On the topic of the Financial Requirement. Depending on circumstances in 2016, my wife is hoping to join me (a UK citizen) from outside the EU. Now I understand that before she can get the "join a family member" visa for temporary residence in the UK, I have to have (as her sponsor) about ...
To try to clarify. So once she gets ILR she can more or less come and go to and from the UK? However, there is a limit to this ability. The situation was noted of her being outside the UK for 2 or more years and thus the potential loss of her IRL. Presumably, this 2+ years absence from the UK is wit...
Ok understood and thanks. If she decides at a later stage to go for UK residence (not Citizenship) I know that the fixed UK residency rules do not apply. However, reading the "Immigration Directorate Instruction Family Migration:Appendix FM Section, Family Life, 5-Year Routes" document, sh...
I have a wife living outside the European Union. She would normally, to visit me in the UK, have to apply for either the UK visitor visa route or the UK family visitor route (both now in the Standard Visitor Visa). As I understand it, if she thinks she only needs to come here for under 6 months, she...
Thanks a bunch again. She is very nervoius about the whole business of filling in this Standard Visitor Visa. We are in constant touch on Skype today to get it down and dusted. As a matter of fact, people like my wife who apply from Moldova pay more for the visa, about 190 euros. I suppose it's beca...
I understand and as always thanks for getting the info so quickly to me. Because she has a full time job and a few other commiments in Moldova, this issue of her coming here on a visa has been trundling on since the summer. I have explained t oher that if we need to be together here in the UK on som...
I just spoke on Skype to my wife in Moldova. This one is a very simple question but she is worried about giving them the wrong answer. The Standard Visitor Visa online form. It asks her "Country of Nationality." Now she was born in the Ukraine and she Ukrainian nationality. However the onl...
Much thanks guys. The "fixed" UK residence issue (90 days a year), as was stated, would only be a problem for citizenship. To a degree it may also be an issue in the settlement procedure if the immigration officers considered that she was away from the UK for an unreasonable period, their ...
Apologies, I am just getting used to this technology. So this is the situation, am I right? She can come here initially on a joining a family member in the UK visa. Later she applies for the staying with the family member visa. There are no UK residency rules attached to these two visas. After that,...
Thank you but can you lead me to websites that explain this difference between residency only visas and visas leading to citizenship, where the 90 days rule comes in. How the difference between just residing here (not subject to the 90 days rule) and the naturalisation route differ. I need to unders...
To cut to the chase. Do the replies I received refer to these two visas, that allow her to reside here without being subject to the 90 days residency rule? Apply to join family living permanently in the UK (to get her into the UK in the first place) https://www.gov.uk/join-family-in-uk/extend-your-v...
I heard about the Surinder Singh route but when I asked if it still operated, I was told the Home Office had closed that particular "loophole." I know there was a lot in the media about it, and the government was saying then that they were going to address the issue. If it's still availabl...
I am a UK citizen but this year I married my wife from Moldova. She lives in Moldova and is a Moldovan citizen. I visit her regularly visit her in Moldova (outside the EU) from the UK and she asks about the situation where she might need to join me in the UK if, for example, I need to have long term...
I spoke to my wife and she is not really happy that she would only, under the residency rules (Temporary Leave to Remain and Indefinite Leave to Remain) be able to leave the UK for only 90 days in a year (making the 450 days in 5 years). She has quite a lot of commitments built up in Moldova, busine...
Thanks again. So really it makes no differences to her chances of getting the visa if she chooses to take one route on the Standard Visitor Visa form or another. We know about the refusals problem. Although I do not live with her in Moldova full time, I bought a nice apartment there for us to live i...
Thanks for the QUICK reply! I understand about the refusals problem. But would it make any difference to her chances of success if she did not, in the Standard Visitor Visa, choose to go for the old Family Visa route? In other words, does it really matter which former visa route (Family Visitor or G...
Cheers. I checked and it seems that the rule where she would have to leave the UK for not over 270 days in 3 years, is 0nly the case where after the 3 years are up, she wants to apply for UK citizenship. Okay, so if you read my post above you will see the idea is that she takes this A1 exam in the U...
Hi Casa I just looked it up and to initially join me in the UK as my wife she seems to need the "family of a settled person’ visa, and not to apply for Temporary Leave to Remain. So the question is if she needs to pass the A1 test before she can get the "family of a settled person" vi...
Hi Casa Before I answer the query on the family visitor visa, can I first run this past you please? I've done some research. This is what "seems" to be the case (but it's incredible complex and sometimes confusing compared to the system used in Moldova): On how long she needs to live in th...
Thanks and it's good to know she doesn't need to pass an English test to meet the requirements of the former family visitor visa. Can I ask one question? Are there any visas whereby she has to pass a language test BEFORE they can issue her with the visa to enter the UK? Or in all cases of UK visa is...
