we are at the moment trying to get together some stat decs from friends and family and are a little unsure as to how they should be worded.

has anyone got a sample with headers and footers so as i can pass these on to our friends to copy from?

i have done a search on this site and cannot seem to come up with much.

Hi

I have a template which I downloaded from here which you're welcome to have. Hopefully it should be attached!

Sorry to be so ignorant - but what is a stat dec for ??

Our friends had to do the Statatory Declarations in front of the solicitor, or any one could have written them, I think they have to witness them actually writing them.
Ours was for a spouse visa so may may be different?

It's a statutory declaration. It's a legal document where someone states that they know you, and that your relationship is genuine and lasting (if it's for a spouse visa, say).

It has to be signed in the presence of a solicitor, who will authorise it.

Billy,

I used something like this (it was for a spouse visa):

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I, XXXXX, a British Citizen of <address>, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:

1. The marriage of XXX and XXX is a genuine and ongoing one.

2. I have known XXX for X years, first meeting him when we worked together in 1995.

3. I have known his wife, XXX, for X years, since she began her relationship with him.

4. I believe XXX and XXX have a genuine, loving and continuing relationship because:
- I have accompanied them on many social occassions.
- I have visited them at their home in XXX several times.

5. I am confident that they will both continue to enjoy a happy marriage together.

To clarify.....it just needs to be signed in front of the official, not written.

thanks for the replies, but i thought you got friends family to write them out and then take them to a solicitor to sign, did not think you had to actually got to the solicitors ofice with all these people and do it there and then.

anyone got any experience on this?

maybe i better start phoning around and see what the solicitor has to say.

looks like our posts crossed pete.



thanks for that though, you have brought my heart rate down from 160.

No probs

Our solicitor charged £5 a copy, and that was for abotu 2 minutes work on thier part. Hate to think what the fee would be if they had to sit there for an hour while they wrote it out!

Hi welshbillyboy

You don't have to all go to the solicitors at the same time, just as long as the required signatures have been signed in front of a solicitor. Which makes things a bit easyer as it can be a nightmare trying to get all required parties together especially if you are all working.

Hope this helps a bit.

Paula

Just to let you know I got all my certs and photocopies, letters etc witnessed by a solictor for the TRA and it cost me £60, £5 a document.

got to do it again when full visa application goes in (providing I'm approved)

im confused now...

can somebody clarify the procedure?

Hi,

Which bit are you unclear about?


It's correct that the stat dec can be written in advance but the actual declaration bit at the end has to be signed by the declarant and then witnessed by a solicitor. The declarant has to say to the solicitor, " I do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is my name and handwriting and the contents of this, my statutory declaration, are true."

Each of your friends, family etc could go to a different solicitor to do this if they like. You don't all have to go en masse

Nicola

hi everyone i think i am just getting a little worried now but my husband is in NZ on work visa and I intend to pop down to london in next few weeks and get work visa for me and student visas for kids. Do I have to have these stat decs to prove i am still in a relationship with my husband or are you all talking about a different type of spouse visa.

sorry if i am being dense