This is great survey your friend is running, i am in a similar situation partly. My wife earns above the 18600 threshold, but we do not have any children yet, i have overstayed that is why i couldn't apply under the FLR(M). My wife's parents are from my home country, but my wife has got a British passport, though we are still awaiting the Positive outcome of the application from the home office even though its now over 13 weeks since application was sent.Casa wrote:I have a friend who is running a survey on people not meeting the 18,600 requirement (without kids) and their spouse has been granted under the new 10 year route. He knows of applicants who are being refused so wants to see if this route is purely set up to refuse applicants stating they can live abroad etc. He's trying to find if people not meeting the 18,600 requirement (without kids) and their spouse has been granted leave under the new 10 year route.
Mainly these refusals appear to be where the settled spouse is originally from the same country as the applicant. Therefore they state you can live abroad etc.
I think in a situation whereby the applicant and their sponsor doesn't meet the financial threshold and they don't have kids, the HO expects that they state any insurmountable circumstance/s why it would be dangerous to send them back home. One question though:::: What were the circumstances of the cases where the applicant was granted on the 10 yr route even though they don't have kids or earn the necessary amount ?