FLR(M) : shared financial responsibilities

Old Mar 3rd 2022, 3:02 pm
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While filling the online form, we are asked whether my husband and I have shared financial responsibilities. (please see text below). Now, while we do pay for all the costs mentioned, we pay from one joint account and do not each contribute separately from our individual accounts. Based on this my answer would be no. However, I am wondering if i should select yes as we do pay for these costs, but write that we pay from a joint account and do not split costs. Appreciate any advice. Do you and your partner have any shared financial responsibilities?(Required)
For example, council tax, utility bills, mortgage or rent, childcare costs, loan payments
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Please list your shared financial responsibilities and how much you each pay each month
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Old Mar 3rd 2022, 4:22 pm
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If you pay from a joint account don't you both input monies to this account?

If so you have joint responsibilities.

Even if not the fact you both pay for the bills (even from individual accounts) means you have joint responsibilities.
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Old Mar 3rd 2022, 4:56 pm
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If you live at the same address and pay for services/ utilities at that address, then you should surely be able to show that between your two incomes that one or other of you are paying for things that are billed to the address that you share, and therefore become shared responsibilities. The purpose of the question is to ask you to demonstrate that your lives are financially intertwined, which can mean a lot more than just "we are both paid into a joint account and that account is used to pay for utilities" because that is not how everyone manages their household budget.
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I looked at my wife's FLR application in September 2018 (I think the question is still the same now), she answered "yes" to the question about shared financial responsibilities and she replied to the next question (asking for details) as follows, I have copied from her application form:

"We are joint tenants of our rented apartment and the council tax is in our joint names. The monthly rent is £*** and council tax £***. My husband pays the full amounts himself."

This illustrates the point that Pulaski has made above.
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Old Mar 4th 2022, 6:04 pm
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Default Re: FLR(M) : shared financial responsibilities

Thank you everyone for your feedback. This is very helpful.

Does the fact that I am not working or that we are paying for our expenses from savings make a difference? My husband has been employed twice on short projects during our 2 years in the UK, so we have been primarily been living off savings we brought with us when we moved here, which has been supplemented when husband was earning.
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The fact that either applicant or sponsor is not working will come into play depending on what category you are applying under; savings?
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Old Mar 4th 2022, 7:38 pm
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yes. we are using the savings route to meet financial requirement.
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Old Mar 5th 2022, 10:17 am
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Default Re: FLR(M) : shared financial responsibilities

Thank you DV for sharing what you put in.

In our case, as we have a joint account, I was planning on wording the answer as follows:
We are joint tenants of our rented apartment and the council tax is in our joint names. The monthly rent is £xxx and monthly council tax £xxx. Our utility bills are in my name and I pay for all of our expenses from my partner and my joint bank account.

I (sponsor) do not work. We have paid for our expenses over the last 2 years + from savings we brought with us when we moved and from income my husband earned from two projects he worked on. Currently he is unemployed. We are using the savings route to meet financial responsibility, showing savings across 3 accounts - savings account in UK, current account in UK and savings account in another country where we lived before moving to the UK ( we hold this account as we own a property there).

We used a lawyer for our the initial visa application and are doing it on our own this time. It is quite stressful to be unsure at every step of the way

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That wording looks fine. Don't worry, this forum was a big help for us at the FLR and ILR stage, so don't worry! We did it all ourselves, initial leave to enter (using savings), FLR (salary) and ILR (savings), so it can be done !!!
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Old Mar 7th 2022, 10:01 am
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Originally Posted by DernierVirage
That wording looks fine. Don't worry, this forum was a big help for us at the FLR and ILR stage, so don't worry! We did it all ourselves, initial leave to enter (using savings), FLR (salary) and ILR (savings), so it can be done !!!
Thank you so much DV for the encouragement!
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