10y Partner route - Financial requirement. Redundancy

[vaidy]

Hello

I am currently on a 10y Partner route. More history here. My current visa expires in December and I had planned to apply for an extension towards the end of November. I do not work and we were planning on using my husbands income and 6-months payslips.

However, my husband has learned that they are going to be making his division redundant in November. He will get paid until end of November. We do not have sufficient savings (£16k + £18.6k) in the bank for 6 months.

What are my options here? I will have 6 months payslips and potentially a letter from the employer, but I am not sure if I can use it.

Or should I switch to a 5-year partner route now? I have 2.5 years left to complete under the 10y route.

Thank you all.

[CR001]

FLR(FP) 10 year partner route does NOT have a financial requirement.

If you choose to switch to FLR(M) 5 year route, you must meet the financial requirement at the time of application and it must be ongoing employment.

[seagul]

Or should I switch to a 5-year partner route now? I have 2.5 years left to complete under the 10y route.

Thank you all.

Better to renew under 10 years of route because changing to FLRM will reset your ILR clock which still won't deprive you of from ILR under 10 years of long residence route. Preferably don't supply payslips or any financial documentation so that they might not issue you FLRM in haste/error.

[vaidy]

Thank you Seagul and CR001.

I filled in the online appplication form (as a mock exercise) and the finance section shows

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You must be able to show that the financial requirement for this route is met.
Your annual financial requirement is :
£ 18,600.00

Will you be able to prove that the financial requirement is met? (Required)

I can select "No" and it does let me proceed and asks a bunch of questions around income, house ownership, maintenance, etc.

However, I'm wondering why it says "I must be able to show financial requirement for this route is met"