URGENT: FLR(M) - Maintenance Requirements.

[AO]

Hi There:

I had my visa recently converted to ILR. My wife is still on the PBS Tier 1 visa so needs to move to FLR(M) for a few months before she can apply for ILR. We're both inside the UK right now but plan to travel abroad for a month or so.

I wanted to find out about the Maintenance Requirement for FLR(M) applied from inside the country. While Maintenance funds for PBS was quite straight forward (£x in the bank account) the maintenance for FLR(M) is a lot fuzzy and leaves a lot of discretion to the case worker. What does 20 months of maintainability mean? How do the case workers generally assess employability of the main applicant and the spouse?

Can anyone with experience elaborate a bit?

Also, what difference would it make if we went out of the country and applied from outside the UK? Does that affect her continued status in anyway? I know she can't come back into the country on the PBS Dependent visa so we need to do it before she travels back but would going out, in any way, affect her residency requirements (start the clock all over again)?

Much appreciated.

-A.

[vinny]

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