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knwuna:
Greetings all,
Please i need your advice on the below:

I got married to my wife who happens to live and work in UK..She has her bristish passport too. she is currently making plans for me to join her in UK but the issue now is that she is heavily pregnant and we cannot meet up with the travel requirement that she has to earn £18,600 per year. I have no idea with the traveling things. Please i need your advice on what to do please or best way to go about it..please.
NOTE: She earns less than £18,600 per year. she has rented her apartment. What should we do..pls

justwise:
This is the situation i was referring to before, he needs a letter from the landlord and co-occupants since the bills are shared.

Minnienellie24:
@Aphrodite007 My case is quite similar to yours. When my hubby wanted to put up his application this year, I got a 2 bedroom with my younger sister and the rent and bills was shared between us and we had both our names on virtually all documents related to the house but i was made the lead tenant. She only wrote a letter of consent that she is aware my husband was coming and it was very okay with her for him to live with us. I called a company to carry out a housing inspection with a supporting certificate or letter from them and i provided all my sisters details required in the application form. We got no letter from the agent or Landlord.

Aphrodite007:
My heart goes out to you. I just can’t imagine myself in your situation right now. I would just be crying, the distance is not easy at all.

Anyway I think the decision is solely yours to take and not the house’s. If you’re willing to risk losing that £1500 then why not, submit the certs and see. However, If it’s a huge amount to lose, then you should reconsider. Maybe hubby can return to Nigeria and redo another wedding with you (it won’t cost so much if he is of Nigerian descent but if he is white, lol God will provide, those Abuja registry people wanted to use us and do money-making venture!)

So think deep, pray and decide, but remember, peter walked on water (nothing beyond God).

foxyvisa:
@justwise and house, I am seriously confused if I and hubby should go ahead with submitting of our UK spouse visa application this week because of our local government issued marriage certificate and church certificate. Hubby is currently in UK and all this is sooo confusing especially since we have been putting documents together all through the year and finally ready for submission

justwise:
You might have added that and got your visa because you saw other people who did, however many did not add it and still get their visas.

If i'm renting 1 or 2 bedroom flat and paying all my bills why would i need to ask the landlord if my wife can live with me?

If my rent is bills inclusive or in case of multiple occupant accommodation then i will need a letter from my landlord because additional person will increase the bills.

justwise:
Its good that you raised this issue because i also wanted to find out if British embassy rejects marriage certificate issued by local govt.

@lamakinde can you explain that?

Lamakinde:
I concur. Thanks.

Phoenix77:
Thanks so much I really appreciate I will get on with this now and ask questions later and do I need to take d English test? So I can get that out of the way before the application is ready.. or what do u suggest.

Lamakinde:
I believe you should use the name on your passport and documents, though you could include the publication showing a change of name which you are yet to effect on your passport. Is it your IHS that summed up to $2603 or your visa fees?
I can remember someone paying $600 plus for IHS when she did hers before mine on this forum and I ended up been charged $816, I don't know their criteria for how much they charge.
When you fill your forms online, you can leave one with errors if you are yet to pay your visa fees, it will clear off your page in like three months or so and won't get to UKVI.
I abandoned the one of Settlement - Marriage because it didn't give me the option to pay for IHS then.

Phoenix77:
Hi @Aphrodite007... pls I don't know if you or any nairalander that has submitted their application for a settlement visa can be kind enough to walk me through mine... all these lawyers out there are as good making a donation to charity if you go through them. I will really appreciate it. Thanks

readynow:
good morning good people,i am filling the VAF4A Form just came across the this question

1.do you and your sponsor have any shared financial responsibilities? see the screenshot please am i to provide evident for this? if i a
m what evidence will be required?
2. does anyone other than your sponsor live in the property? the answer to this is yes my wife stays in a 3 bedroom flat with
2 other flatmate ,they have given her the names and age but might not be willing to give their passport number is this a problem
3. Going by the thread and the mistake made as under category settlement i am the husband( applicant )here and my wife is over there( sponsor)-is the right entry settlement-husband since am the one going to join her

just want to be clear and want to get it right ,my questions might look foolish but i had rather ask stupid questions than go through the stress.

Lamakinde:
I had this issue while filling my application online so I left that one to fill another one. I did settlement - marriage initially then later did another one of settlement - husband as the right one because the first one didn't take me to IHS payment which I learnt was needed. I paid $1918 while IHS was $816.