Laravel: Upload Form & Submit Data using AJAX

Is there a way in laravel to submit the uploaded file and the form data in a single ajax request while still having the form data accessible through the Laravel request interface?

For example, $request->file works fine, but $request->input('person.first') does not work because I am guessing Laravel is not parsing the data since it it mulitpart/form-data instead of application/json

let data = new FormData();
 data.append('person', JSON.stringify(this.person));
 data.append('file', this.resume);


  $.ajax({
    type: 'post',
    url: '/application',
    processData: false, // tell jQuery to not process the data
    contentType: false, // tell jQuery to not set the content-type
    data: data,
    dataType: 'json'
  })

via Chebli Mohamed