A person who is not married nor in a civil partnership to join a partner who is settled in the UK, provided certain conditions are met
If someone lives in a long-term relationship or as a live-in partner in the UK, he can apply for a co-habitation visa.
The PRAVASISAMWAD.COM has gathered the following information to help procure a co-habitation visa.
In the application, the sponsor is the person the applicant is in a relationship with or with whom he/she intends to live.
As per rule, a person who is not married or in a civil partnership can join a partner who is settled in the UK, provided certain conditions are met.
Following are the key requirements:
- A non-European Economic Area (EEA) national who is an unmarried/same-sex partner of an EEA national will need to show that they are in a durable relationship with the EEA national.
- The applicant’s unmarried or same-sex partner should be over 18 years of age on the date of the applicant’s arrival in the UK.
- Suppose the applicant in a couple of months is to become 18-year-old, and the other party is 18 or over. In that case, the ECO has the discretion to issue entry clearance but valid only from when the person under 18 has reached their 18th birthday.
- There should be a proof of intention to live permanently with the other means an intention to live together, evidenced by a clear commitment from both parties that they will live together permanently in the UK immediately following the outcome of the application in question or as soon as circumstances permit.
- Each of the parties in the unmarried or same-sex partnership is required to provide evidence regarding any previous marital or other relationship akin to marriage / civil partnership that they may have had. They should be asked to specify how long ago the previous relationship was terminated, either by divorce / dissolved civil partnership, by separation or by death.
- The applicant must provide six pieces of correspondence addressed to him / her and their partner at the same address as evidence that they have been living together during the past two years.
- Proof of joint commitments (such as joint bank accounts, investments, rent agreements, mortgage, life insurance policy naming the other partner as a beneficiary, etc).
- Any official correspondence linking both partners to the same address, for example council tax, utility bills, doctors records.
- A foreign national may apply for UK entry clearance as the unmarried / same-sex partner of an accredited diplomat posted to or based in the UK for the duration of the partner’s posting. There will be no need for applicants to satisfy the usual two-year co-habitation condition applied to other unmarried/same-sex partner applications.
