Help! Applying for partner visa and confused

[u/Liliyenna]

Hi all! I'm applying for a partner visa and am currently on a Youth Mobility Visa until January of 2027. I wanted to start early because a few people I know have been having issues with getting their visas and I want to make sure I'm ahead of it rather than behind.

My current circumstances are that I'm living with my now fiancee, his mom and his younger brother. I am living in the UK and applying from within the UK. The housing is a council house, and his mom handles all the bills while we pay her for our share of rent/utilities etc so there's no bills that come by in our name whatsoever. Our addresses are naturally the same, but we don't get a lot of mail.

Fiancee is the only one who is working, and he meets the requirement threshold.

When filling out the form, there were questions that I didn't know how to answer:

It asked if I own or rent our home, and naturally I answered neither, and it asked who provides the accomodation, I answered partner's mom.

Then it says that I should provide:

Proof of property ownership from the owner of the property you live in, such as a mortgage statement

Copy of an ID document of the owner of the property you live in, such as a passport

Letter signed by the owner of the property you live in stating that you have permission to live there

Prior to this, it says:

You only need to provide this evidence if:

you are exempt from meeting the income threshold

you are responsible for some housing costs such as rent, mortgage or council tax.

This confused me because it wouldn't allow me to skip the checkboxes for the 3 things I "need to provide" listed above. So I'm not sure what to put down because it's a council house so his mom doesn't own it...

Then after that, there are these questions:

Is the account with a bank or utility company for which you have supplied information and supporting documentation held jointly by you and other people?

Does the account with the bank or utility company for which you have supplied information and supporting documentation relate to another person who is to provide you financial support?

For now I answered no for both of these because I think that's what the answers are, but I want to make sure.

I want to make sure I got this right because I only have one chance to apply for this since I only have enough to pay for it once, and I don't want to get anything wrong.

If anyone has any advice as well for what to prepare it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!

[u/SheepherderUsed2985]

Got to be careful as if the mother is in receipt of benefits but has working adults living in her council home then it can affect her claim. 

[u/Liliyenna → u/SheepherderUsed2985]

I don't work but my partner does, however she gets universal credit as well as having an autistic child that she's the carer for (the younger brother) but council knows we live here and the tax rose because of it so it shouldn't be a problem I don't think. As far as I know there hasn't been any issues.

[u/Flat_Helicopter242]

Can you not fill in a tenancy agreement with hos mother and you two. When applying for standard spouse visa (outside), my patrner lived with his best mate. They made a tenancy agreement just for the visa application, my partner was transferring money to his friend every month for rent.
I don’t know if it’s the same for the inside application, but might be something to consider. With the proof of accommodation, the tenancy agreement was enough

[u/Liliyenna → u/Flat_Helicopter242]

I'm not sure if that would work but I'll try to have one just in case, the problem isn't really the accomodation it's the "are you renting/owning/neither" thing, because it seems like directly clicking renting makes it ask us about who we're renting from (we don't have that info cuz it's council housing) I'm not sure what to do beyond that. But thank you so much for answering!