NHS Surcharge for Partner Visa?

[peekingduck]

Hi all.

Apologies for probably discussing something that has been discussed to death, but I just can't seem to find any definitive answer.

My partner (Korean) and I (English, UK) will be applying for an unmarried partner visa in the next few days, we've collected all the evidence we have and the final part was getting our historical council tax bills. However, I've just spoken to the council and they have told me that, even though my partner was added as a person living in the apartment, she was never added to the bill because she wasn't on the tenancy agreement at the time. Strangely, they never asked me for the tenancy agreement, so I just assumed when I asked them to add her and declared I was no longer allowed to receive the 25% discount she would have been added as a bill holder.

Anyways, to cut the long story short, I can't get these bills now, as they simply say my name - so my question is, are the council tax bills required? If not, then we have provided multiple joint name letters, but many of them are for several months, not an entire two years, most of the companies (utilities included) didn't send monthly bills...

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

P.S Any suggestions for other, proof of living together documentation would be appreciated!

[seagul]

Council tax bill alone is not mandatory but usually it work well with tenancy agreement & landlord NOC letter to meet accomodation requirement. If you have other documents in joint named then council tax may not be needed. Usually for unmarried partner visa HO rigouroulsy check the documents.

[peekingduck]

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I can imagine, it's pretty frustrating as I thought the council tax was fine, but obviously not. We do have letters from the new council tax since we moved in July 2018, but that's less than a year. We have other joint named stuff (Gym, utility bills) but not a huge amount, we have loads of photographs, messages, plane tickets throughout the past 5 years, heck we lived in South Korea together for two years!

[CR001]

Yeah, I can imagine, it's pretty frustrating as I thought the council tax was fine, but obviously not. We do have letters from the new council tax since we moved in July 2018, but that's less than a year.

You can of course submit documents in a single name too!!

We have other joint named stuff (Gym, utility bills) but not a huge amount, we have loads of photographs, messages, plane tickets throughout the past 5 years, heck we lived in South Korea together for two years!

HO won't be interested in the highlighted stuff above. They want to see evidence of joint commitments and financial commitments and 'living in a relationship akin to marriage'.

The 2 year rock solid evidence is mandatory, there is no discretion on this and these visas are heavily scrutinised.

The FLR(M) archived paper form in link below tells you what HO expects to see. Page 63/64.

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov ... -form-flrm

[peekingduck]

Thanks. I've read the document and we have lots of documentation, but it's very spread throughout the past few years, we don't have much continuous (monthly) documentation spread across the 24 month period.

For example, we have British Gas bills from March 2017 but only United Utility bills from June 2018 and Joint Account documentation from September 2018 and Council Tax in both our names from July 2018.

Then we have documents such as the mortgage deed when I purchased my apartment where my partner had to sign to live in my apartment through the solicitor which is May 2018.

So, we have plenty of documentation throughout the two year period but not much 'official' documentation at the beginning, because we lived in South Korea.

[peekingduck]

In total we have:

- 3 joint name documents (British Gas, United Utilities, Council Tax)
- 4 partner documents (Banking, Credit Card, DVLA, Aviva insurance)
- 6 my documents (Council Tax, HMRC, Banking, Utilities, O2 Phone bill)

Plus lots of adhoc documentation. Is that enough?

[peekingduck]

Hi.

My GF has applied for an unmarried partner visa, she is currently on a working holiday visa and she was informed that she has to pay the NHS Surcharge before they will assess her application. I just want to know if this is correct?

Thanks

[CR001]

Yes she has to pay. It is £1000 for a 2.5 year unmarried partner visa assuming she is switching within the UK.