Australian with ILR sponsoring American Spouse Visa - Checkl

[Adrian&Adrienne]

Hi all, I am new to posting, but have used this site as a resource through many visas. My partner (and soon to be husband) and I are getting ready to apply for the spouse visa in November. I wanted to double check that we have met all requirements. Below is a brief history of our relationship and a list of all the documents we will be supplying.

He is Australian and lived in London for seven years before being granted indefinite leave to remain in 2013. I am American and have lived in the UK from 2008-2013 on a BUNAC working holiday visa for six months, a student visa for three years and a post study work visa for a year and three months. I have never overstayed any visas. We met in a flat-share in Nov 2009. We were flatmates for five months before we started dating in April 2010. We moved flats and into a shared ensuite room in June 2011. We both love traveling and have been on many trips together.

In October 2013 we moved to Australia for a year to be closer to his father who had cancer. We traveled a bit on the way there. During this year he didn’t work much because he was spending time with family. We lived off savings and my income. We decided to move back to London at the end of my year long Australian visa. His father was in remission and London was a better fit for us for a variety of reasons, including the life we had cultivated there.

I left Australia in January because my visa was due to expire. His brother was due to have a son in March, so he stayed until the baby was born. He then moved back to London and freelanced until beginning a full time contracted, salaried job on 5 May. He is working at the same place he worked at before we left. He earns £40,000 a year. Since I was unable to move back to London with him initially due to the financial threshold I moved to Berlin, where I could get a three month tourist visa and a three month language learning visa. This allowed us to visit each other in April, May, and August. The time zone also made it easier to stay in regular contact. I then returned to the US to wait until he was at his job for six months and we could apply.

We are getting married in Denmark on 2 November. It will be just the two of us because with all the moving around and visa stuff it was too difficult to plan a wedding across three different continents. We chose Denmark because it it the least complicated of all our various options. We will have a proper reception next year once things have settled down.

One non-document related question I have is the application asks for my NHS number which I do not know off the top of my head and my NHS card is in a box in storage in London. Does anyone know how I can find this out since I am unable to go to my GP and ask for it?

Here is a list of all of our documents

APPLICANT
Current passport
All of my old passports, visas and biometrics card
2 passport size photo’s
Letter from me

SPONSOR
Certified copy of his passport and visa
Letter of Sponsorship

HOUSING
House inspection certificate
Copy of his lease
Photos of flat
Letter from Landlord saying I can live there (is this necessary?)

EMPOLYMENT | FINACIAL
Letter from his employer confirming the employment and annual salary, length of employment
Signed contract of employment
Bank statements

RELATIONSHIP PROOF
- Marriage Certificate
- No impediment to marriage form for him (required for Australians to be married in Denmark, but not for Americans)
- Handwritten letters from his mom and my parents
- Our previous leases in London and Australia
- 6-10 Photos of us from each year of our relationship, including us together and us with each others families and friends.
- Wedding pictures
- Selection of emails from anytime we have traveled separately and others to show a long history of a loving relationship relationship.
- iMessage log from this year along with a selection of conversations.
- All tickets from flights together and flights to see each other this year.

Thanks in advance for all help and advice!