Evidence of where family members live lawfully and permanently can be originals or certified copies of:
- their passport or passport pages showing their identity and residence permit
- letters or other documents showing that permanent residence in another country has been granted
- a passport or passport pages showing identity and nationality
- naturalisation or citizenship certificates.
If family members don’t need permits to live in their country of residence (eg European Community nationals living in other European Community countries), you must provide original or certified copies of:
- registration cards or certificates from the local police or municipal authority
or
- confirmation of your family members’ residence status from an authoritative source such as a municipal, judicial, police or government authority.
You must also provide evidence that your family members are actually living in the countries you state in your application form. Acceptable evidence that your immediate family members are actually residing in a country includes (but is not limited to):
- correspondence (including post marked envelopes) addressed to you from their home country
- employment references
- rates demands
- income tax returns
- mortgage documents
- documents showing that household effects have been moved to that country
- any other documents or evidence that proves they are actually living in that country
Note: If one of your children is residing in a country where they do not have the right of, or permission to take up, permanent residence, they are deemed to be lawfully and permanently in the country in which they predominantly lived in the last 10 years and in which they are entitled to reside lawfully and permanently.