of background information to better understand our standing, my partner and I have been in a relationship for a little over 4 years... We have been living together for 3 years+ and is currently engaged to each other. However, we are not intending to get married for about 2 years. (Need to save for now) I believe we have enough documents to prove our long standing relationship and our desire to marry eventually however, here are just a few of my questions:
1) I've read somewhere in the forum that we need to supply 6 months continuous payslip with the same employer in UK. However, my partner have been living in Singapore all this time, he has only just got a job offer so if I'm just wondering, if it's true and that I have to wait in Singapore alone for him to compile 6 months payslip from the company or can I just provide a copy of his signed contract which states how much he earns? If I were to provide a copy of his contract and evidence of our combined savings to be 10,000 pounds, do you think it's sufficient for the financial requirements documents or are there any other documents I might need to provide?
2)We have a copy of our joint bank account when we first opened it 3 or 2 years back , is that sufficient?
3)We have 2 apartment rental contracts (each for a year), 2010 and 2011, is that enough to prove our living together or do I need to provide more recent ones? As our 3rd year of living together, my name wasn't on the contract and even though it was my money which we used to pay for the deposit, the agent wrote my partner's name instead of mine. I paid for the utility bills for that apartment too but the receipts doesn't even contain my card no. as prove..
I could have his mum to write a letter about us living together with her for about half a year in UK, but the there's about 6 months gap between the 2011 contract and staying with his mum, in which my name isn't written on any paper except I do have phone bills going to that address. Do you think the phone bills would be enough prove that I was living with him for the 6 months in the same apartment? What do you guys think?That's all I can think of for now that is making me confused about the documents I need to provide. I do hope you guys could advice me on this. Thank you soooo much and any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers! -Sarah
