The latest version has a question on documents to bring to the application centre about evidence that "your sponsor is not, or will not, be in breach of UK immigration laws at the time of your visit". Not mandatory to bring but "strongly recommended".
Are us husbands and partners sponsors? Seems that immigration doesn't allow for the fact that often a husband will pay all costs for his wife or partner. In the Philippines nearly always. In some other countries maybe not so much.,
They ask the applicant how much money they will need. A zero is not accepted. I made up a notional figure for my wife and then told them later online I will pay all costs.
They have your passport number so they can surely find out? But I suppose only if you were caught, that is!
Pretty sure this is mostly about UK residents. Plus a few living abroad not husbands or partners. But husbands living abroad are all deemed to be sponsors. So to be safe seems to me we should give something.
Though very difficult to prove a negative. But thought I will just show I am a permanent resident here and have been for some years.
Any ideas on this?

In my years in the airline industry around the world the advice I always give to visa applicants is, be truthful and only answer what they ask for without any embellishments.

OK but this a strong request for a document to show your sponsor ie me hasn't been involved in breaking immigration rules. Proving or helping to prove a negative.
Seemingly impossible to provide. Funnily enough maybe easier if someone in the past was accused of it and cleared by a court?
Even if I say I've been resident here for twenty years who's to say Eg I'm not organising small boats from here?

I'm not entirely sure what is being asked, and it certainly looks like you're being asked to prove a negative.

My best guess that the immigration laws you're being asked to prove that you're not breaking relate to trying to get your spouse into the UK without a spouse visa. And if that is what is being asked, I'd say you need documents proving both your, and your spouse's, ties to, in this case, the Phillipines. Honestly, pretty much anything you provide is going to be (IMO) weak evidence, but I would collect evidence of things such as ongoing local employment, registration for residency and/or taxation, an ongoing lease or property ownership (which I am not sure is possible in the Phillipines anyway), and then (and we're scraping the barrel here), ownership of a car, pet dog, etc.

Similar questions pop up in the US forum sometimes, about accompanying a non-British spouse into to the UK for a visit, or the other way around, including, as in my own case, regarding visiting the US to get married, and then leaving again, as there is no US visa available to cover that situation, you're just coming as a regular visitor, and if challenges at the airport you're at the mercy of the immigration officer to determine if you're an overstay risk, and its tough to provide evidence, especially in the spot, that you have significant ties to the UK.

Thanks for your advice Pulaski.

Those suggestions are going in anyway in an "other documents" section. But it is good advice to do as much there as possible as it helps answering the tricky question in the section on "strongly recommended forms".

Best I think to attempt a reply rather than not so I thought I could get some documents about four visas I got for wider family here in 2014 and one out of the 3 visas I got in 2007. They always came back at the end of the holidays! Providing old passports are still available.

Agreed. Reporting, and being able to document/ prove, previous visits to the UK, after which they returned home, is, IMO, one of the best pieces of evidence.

[Sorry about my previous post, which has several grammatical errors and typos, that I cannot now correct.]

Oh that's OK, quite understandable.

Good thing is they still got the passports.

Would be helpful if they asked about that directly. Or what else would suffice. And you would think they could automatically do a bit of work to find out about previous sponsorships, but No you have to tell them. Onus on you. The same sort of attitude here where they sometimes ask you to prove you paid last year for some government service. When that should be information they could easily find.

Standard 6 month visa now gone up to 126 pounds too!