My wife was given 3 years tier2 general visa to uk since last year and thus the whole family has to apply to meet her now. The company where she works has given us a maintenance letter for a month and after i have filled an application for my family and submitted, the UKVI said the documents i will submit are:

1. The passport or travel document

2. Evidence of my wife permission to enter or stay in the UK.

3. Criminal record certificate for Nigeria

4. Proof of relationship to your partner - for example, marriage or civil partnership certificates

5. A marriage certificate, or a reasonable equivalent.

My questions now are:
1. No mention was made of me or my wife bank statement of account and a friend whose family is already there is saying that i have to submit my statement of account despite the fact that UKVI have not asked for it. This is confusing to me as i think i have to submit ONLY the documents required of me to submit.
2. What other proof of relationship to ones partner do they expect to be submitted beside marriage certificate?
3. While filling the form, i said i have no dependants here in nigeria besides my children who are going with me. I need to know whether that will not count against me. But honestly, i have dependants but they dont have international passports because i have to fill in the passport details.

Please i need reply from those who have done this successfully before.
Thank you all.

bitbybit123:
My wife was given 3 years tier2 general visa to uk since last year and thus the whole family has to apply to meet her now. The company where she works has given us a maintenance letter for a month and after i have filled an application for my family and submitted, the UKVI said the documents i will submit are:

1. The passport or travel document

2. Evidence of my wife permission to enter or stay in the UK.

3. Criminal record certificate for Nigeria

4. Proof of relationship to your partner - for example, marriage or civil partnership certificates

5. A marriage certificate, or a reasonable equivalent.

My questions now are:
1. No mention was made of me or my wife bank statement of account and a friend whose family is already there is saying that i have to submit my statement of account despite the fact that UKVI have not asked for it. This is confusing to me as i think i have to submit ONLY the documents required of me to submit.
2. What other proof of relationship to ones partner do they expect to be submitted beside marriage certificate?
3. While filling the form, i said i have no dependants here in nigeria besides my children who are going with me. I need to know whether that will not count against me. But honestly, i have dependants but they dont have international passports because i have to fill in the passport details.

Please i need reply from those who have done this successfully before.
Thank you all.

Waiting

Your dependants are your children
You dont need statement since your wife is taking care of you, she is the one that would submit statement. If her statement is not enough then you have to submit yours
You need to present family pictures and chat and call logs
Birth certificate of all your kids
Your landed properties too
Your wife need to give you some docs as well.

jesmond3945:
Your dependants are your children
You dont need statement since your wife is taking care of you, she is the one that would submit statement. If her statement is not enough then you have to submit yours
You need to present family pictures and chat and call logs
Birth certificate of all your kids
Your landed properties too
Your wife need to give you some docs as well.

Thanks for your response.
This is where i get confused because my question is that do i have to submit any documents they have not asked me to submit because after completing the application, they listed the documents they require of me to submit. Its just that i want to be careful so as not to do 'oversabi' cause 'wahala' for myself.

bitbybit123:

Thanks for your response.
This is where i get confused because my question is that do i have to submit any documents they have not asked me to submit because after completing the application, they listed the documents they require of me to submit. Its just that i want to be careful so as not to do 'oversabi' cause 'wahala' for myself.

i would advise you do as I say. I know this people very well.

jesmond3945:
i would advise you do as I say. I know this people very well.

Ok. thanks.