Hi

With all the supporting documents and photos how do they want them presented to them, are they allowed to be "comb" bound together so that they stay in the correct indexed order, must they be in a loose file?

For the photos, can these be in the standard small A5 photo holders that you get given at the photo shops here or do they need to be pasted onto A4 sheets? There are a lot of photos / documents and I dont want any dramas on the day that they are being submitted .....

Thanks for any suggestions

I don't think there is a right and wrong way, many people will have different experiences of what has worked for them.

For my partners application we assembled all the documents and photos and placed them in a folder containing transparent pages, each document in a single page. We numbered all the pages and included an index at the front with a very short resume of every page. We started with my partners covering letter and then my letter of sponsorship followed by an itinerary and we only included a small number of relevant photos, printed them on paper and put them in the transparent pages.

I cannot recall what sort of visa your other half is applying for but bear in mind that the ECO only has a very short time to make a decision and is not going to want to plough through reams of papers so you need to make the application as concise and snappy as possible as well as being easily readable.

Good luck

My Wife submitted all of our photo's in large albums, but I'd imagine that the small A5 albums you mention will be fine.

Take a look at these 2 pinned threads, I found the 2nd one most useful for ideas on how to set things out when putting all our paperwork in order.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/323804-uk-settlement-visa/

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/81148-robs-guide-to-uk-settlement-application-preparation/

The problem here is we did put all our applications in easy read format but the staff at Regent House pull everything out of the folders.