how to present your application question Sender: ElshaUK

Hi Emsie...Right, we sent the OH's Defacto application off in July and am just waiting on the outcome now....So here is what we did :)

1. please can anyone advise how i should keep things together. do you send it all loose in one envelope?

....Yes....we did. We put it all together, put it in an A4 Brown envelope and then inside a plastic special delivery envelope. The pbuttport photo's were the only thing paperclipped to a page (as they were small) and we gave them heaps of warning in table of contents that they were paperclipped)

2. some of the documents that i need certifying are 4 or 5 pages long. if you're not allowed to staple anything then will i have to get every page certified - its going to work out very expensive if i do that!

.... the notary public who certified ours, did this weird thing with red, string like ribbon, which he threaded through a punched hole and then sealed on either end and embossed. He stamped each page but the ribbon was sealed under the embossed part. I was worried about this....but our CO has not said anything and we only had 3 documents which were done this way.

3. i've seen people write a list of their table of contents, do you put this list at the front of your application so the case workers know what is what?

...I put a cover page (almost like a school report) saying VISA loveX APPLICATION FOR loveXX loveXX OF (address) (tel no) and then put contents page. I also numbered our pages with bright green (only colour WHSmith had) dots and numbered from largest down to lowest number, ie - I had 100 pages so started at page 100 going down to 1. Also, don't forget a prepaid special delivery envelope and if you are front loading, your police clearance and pbuttport. Our meds were sent and arrived the same day as the application.

Hope this helps! If you need any other help, feel free to PM me :)

-- ****Susan****