[dckiwi]

Hello! My husband has a job offer and we are putting together our papers. As a "parter work visa" applicant I need to prove that we have a relationship recognized by the NZ government, so I am including our marriage certificate. But they also want me to prove that we have a "loving and stable" relationship. Does anyone know what "evidence" they are looking for? Similarly, for our daughter's student visa we need to prove that she lives with us and that we take care of her. Besides the birth certificates, the passports, and the plane tickets proving we are arriving together, what else could they want? Any guidance is appreciated! Thanks!

[Park City Partner]

For the partner application they will want joint bank accounts, utility bills with both names or bills in different names going to same address, mortgage or lease documents, correspondance to both of you at the same address (holiday cards etc), photos of holidays ...blah blah blah...The joint bank account was the kicker for us but I also think it depends on the case officer.

Good luck.

[DMcG]

Basically, things that show you live together as a couple.
So joint bank accounts, bills in both names, holiday photos of you together and so on. We had great fun with this as we didn't have shared bank accounts and all the bills (and the mortgage) were in my name. We ended up with lots of photos of our travels with things like - photo of me standing next to dolmen in France (taken by GF) and photo of GF standing beside same dolmen (taken by me) :confused: We also threw in our plane tickets showing we were on the same flight on successive long trips. Another option is letters from mutual friends who can provide witness letters - we got one from our GP (who we both new socially) - and one from my GF's ex landlady who's a social worker.

Dougie

[IanW99]

Pretty much the same answers given by others.

They like to see such things as joint bank accounts, that you are both on the same rental agreement or mortgage. Utility bills in joint names, or different bills in each name but for the same residence etc. Children of the partnership so if the birth certificate lists you both, that will be useful.

When you start to think about it, there are normally lots of things that you can use to help prove that you live together e.g. plane tickets to a family holiday, photographs of you together on holiday etc.

If you are still having trouble proving it, then ask on the forum for more suggestions, sure that there are lots.

Ian

[wiki]

My got our partnership PR for my other half in June. We only got a joint bank account a month or so before we applied, and had no bills in our joint name, but provided the joint rental agreement and an old set of our joint English Heritage membership cards!

We also had postcards to the both of us with clear date stamp, postcards I sent when I was on hols back in NZ and dredged the email inboxes for some really old emails to each other... and we also had a letter from a chiropractic doctor stating he knew us both and knew we'd been in a relationship for x number of years.

We also had photos of each other taken at the same place (but not both of us in the pic - the colesseum in Rome, Pumakkale in Turkey, standing beside a reindeer in snow in Finland... just a handful that couldn't be mistaken for Yorkshire!

To be honest, we thought we had too little proof, but that part of the application went in fine. If they do doubt you, they can give you a work permit for a year and then transfer it to PR when they're happy you've been together 12 months.

[Nienke]

I just went to the local council and had them print out an official statement of all the addresses where we had lived together. Send it in together with our marriage certificate and that was fine.

[bobbyj]

Pretty much the same as everybody else here. Bit worried that we have proof of living together but only for around 10 months (whereas we have been together for over 3). When we went to drop the documents off they seem to think its pretty straighforward...and like somebody said, if they have doubts, they will give you a work permit for 12 months and transfer to PR once you have satisfied them.

In addition to what most people have here, we were lucky enough to take a holiday with myself, OH, and both sets of parents (sounds like a nightmare to most, but was great in the end)...so we gave them copies of the tickets and details of when payments were made which proved it had been planned for a long time in advance.

I'm sure you will be fine though - I get the impression that "the family" is really important when it comes to the government's immigration policy as its a bit more long-term and stable - as opposed to the odd gap-year student going out there to work in a bar for a year.

[jonSE]

We sent a copy of wills made when we bought our first house together, and some bizarre stuff like newspaper cuttings of Yacht race results where we were listed together as a couple, a program from a car club event in the US I attended as a tech advisor in my bio it stated I had just bought a car for my OH. If you use your Imagination there is probably lots of stuff you can send.