Thorne210

Hi, My boyfriend and I had plans to apply for the partner visa before my temporary skilled visa expires in November this year. However, in light of recent news that bridging visas will not be granted when changes come into effect anytime before 10th June this year, we are now very keen to apply ASAP. Advice from friends who have gone through the partner visa process themselves in the last 12 months has been to apply now despite us living together and hence having limited evidence of a de facto relationship. I am aware that we can get around this by registering the relationship and don't necessarily need to be living together. We do also have a shared bank account and other evidence. Friends have said that it was several months before they were contacted re their application and that you have ample time to get your evidence, therefore once we are living together we can start to attach more. I have concerns about doing this of course as it's a lot of money to get this wrong. It would be great if anyone going through the application process could give me some advice. Thanks,