<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(andypaul @ Apr 22 2006, 11:12 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Well with regards to the SET(m) (the form to fill into get ilr) there have been changes recently this month a new form was brought out, as the last form had a section missing which had to be there for legal reasons.
As well as the requirments on time spent in the UK, its worth noting you need edvidence thoughout the two years that you have been living as man and wife. I.e apart from any holidays or business trips one of you is required to go on alone. You also need to have proof of various evidence, utility bills, council tax details, correspondce with offcial govement agencies,bank statments etc.
There is an official listing with the SET(m) paperwork. It was pointed out to me this has to be over the whole two years,to show you lived as Hubsband and Wife. Not just a few isolated examples.
I have been advised it is worth collecting and adding your Wife to Bills, opening bank accounts, applying for Ehic, your Wife joining a local GP. So from as early on you are collecting evidence that you live as man and wife in one joint address.
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We did that right from the start; got my wife as joint name on several of our household bills. Get her a joint bank account with myself. It makes obvious sense to get her registered at the same GP as the husband too.
It isn't the hardest thing to get the citizenship either, except that now you have to show proof she can speakee the Eengleesh too, and her speaking English is NOT enough proof. They want documentation that she can. Luckily my wife had been to college as part of her attempts to start a nursing career, and had an English 'O' level or whatever the current politically correct name of choice is for such qualifications.
And they want ever increasing lumps of green too, to apply for the ILR and citizenship papers.
