Newbie to this forum..
Just this week myself and my wife had the devastating news that the spouse visa we applied for in October has been refused, the worse part is that over the last 12 months I have earned over £19,000.00.
My problem is that my lowest monthly income is £1,514.81 but I top up my salary with overtime and bonuses, and so the ECO has dismissed my gross salary completely when they refused my wife from entering the UK.
Their refusal letter contained:
I chose category B as I couldn't apply under category A, I supplied a years worth of payslips and bank records, those showed £19,172.15 earned and my P60 showed £19,278.89 over 2011-2012.Your sponsor is not exempt from the financial requirements as defined paragraph E-ECP.3.3. I am not able to to take into account any potential employment you have available to you in the UK or any offers of financial support from third parties. In order to meet the financial requirements of the rules your sponsor needs a gross income at least £18,600 per annum. From the evidence provided your sponsor's gross income from his employment with XXX is £17,715.00 per annum which is not sufficient to meet the financial requirements. Therefore in order to qualify, you and your sponsor will require £18,212.50 in savings in order to meet the financial requirements. You have provided evidence that your sponsor holds £856.99 in his Bank account and this was the closing balance of this account on 14th September 2012, however this amount is not sufficient to meet the financial requirements. You have submitted no other evidence to show you and your sponsor meet the financial requirements therefore I refuse your application under paragraph EC-P.1.1 (d) of appendix FM of the immigration rules. (E-ECP.3.1)
However, it seems that they don't count overtime and bonuses. Or at least in my case they didn't. Or perhaps it was because I have been employed with the same company for 7 years?
So how do you guys think I can appeal?