Hi all,
My partner and I have been together for a year and a half. He is non-EU and I am Northern Irish (currently with an Irish passport, but had a British passport until I was 18 – can claim dual nationality).
I reside in Scotland and he is currently visiting me again on a visitor visa (2 year multi entry). I am in my final year of a Law Degree.
With regards to the future, we want more than anything to be together. We have already maintained a year and a half, the majority of which has been apart.
If we were to marry in the next year, the main problem is that I am facing a 2 year traineeship with a law firm (In Scotland), and in the first year I will be on a salary of 17-18k, missing the £18,600 threshold. In the second year it will go up to 20k.
I just don’t know what to do. It seems every avenue I go down, the exit is blocked. I have thought of the following possibilities – but can’t seem to find concrete answers to any. If anyone could provide any guidance, that’d be greatly appreciated
1) With an Irish passport (though born in Northern Ireland – UK) could I claim my EU nationality and then
bring my husband (once married) to live with me in the UK without the £18,600 restriction coming into force?
2) Say if I was making £17,500 a year in my first year as a trainee solicitor, would I then be able to bump this up to 18,600 for example, by privately tutoring students or in cash savings? And if so, how long would I have to wait before the UKVI would accept this? – obviously not on the day I get my contract!
3) Finally, do you know of any areas of employment in which my fiancé could apply for work in the hope they would then sponsor him/ provide him with a work visa? I’d thought of Offshore oil, but it’s impossible to get answers from the companies.
Thanks in advance!
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