TheAls

Hello, Have been scouring the forum for a while now trying to work out whether me and my partner would qualify as a de facto relationship, but still am no clearer. Any advice would be much appreciated. My partner is a qualified physiotherapist so she is hoping to apply as a skilled individual (i think 189), with me as her de facto partner. We have been together for 2.5 years, but have spent much of this time as long distance due to me having a job in Bristol and my partner studying full time in Stoke (we met while i was still in stoke). As soon as she graduated from university she got a job and moved in with me down here, but this has only been 4 months so far. Since we've been together we have been on several holidays together, including to her sisters wedding in crete. We havent got any joint finances or bills as we have not been living together for very long and have not got our own place at the moment. Despite being together for 2.5 years, my worry is that we dont have official paperwork to back this up. How much of an obstacle is this going to be to us being accepted as a de facto couple? - we can get plenty of statements from friends/family and photographs from holidays etc, but will this be enough? Is there anything else we can do? Thanks in advance for any help