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by M6J44 » Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:59 am
Dear Amber,
I posted this comment in another thread under username Siren (after I had previously lost my old login details so wanted to make sure you get the picture as well here but if it is thought I am needlessly repeating myself then feel free to delete this comment).
I write to update you on the outcome of my wife's ILR visa application.
I have written quite extensively on a couple or more threads here in the Claiming Benefits section requesting help and advice on how to approach the ILR visa when I - as my wife's sponsor - have claimed, during the two year probationary period, HB and CTB and the council refused to assess my claim as ‘single person’ (resulting in the increase in PF).
Here's one of the original posts (
claiming-benefits-f38/benefits-affecting-ilr-read-before-starting-new-topic-t26916-120.html#p674621 )
Well, thanks be to God after 4 months of waiting, my wife and I were delighted to return home after a short break to find that her settlement (ILR) visa has been granted.
In our thoroughly exhaustive (yes and exhausting!!) application, we detailed all the benefit I had received (HB, CTB, WTC) complete with letters from the council showing the increased amounts as a result of my wife's presence and decreased amounts after she began earning.
As previously stated, my wife worked as an unpaid volunteer for 7 months shortly after her arrival in the UK before being taken on PT by the organisation she was volunteering for. I work self employed as a sports arbitrage trader which, although is not gambling (it is risk free ie you cannot lose your money), does nevertheless involve betting. So we didn't have the most conventional or necessarily if one wanted to take it that way - convincing of income situations. However, despite our tenuous position and unfortunate reliance on PF's which did increase as a result of the wife's presence - with your help - we were still ultimately able to succeed in her ILR application.
I want to thank you, Amber (and John) in particular and all those who have contributed here on this forum for all your hard work and kindness instructing me and others with your very well informed guidance on the tricky juxtaposition of benefits and immigration - without such help our situation would have been so much more difficult and unthinkably frustrating even as much as it has been those things anyway.
So thank you for all your support. I hope this information is helpful to you and your collective knowledge in helping others in a similar situation unsure of how to proceed with benefits and immigration.
Wishing you all similar success,
Best wishes
Simon