Need to return to UK indefinetly

[pfjc1000]

Thanks all once again for your help, much appreciated. I think we'll just go over without the wife having a VISA. If we stay longer or she needs to work, we'll have to get the relevant VISA

Cheers

[Jurls]

Unfortunately, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if your return is indefinately, I believe your wife will require a spouse visa.

Laws introduced last month make this a nightmare for the likes of yourself wishing to return. Minimum salary with no dependant children is GBP18600, and I believe this must be guaranteed and a steady income. Unsure of you must have been in your role for a minimum period, earning this amount, before you can apply.

It may mean you moving back, working for specified period, before you can apply for your wifes visa to join you. If you are going back to no job, you need to have had this amount x 3 (almost GBP60000), in your bank account for a minimum of 6 months before you apply.

It is not good, it is not pretty and I wish you the best of luck.

Personally I would seek the assistance of an immigration agent. Feel free to PM me and I can give you details of a guy in London who just helped us secure my wifes visa (just before the new laws were introduced).

This is the situation we are in. We want to go back in the next few years (as I'm an only child) and we will be snagged by these new rules. I am infuriated that my home country would like to make it that difficult for me to live there with my husband. We have made a point of ensuring the kids have British passports so it is only my husband who requires a visa. I have no idea how I would be supposed to go and get a job in advance, especially as I'm currently a SAHM. What do I do with the children, am I likely to get a high paying job when returning to work (haha I think not). The whole thing is ridiculous and merely set up so they can cut immigration numbers which have increased because of the foolhardy idea of opening the borders to Europe. Now it is genuine citizens who will suffer.

[fallguy]

Get your husband to go to France (or any other country...but France is nearest) & jump on a boat to the UK!! If it works here in OZ it will defo work in UK!! Our aussie mate here in Perth (who we met in the UK..small world!!) has just married a Swedish girl who was raised & did all her schooling in Perth, but she is only allowed a visa that does not allow her to work, which is surely putting strain on the newlyweds finances. I could understand if it was buy-a-bride, but she has spent most of her life in OZ, her accent is stronger than some true blue Aussies!! End of the day if you are honest & straight as a dye, you get persecuted. If you duck'n'dive and bend the laws....life is sweet!!

Good luck sorting out this unnessesary mess out....bit too late to strengthen the UK's borders... the horse bolted decades ago!!!

[wakeboard1980]

This is the situation we are in. We want to go back in the next few years (as I'm an only child) and we will be snagged by these new rules. I am infuriated that my home country would like to make it that difficult for me to live there with my husband. We have made a point of ensuring the kids have British passports so it is only my husband who requires a visa. I have no idea how I would be supposed to go and get a job in advance, especially as I'm currently a SAHM. What do I do with the children, am I likely to get a high paying job when returning to work (haha I think not). The whole thing is ridiculous and merely set up so they can cut immigration numbers which have increased because of the foolhardy idea of opening the borders to Europe. Now it is genuine citizens who will suffer.

I do feel for people in your position. It was only really by chance that I came across the changes as I had to change visas as the one I am currently on is causing mortgage issues. I lodged my visa the 2nd week of june, so got in by a couple of weeks before the rules changed.

I don't have a clue how its going to work, like you say how is someone like you going to make it work, we would have been in the same situation as my wife is a SAHM like you. I reckon it will have to change, there will be lots of complaints about it so they will do something. They have also extended the 'probationary' period as well to I think 5 years???? It used to be 2 before you could apply for perm res.