UK Partner Visa in a Rush

Hello All,

Ok so we are in the UK currently together (me british, gf Filipina) Immigration have just confirmed gf can apply for a permanent visa from the UK as she can't fly home at the moment. Obviously didn't plan to do it in a rush (were going to apply from Manila when there next) but we have to get the application in quickly while there's a travel ban from UK to Phillipines.

Haven't prepared anything just found out 30 minutes ago we can apply.

We will be reading again through all the posts on the forum but if anyone has any suggestions/tips to get it done quickly and correctly please let me know.

One question we were asked when I last took advice is how to prove we've been living together for 2 years which I thought was no problem (been living together 3 years haven't spent a day apart in that time) but leases are in my name and they want leases/bills in joint names or a joint bank account for 2 years :/ Any ideas of a solid way to prove we've been living together for two years ? To be clear we have so there must be a way.

But yer any small tips would be great.

Just need to find out where to start

If you are renting a signed statement from your landlord confirming both living at your address might help.

whats the rush? i hope youve got deep pockets

Don't know how it would be viewed but it might be better put her on a fiancee visa if your long term plan is marriage
Might have to do some leg work with a registrar quickly.

dunno why UKVI cant simply extend her current visa ? ( visit visa i presume--so was valid for 6 months anyway )

Yer they extended her vistor visa till March 2021. But I don't want end up where she has to fly back and I can't enter Phillipines still which was what was about to happen till this new covid mutation and tier 4 lockdown.

So we have to start the application before the travel ban ends to be allowed to apply from the UK they said.

I filled out the application and have all the documents required and ready to upload I believe.

Unsure about this bit :

'What amount of savings are held in this account in GBP?(Required)
Only include funds that have been in your account for the last 6 months or where you have liquidated or transferred eligible assets or funds that you have owned and controlled for 6 months.'

This is for savings, I have a Shares ISA that's has had say £50k of stock holdings in, can I liquidate that into cash now and use that as I've held the shares for more than 6 months in that account ? Or do I have to wait 6 months from when I liquidate?

I do have 6 months paye slips for a consultant job for £19k a year. But wanted to add the savings statement if I can to show we can comfortably afford it.

Filipino s are now allowed to travel backhome

Not now the tier 4 lockdown. Philippines announced a ban on UK flights yesterday

That looks good the shares are fine as the period you have held them for is included in the 6 months

Ok that is going to disappoint a lot of people who have planned a Xmas break and not left yet.

Cool yer that's how I read it. But I do have to liquidate them though right ? I can't submit the value of the shares? (I'm pretty sure I can't just checking cause it will cost alot to liquidate, thousands)

John (Ollie) included in my refusal was a point that i made about holding shares, i had held them for years but after transfering them to cash they said i hadnt held them for 6 months or more.. so probably best to leave them as shares.
Ollie i take it that when you say that you have been living together 2/3 years you meant both here and in Phills, just wondered how you did it if on a visit visa..

I need to properly read it in big letters and whole pages ( I am on my phone screen) but page 47 I think suggests that you can cash in your shares providing they are under your control and add them to your savings

That's how I read it but Heathen seems to have been told differently in his application so Ill call them and ask

Yer we traveled living a month in each country since 2018 and two 6 months stays in the UK.

I assume in your refusal you didn't have apaye slips to meet the requirement?

Did you reapply after 6 months and it was then fine ?

Hi Ollie i cant remember the actual wording but for sure there was a reference to not having the funds the required 6 months, the 2 other refusal points were not including my original divorce certificate, but instead i included my affidavit from the British embassy in Manila which requires the divorce certificate in order to obtain the affidavit, the other point of refusal was that i included a letter from my employer which appeared to not to be from my employer. I applied again almost immediately including exactly what they had asked for, but of course it cost me all the application fees again, so it was an expensive lesson to learn..

Why can't your gf fly home? There are not restrictions on Filipinos flying into Philippines.

I think they would look at the original airport of departure,yes

Canada is doing the same in case someone decides to do a transit through the European mainland.