Spouse Visa Employment Type and Annual Salary

[AKAM]

Thank you for your help members of this helpful board. I need your help in filling Spouse visa application for a family Member. I have two questions please.
1) The Spouse of the applicant is a Junior doctor on a full time fixed- term contract of two years from February 2020 to February 2022. In the online application form they asked about the employment type but there are only two options to choose from: Permanent and Temporary. Which option she we choose.

2) The second question concerns the salary. This is what is written In his pay slip :

SALARY/WAGE: 39467.00

Basic Pay 3288.92
Addn Roster Hours NP 575.56
Night Duty 37% 501.97
Weekend <1in2-1in4 246.67

PENSIONABLE PAY 3288.92
FREQUENCY Monthly
PERIOD END DATE 30 JUN 2021
PAY METHOD BACS


TAXABLE PAY 4613.12
NON-TAXABLE PAY 0.00
TOTAL PAYMENTS 4613.12
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS 1232.39

NET PAY 3380.73

In the employer letter which is confirming his employment, payments, duration of the employment and that the pay slips are authentic, they have stated that his ANNUAL SALARY IS £54,471.86

The question is does he need to state the total annual income which consists of a Basic Pay and supplemented by an enhancement for out of hours as per rota which is the 54471.86 or the Basic Salary which is 39467.00
Thank you

[TODMATT]

Thank you for your help members of this helpful board. I need your help in filling Spouse visa application for a family Member. I have two questions please.
1) The Spouse of the applicant is a Junior doctor on a full time fixed- term contract of two years from February 2020 to February 2022. In the online application form they asked about the employment type but there are only two options to choose from: Permanent and Temporary. Which option she we choose.

2) The second question concerns the salary. This is what is written In his pay slip :

SALARY/WAGE: 39467.00

Basic Pay 3288.92
Addn Roster Hours NP 575.56
Night Duty 37% 501.97
Weekend <1in2-1in4 246.67

PENSIONABLE PAY 3288.92
FREQUENCY Monthly
PERIOD END DATE 30 JUN 2021
PAY METHOD BACS


TAXABLE PAY 4613.12
NON-TAXABLE PAY 0.00
TOTAL PAYMENTS 4613.12
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS 1232.39

NET PAY 3380.73

In the employer letter which is confirming his employment, payments, duration of the employment and that the pay slips are authentic, they have stated that his ANNUAL SALARY IS £54,471.86

The question is does he need to state the total annual income which consists of a Basic Pay and supplemented by an enhancement for out of hours as per rota which is the 54471.86 or the Basic Salary which is 39467.00
Thank you

The basic pay £39,467 should be used since this meets the financial requirement so keep it simple.

[AKAM]

Thank you TODMATT for you reply. I really appreciate it. What complicates things for me is that the required employment letter from the NHS HR states his annual salary as 54 471.86. So my question please is how do we explain then the discrepancy in the application if the applicant states his salary as 39 467.00 and then submit a letter from his employer (which is mandatory) stating his annual salary differently.
Can you please or anyone elaborate on that point.
Thank you

[TODMATT]

Thank you TODMATT for you reply. I really appreciate it. What complicates things for me is that the required employment letter from the NHS HR states his annual salary as 54 471.86. So my question please is how do we explain then the discrepancy in the application if the applicant states his salary as 39 467.00 and then submit a letter from his employer (which is mandatory) stating his annual salary differently.
Can you please or anyone elaborate on that point.
Thank you

If someone was earning 54,471.86 a year, you should be getting £4,561 each month. The employer probably did average of his payslips including those overtime, unsocial hours etc together to get that amount on the employment letter but his basic salary reflect the amount above which is £39,567 and that’s the reason why he’s getting £3,288 each month and this basic salary will appear on his last 6 months payslips excluding other overtime, unsocial hours etc. This amount will easily meet the requirement without needing to use those however, there’s no harm in putting £54,471.86 since it will match his employment letter so either option are viable.

[AKAM]

Thank you TOMATT. That was a prompt reply.
Your argument actually makes sense and his pay slips all show that his taxable pay each month is 4613.12 and after deducting the tax and the national insurance contribution the net pay is 3380.
The 3288.92 is the monthly pay for the basic part of the annual salary. This counts towards his pensionable pay. The other un-social hours (which all the NHS junior doctors have to work as part of their Rota) are part of their normal working hours and they are compensated accordingly with a different rate to the basic pay.

This un-social hours pay does not count towards his pensionable pay but is counted when calculating his taxable monthly pay.
That is why in their system they have his annual salary as 54 471.86.

I copied the following from his pay slip


PENSIONABLE PAY 3288.92
TAXABLE PAY 4613.12

PAYE 806.87
NI A 415.52
QEHB Mess Fees 10.00




Monthly TOTAL PAYMENTS 4613.12

TOTAL DEDUCTIONS 1232.39



NET PAY 3380.73

[AKAM]

Hello Board Members
just for an update submitted the application on the 1st week of July 2021 and the applicant had her biometrics in Nairobi, Kenya on the 9th of July 2021.
Today (13th of October 2021) she received an email from the UK Decision Making Centre that "Unfortunately, the processing of your application has not been straightforward and we will be unable to decide your application within our customer service targets. We are continuing to work on your application and aim to make a decision as soon as possible."
I don't see anything not straightforward in her application. Is this a normal practice? Did anyone who applied during that time in Nairobi or in anywhere else receive such an email? and how long did it take anyone who received such email get a decision on their application after this email?
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[TODMATT]

Don’t over burden yourself with stress. There’s nothing with your application, I have seen some other people whose applications have been straightforward received the same email. It might be due to backlog of applications which are still pending. Hang in there

[AKAM]

Don’t over burden yourself with stress. There’s nothing with your application, I have seen some other people whose applications have been straightforward received the same email. It might be due to backlog of applications which are still pending. Hang in there

Thanks TODMATT For your reassurance. I thought so myself but wanted to check with this helpful board members
will sit tight and wait

[AKAM]

This is really beyond comprehension. Today is the 96th day since the biometrics on 9th July. Escalated on the 21st October and received this reply

Dear XXXX XXXXX,

Thank you for your query from the information you have provided, we have escalated your case to the relevant department on 21-10-2021 and you should be contacted within 15 working days. Please wait until the 15 working days have passed before contacting the service again as we are unable to do anything further before this time.

And then 2 Weeks later this is what we get from the UKVI International Escalation :

Thank you for your enquiry, received 21st October 2021, please accept my apologies for the delayed response.

Prior to making a decision on an Entry Clearance application, a number of mandatory checks need to be completed in both the applicant’s home country and the UK. Although we aim to decide all applications within our published service standards, this is not always possible as the length of time taken to complete these checks is dependent on the individual circumstances of each case

It is simply an autogenerated message which has no bearing or any relation to our application.

Escalated again after one month and this is what we received:

Dear XXXXXX, Thank you for your query from the information you have provided, we have escalated your case to the relevant department on **19-11-2021** and you should be contacted within 15 working days. Please wait until the 15 working days have passed before contacting the service again as we are unable to do anything further before this time. We strongly recommend that you do not buy a non-refundable, non-flexible ticket to the UK, until your visa application has been approved and you have received your documents.

The current status of your application is awaiting a decision.
Regards,

At least they added some meaning that the current status is awaiting a decision whatever that means,

Today raised the matter with the OUR MP.

Sorry for the long notes. Just to share it with you and seek if we can do anything else

[AKAM]

Finally Alhamdulilaah Some good news.
After 105 Working days we recieved yesterday an email from the TLS VAC that my daughter in law's passport and supporting documents are ready for collection.
Today collected the documents with the visa vignette.
I hope you all will hear the good news soon and the wait will be over. There is nothing else we can do other than wait and pray. It seems there is a long back log and hopefully it clears soon.
Thanks for your support the wonderful members of this baord.

[TODMATT]

congratulations