ILR (Spouse of British Citizen / Family route) - Income!

[bokishai]

Hello everyone,

Firstly, Happy New Year and Best wishes to all!

My wife is eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) in Jun-24. She is currently on a spouse visa (family route) and has all the necessary paperwork to apply for ILR. She is currently employed & I have a question regarding the income slab.

My wife currently earns around £27k and my salary is around £70k annually respectively.
As per Gov.UK:
Financial requirements if you’re on the 5 year route
You and your partner must usually have a combined income of at least £18,600 a year.


Now, considering the current financial requirements and the new income change for spouse visas (£29k from £18600) which is planned to be implemented in spring this year, I wanted to seek some clarifications and advise:
1) Firstly, does this increase also applies the spouse ILR application on family route?
2) If my wife uses her income proof .i.e. £27k for the ILR application then will there be any impacts on her application if she only uses her income and not ours together?
2) And, now if we use both our income for the application is it required that salary earned by me is for job in UK OR it can be outside of UK too?

The reason to raise the above questions is because I have been offered a role outside of UK and they expect to me join them in April-24. It is a good offer but my acceptance of the offer depends if my wife's ILR application is not impacted due to the income changes expected in spring.

Any guidance on the above is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

[zimba]

1) This has been repeated many times here but NOTHING has been announced. This is all speculative at the moment. So until changes are officially announced no one knows
2) An applicant may rely on their salary. She does not need to include yours at all
3) The requirement for ILR is that you want to settle in the UK. The expectation is that you would be living together here in the UK and settle here. That is the whole point of ILR, so I suggest against any such move until at least her ILR is secured