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dan1988uk wrote:Hi, you must be a British citizen or hold Permanent Residence in the UK to sponsor your spouse for a family visa, and you must earn the threshold amount to show that you can support yourself and your spouse (18.600£ per year).
EEA Family permit is free and personally I think it's easier. You can sponsor your spouse just showing them that:
1) your relationship is genuine
2) you intend to live together with your spouse
3) you live in the UK exercising treaty right
When we applied for my wife I haven't been living in the UK so I applied as a "jobseeker" (I wrote a cover letter explaining them that I want to find a job in the UK and I want my wife with me). You are already in the UK so you just have to show that you are a "qualified person", and you have a job, so you are, no matter when you started working.
We also attached pictures of us and our families and Facebook posts and comments.
Good luck, viel glück!
You must be getting confused with EU law. Under British law, as thrown together by the Home Office clearly without any proper scrutiny by Parliament*:dan1988uk wrote:EEA Family permit is free and personally I think it's easier. You can sponsor your spouse just showing them that:
1) your relationship is genuine
2) you intend to live together with your spouse
3) you live in the UK exercising treaty right
The relationship may be genuine, but the marriage may still be one of convenience!Immigration (EEA) Rules 2016 wrote:“marriage of convenience” includes a marriage entered into for the purpose of using these Regulations, or any other right conferred by the EU Treaties, as a means to circumvent—
(a) immigration rules applying to non-EEA nationals (such as any applicable requirement under the 1971 Act to have leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom); or
(b) any other criteria that the party to the marriage of convenience would otherwise have to meet in order to enjoy a right to reside under these Regulations or the EU Treaties;
One or two are enough + a letter from your employer that states that you are working there.jessy_h93 wrote:Hey dan thank you for your advice. Do you know how many payslips I got to show them when I'll be making the application? Or does it not matter as long as I have a job?
dan1988uk wrote:Hi, you must be a British citizen or hold Permanent Residence in the UK to sponsor your spouse for a family visa, and you must earn the threshold amount to show that you can support yourself and your spouse (18.600£ per year).
EEA Family permit is free and personally I think it's easier. You can sponsor your spouse just showing them that:
1) your relationship is genuine
2) you intend to live together with your spouse
3) you live in the UK exercising treaty right
When we applied for my wife I haven't been living in the UK so I applied as a "jobseeker" (I wrote a cover letter explaining them that I want to find a job in the UK and I want my wife with me). You are already in the UK so you just have to show that you are a "qualified person", and you have a job, so you are, no matter when you started working.
We also attached pictures of us and our families and Facebook posts and comments.
Good luck, viel glück!
Once you provide evidences that your relationship is genuine like pictures, Facebook posts and messages, etc. how can they prove that the marriage is on convenience?Richard W wrote:You must be getting confused with EU law. Under British law, as thrown together by the Home Office clearly without any proper scrutiny by Parliament*:dan1988uk wrote:EEA Family permit is free and personally I think it's easier. You can sponsor your spouse just showing them that:
1) your relationship is genuine
2) you intend to live together with your spouse
3) you live in the UK exercising treaty rightThe relationship may be genuine, but the marriage may still be one of convenience!Immigration (EEA) Rules 2016 wrote:“marriage of convenience” includes a marriage entered into for the purpose of using these Regulations, or any other right conferred by the EU Treaties, as a means to circumvent—
(a) immigration rules applying to non-EEA nationals (such as any applicable requirement under the 1971 Act to have leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom); or
(b) any other criteria that the party to the marriage of convenience would otherwise have to meet in order to enjoy a right to reside under these Regulations or the EU Treaties;
*Parliament had the opportunity, but from the howlers it seems not to have been availed of.
Don't be so sure - see https://www.freemovement.org.uk/genuine ... igh-court/