Question about financial interdependence/shared expenses

[Fine_Ice802]

Hi everyone, I’m looking for guidance on how to present financial-interdependence evidence for Question 7e in an Outland spousal sponsorship.

As we don't have a joint bank account (which don't exist here), my husband and I use the Splitwise app to manage all shared expenses. Instead of sending each other money, we try to keep our spending balanced by checking the Splitwise totals. For each month we have:

• a Splitwise PDF showing all shared expenses
• bank statements from both of us showing the corresponding payments

We have about a year of these monthly logs.

For those who submitted something similar:

• What’s the best way to present this? Month-by-month with matched statements, or combined in a different format?
• Did you include every month or just a few from throughout the year?
• And was this type of evidence accepted on its own for 7e?

Any experiences or tips would really help!

 

[armoured]

I think you're overthinking. If you share a residence and one of you pays, you are sharing expenses. Write a short letter of explanation and provide some other /examples/ of things that one or the other of you has paid for. Can also note that joint accounts are not a thing - won't be a surprise, it's much of the world that way.

 

[armoured]

Just to be clear, I think the financial interdependence thing CAN be important, but for couples that are living together, it's sort of additional to the evidence of living together.

Where it can be more important (just as an example) - not living together; couples that are common law esp just over the minimum twelve months, shared accommodation (eg students sharing a house with others), those who don't have the best evidence of living together or cohabitation not continuous, multiple places, etc.

It does involve using some judgment. For couples where the relationship evidence is less strong - things like this can be critical. Sometimes cultural aspects are important, but I won't try to delve into that in detail.

"Shared expenses" for a married couple with kids living together >3 years is almost a joke (ummm, kids? That should count).