I have another thread on the family members board, but thought that this board would be better suited for a more specific couple of questions on the general costs. We're trying to plan out how much everythin' is likely to cost when we start doin' everythin' so we know well in advance.
I'm 20 and Scottish, she's 18 and american.
***We plan on marrying sometime next year in the US (to avoid bringing her here just to send her back to apply for visas and then bring her back here yet again, to save plane ticket costs)
After I finish my first year in college next year, I'll ideally try to find a job and move to RoI. This is because with arbitrary border control limits on age, I can't bring her to Scotland as i'd like to until she's 21, and neither of us wnat to wait 3 pointless years if we can help it, so living together in Ireland until then seems the perfect solution.
Now the main things I'm wondering are:
What kind of income will I need to be making for the government to be happy I can sustain us both? People said that I can get any job at all, even working in some McDonalds, but others said I'd need around £105 a week after taxes and rent, which would mean I'd probably need to earn about £300 a week, which is well, well above minimum wage and far more than I'm likely to be able to ever earn w/ my (lack of) qualifications.
I've considered live-in jobs at hotels (as I'm working in one now in Scotland), but not sure how they'd handle her coming here in that situation.
Would she be allowed to work immediatly after arriving, as I've heard? If so, would that lighten the load of the income requirements?
The other main question is how much it would actually cost to bring her here. With all this red tape crap and these forms and visas costing increasingly high amounts at every new form we fill out, every form of visa other than tourist seems to be blatant extortion so we'll need to save up hard to cover it, but have no idea how much it'd cost.
How much would it likely cost for her visas and such to remain with me?
***A question she asked on the other post but hasn't been answered yet, and suits this board:
Marryin' in the US is goin' to cost a fortune as well either way, she's been wondering what exactly the laws are on marrying in Ireland. The main thing she's wonderin' is if she'd be forced to return home after the marriage and fill out the forms there, then return here (making it not worth the while with the plane costs), and if that's possible, if she could simply come over here if/when I find a job and get married, then stay in Ireland with me?
I know that's kinda long-winded, but we're havin' so much trouble findin' answers to these things as the rules change like every year, I'm jus' tryin' to make sure I'm specific.
Thanks for any help at all, folks.
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