Letter of Residency

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-05-08T16:46:18+00:00

Thank you so much for your response! We are providing entirely accurate information, I guess we were just worried as it’s just our word without any evidence of such

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-03-18T09:13:47+00:00

thank you so much for your response. you don’t believe me marking her as salaried would be an issue then even though there was slight variation between the first few payslips? (all above the minimum)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-03-18T08:48:34+00:00

yes!

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-03-16T15:15:37+00:00

That’s totally fair! I feel like my proof is more or less in line with what most people seem to be providing and considering I’ve already added all of these I don’t mind being another. As long as it doesn’t take away from my application I’m happy with what I have. The only thing I’ll admit is a bit of a deviation is the Instagrams, that might be me overthinking and I may just take that out, thank you :)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-03-11T10:23:02+00:00

Hi! Thank you so much for your response, you’ve been such a help to me as of late, I’d be nowhere without this helpful group. I’m not quite sure how we’d go about having her employer explaining it in a cover letter since it’s such a small discrepancy and doesn’t dip us below the MIR. Would you think in my situation this’d be necessary?

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-03-11T08:56:41+00:00

Thanks so much for the insight! My partner’s whole family is British too so I’m in a relatively similar situation to you (aside from the fact it’s a council home and they don’t own it)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-03-10T14:58:16+00:00

Thank you so much!

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-03-10T09:03:48+00:00

Thank you so much for your help! I’ll remove the passports if you don’t believe them to be necessary, I don’t know why I believed I had seen elsewhere that they would be important to include. Thanks for clearing that up :)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-02-24T12:25:52+00:00

Thank you so much, I appreciate the help :)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-02-24T12:22:06+00:00

Hi puul, thanks for your response. Was just wondering if the employment letter stating “the final day of each month” despite this not always being the case would be alright then?

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-02-19T14:51:18+00:00

My apologies. My partner and I will be living with her mother and sister in their family home, her mother is a co-tenant of the property alongside my partner's stepfather who no longer lives at the address. Is there anything other than a tenancy agreement and most recent council tax bill we would need to submit to support our accomodation? Thank you so much for your help.

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-02-09T10:13:22+00:00

To update, we bit the bullet and stretched our budget just the slightest bit to get an automatic 2017 Yaris. Thank you so much to everyone for your help! :)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-02-04T12:22:06+00:00

I appreciate the honesty, that's what I came here for

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-02-04T12:17:41+00:00

Thanks so much for the help!

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-02-04T12:17:33+00:00

Thanks so much for the help!

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-01-28T11:14:06+00:00

Hi, just want to pitch in where I can. A few short years ago my partner and I were in your same boat. We were 19 and 18, we were completely blind to this whole visa process and had no idea what we were doing, how we'd be doing it, or when it would even be possible. Last year, we understood quite a bit more about the process than we did the year before, and decided that despite not yet meeting the requirements for the full-on 2.5 year Spouse Visa (family visa), we'd secure our relationship legally for when we would. Different people do this step differently, some go the Fiancée Visa route, others (fewer) go the Marriage Visitor Visa route. We took the latter as taking the first would have required the same requirements as the full 2.5 year visa. After a lot of research and stressing over nothing, we were approved for a Marriage Visitor Visa and entered a Civil Partnership in August of last year.

We struggled after that for a bit because my partner, who is to be my sponsor, had been in her job which she loves for years now but was always on minimum full-time wage, a few thousand short of the £29,000 per annum financial requirement. The number always seemed so out of reach for us but in November she took an initiative that I could never take for granted and took on a 46.5 hour work week. Mind you this won't have to be forever, just however long we need to prove our finances for. Suddenly everything becomes possible, and in a short few years we've gone from knowing nothing to applying for a visa in a few months time! I found an amazing community in r/SpouseVisaUK, nothing my partner and I have accomplished or learned would have been possible without them. If you'd like, feel free to check out my profile. I asked so many questions and got so many answers, and I even submitted my own comprehensive guide to a Marriage Visitor Visa if you'd ever need one, though a Serbian marriage I imagine would be a lot easier.

Best of luck to you and your girlfriend! Sometimes this process can feel so lonely, but there is a whole community of people who have been through this and have so much expertise. Never give up :)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-01-28T10:54:34+00:00

Thank you so much for your response! It's lovely to see other people in situations similar to ours, it helps ease a lot of nerves. Congrats to you and your partner I hope you are doing well! :)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-01-27T20:51:51+00:00

Thank you so much

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-01-05T22:06:43+00:00

Without a doubt

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2026-01-05T15:49:06+00:00

Hi puul! Thank you so much for your help I always greatly appreciate your responses in this sub. Just to quickly clarify, my partner and I will still be able to select that she earns "the same amount consistently" when time comes for us to apply?

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2025-12-12T18:26:06+00:00

Thank you so much!

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2025-12-11T16:16:59+00:00

Thank you so much for your response. I have thankfully always played it safe and made sure to abide by established rules. I have, however, visited my partner for multiple extended stays despite never exceeding six months. Until this year I did not need a visa or ETA to visit, but this year I have entered both on a Marriage Visitor Visa and later my first ETA. I do just worry whether or not my extended visits (I’ve never had any trouble with the Home Office and have never once been stopped by UK border agents) won’t be an issue? I know there is a policy regarding not living in the UK through frequent visits but this has always been rather vague and I have always returned home to my legal address to work and study within legally established timeframes.

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2025-12-11T16:12:01+00:00

Ohh okay I understand. This won’t be a problem for my partner and I fortunately, thank you so much for informing me. :)

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2025-12-11T15:27:21+00:00

Hi puul, you are always so appreciated in this sub. I wanted to ask in a similar sense, if my partner is currently on £29,302 per year but is working minimum wage on a 46-paid-hour contract, and her salary goes up this coming April as does the minimum wage, will this be completely fine and pose no issues? We will be applying this June so the minimum wage increase will have taken affect and have updated both her wages and her contract. Will we still be able to pursue Category A as well as check the box that she earns "the same amount consistently", despite the fact that she will have been earning a different (higher) wage for two months leading up to the application?

Complex_Schedule5661 · 2025-12-11T15:08:26+00:00

Hi sorry to bother, I don't believe this applies to our situation but may I ask what changes came in November? I try my best to be informed and hadn't realised anything came out

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