Hi I have a quick question. Has anybody recently submitted an ILR form SetM and been turned down because one of the reasons was claming child or working tax credits? I have been recently advised to not claim due to the current economic climate as it would be so easy to fall foul of UKBA policies. I ...

Just recently after reading up on the applicaton for ILR form set M i came accross some advice about claiming child and working tax credits as it is not classed as public funds? From what i understand and after completing the HMRC online assement form which i included my income and my wifes income f...

Can anybody give me an answer?

I would like to know if claiming Tax credit's for my wifes three children will affect the IRL set M application in April next year my wife along with her children are non EU citizens. I have never ever claimed any benefits or been unemployed but feel i should be able to claim at least Child tax cred...

Just to clear somthing up my wife arrived in Feb 2009 I get real mixed up with the dates as it took a year to get her over from the philippines I have to remember i got married in Nov 2007 and applied Dec 2007 Got denied Jan 2008 then had a very long wait until November 2008 for the appeal and End o...

Am i wrong or is this the next step we need to do after staying in the UK under the 2 year spouse visa we would apply for the indefinite leave to remain?

Ok well i feel there should be some consideration i'm paying a large amount of money this is not some kind of game Like oh lets... see i will waste £500.00 and see if i can get my over from abroad and i would put it to anybody that enjoying a family life with someone who is living overseas is not v...

No my wife and her three children are all now here in the UK my wife since Feb 2008 and the children since July 2010.

I would just like to know people thoughts on the ECO reasons to deny visa applications and then quote article 8

I would like know other peoples views on the above Article 8: Right to privacy (1) Everyone has the right for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. (2) There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with th...

Hi Many thanks for the quick responses my wife is from the Philippines and can read write and talk English to quite a high standard so just taking the life in the UK test should be enough? I hope We applied for the spouse visa in Dec 2006 we got the visa and my wife arrived in Feb 2008 after a very ...

OK hope no one going to think this is a stupid question Will my wife have to take a English test if she passes the life in the UK test we are will be applying for settlement visa FormsetM next April but i have just read about the English language test which is starting from November 2010 My reason f...

Ok second time in posting this stmellon many thanks for your reply it was very helpfull Just a quick one my wife and I recently applied for her three daughters to come to the UK they are 11 13 and 14 years old we were successful in our application and were informed yesterday they had the visa Now wh...

OK I hope someone will be able to help I have reactivated this post it is now over a year since my wife has arrived from the Philippines and we are very both very happy, We are now currently renting a two bedroom flat I am working full time for a college and my wife has a number part time cleaning j...

Well after what seemed to be very long wait my wife has now sent her passport off to Manila via a courier to get her visa. At long last things are moving in the right direction though not before i had to instruct my solicitor to contact the Uk and Manila immigration guys and gently push them to call...

Many thanks Wanderer for your advice does this Schengen visa apply to the whole of the European Union? My wife has a brother and sister in Paris? And i better get saving though i suspect its going to take some time to recover financially but i will also be taking some legal advice before we make the...

Hi I am a UK National and in 2007 Married my wife who is from the Philippines we have just recently been awarded UK spouse visa for my wife after having our Appeal heard at the AIT in Hatton Cross last November 2008. I received documents from the AIT dated 18th of December. Our Solicitor has asked u...

Hi Many thanks for your quick reply i now understand what is required and of course this will take a little bit more time but as i'm begining to learn about the philippines and getting all the admin done for the visa getting marriage contract from the nso etc.. all takes a long time. I agree i think...

Hi I'm looking at possible advice for the following: I met my wife to be in London in Jan 2006 while she was on a visitor visa we then started to date and last year in October we flew back to the Philippines to get married, now my wife was only given a three month visitor visa so she has overstayed ...

Hi This is my first post, so i'm new to all this but i'm very impressed with this forum, anyway my question is this: first of all i'm a UK national was born in London UK and have lived here all my life I married my wife last November in the Philippines and we are now just going through the steps to ...