Uk Settlement Visa For Tw

[iammelynn]

Hi There,

I’m Thai woman and married to English husband last year Dec. Now, he doesn’t have a regular job because he didn’t do the contact when he was come visit me last year and married me. He doesn’t have saving money also and now he is still looking for a job. He can only work around his neighbor hood. He doesn’t have degree and 26 yo. I want my husband to live here with me and that why my husband have to went back there and do everything he can to save up some money to go back and live here with me by asked thai visa. I’m live in Bangkok and my husband is at UK now.

It seems too difficult to make 40.000 baht a month and I’m not sure that we will make that money or not. I know we must have saving money for do this. We decided to get a divorce because he can come and live here with me. It is a lot of stuff that we have to meet the regulation of Thai immigration. I don’t want my husband to be a homeless when they refuse my husband 1 year extension.

So, my question :

1. Is it is impossible for me to ask for settlement visa at UK (spouse visa)?

2. How much that he must have saving money in the bank and how long that money will stay in the bank?

3. What he has to do to bring me at UK?

4. Is it require that he must has over 1,000 pounds for his job?

5. He must has a job that can write a paper that he work there or something?

I am hopeless right now and I no that we are not qualify for this but I just want some any advice before I have to file for divorce at the court here and send the paper for him so sign there. If he can’t live here and I can’t go to live at UK, we will divorce. Because it is the easy way for not hold each others like this. We can’t not live together even we love each others so much but it is too many requirements for us to live here and there. I take any advice from you guys even you say that we should get a divorce for now.

We plan that after divorced if we have the regular job and saving money enough to file the visa for both of us, we will marry each others again. But we never know how long that we have to save cos the living expense at UK is high too. Please be advice about the settlement visa for me. Thank you so much

Lynn

[the scouser]

There is no reason why you shouldn't apply for a settlement visa. You need to show:-

1. You are married;

2. You have somewhere big enough for the 2 of you to stay;

3. You intend to live together permanently;

4. You have enough money to take care of yourselves.

You don't need to have your own house. If you will be staying with your husband's relatives, all you will need to have is one room in the house that is for your own use. The landlord/owner of the house should provide evidence that it is OK for you and your husband to stay with them.

There is no requirement to have any savings, all your husband needs to show is that he earns enough money to take care of both of you. He does not need to be in a "proper" job, as long as he doesn't have to claim money from the governement to look after you. Also, it doesn't have to be your husband who works. If you have an offer of a job in the UK, your likely salary has to be considered by the visa officer when deciding if you have enough money to take care of yourselves. Again, evidence of your ability to support yourselves should be provided with the application.

All the best,

Scouse.

[GU22]

Lynn,

I'm afraid it appears that you have been hearing horror stories from those who, for reasons of their own, wjish people to believe that getting a UK visa is very difficult.

Don't listen to those people!

Obtaining a visa for the UK is really quite easy; provided you qualify and show that you do. To qualify for a UK spouse visa you basically just have to show 2 things:-

1) The relationship/marriage is real.

2) You can be supported and acommodated from your own resources without using money from the government.

From what you have said I would agree with Scouse that you can easily show both of these.

For more information, see:-

Guidance - Husbands, wives and partners (INF 4)

Chapter 9 – The maintenance and accommodation requirements

CHAPTER 13 - SETTLEMENT : FIANCÉ(E)S, PROPOSED CIVIL PARTNERS, SPOUSES, CIVIL PARTNERS, UNMARRIED AND SAME-SEX PARTNERS

For how to apply see:-

UK Visa Application Centre

Requirement for Tuberculosis Testing for Applicants Visiting the UK for Longer than 6 Months

[atlastaname]

Yes Lynn,

Rightly there are horror stories about getting a UK visa but not so much about the settlement visa which is relatively easy for genuine cases and so you should have no big problems as long as you follow the guidelines given to you above.

Its the visit visa (which doesn't apply to you) thats can be a pig to get as its so much at the whim of the ECO and how he/she CHOOSES to view the evidence presented. Thats why so many people unable to get the Visit Visa are FORCED to marry if they wish to maintain their relationship and live in the UK . Quite unnaccepyable but so many her defend that

[Mahout Angrit]

Thats why so many people unable to get the Visit Visa are FORCED to marry if they wish to maintain their relationship and live in the UK . Quite unnaccepyable but so many her defend that

Atlastaname, you know that you cannot live in the UK on a Visit Visa so if they wanted to maintain their relationship and live in the UK they should have applied for the settlement visa in the first place. It's time now to give up chewing the same old bone and hijacking posts to make a point.

To Lynn

The world must now seem a brighter place, both your options ( to live together in Thailand or the UK) are possible. Good luck

[Mahout Angrit]

Another one who can't/chooses not to read.

Are you saying like GU22 that there have never been loads and loads of cases where the couple have HAD to marry as they failed to get visit visas to maintain their relationships whilst they considered the next step? I have already seen from your posts before that you are another pro-establishment supporter , but now i know you can't read either.

I have not given any opinion on your gripe but would be prepared to do so if you opened a special thread on the subject. Your opinion on that subject is totally irrelevant to this thread and so many others threads where you post the same arguement. The OP is confused enough as it is, it doesn't help when you use her thread as a soapbox.

[the scouser]

Thsi periodic bickering between various members is not only tiresome, but selfish too, as members with genuine enquiries end up having their threads closed/deleted because of the actions of the few.

Please learn to tolerate others' points of view, even if you don't agree, and not to let threads degenerate into petty mudslinging. By all measn state your point of view and let readers determine for themselves with which opinion they agree.

Scouse.

[atlastaname]

Having read the OP's post in the Thai visas , residency and work permits forum , it seems like she doesn't want to come and live in the UK anyway. She and her husband both want to live in Thailand !! Very confusing this one.

I am not doubting her genuiness but reading her posts here and on the other forum i am struck by how sometimes the English is Thai style and sometimes it is flawless English. She makes some simple grammatical errors but at other times gets some very complicated sentences right. Just an observation. Its an interesting story ...go have a look.

If she's real then i say don't give up you will find a way , if shes a troll ..well a good story anyway.

[iammelynn]

Sorry about my Thai english cos I'm not good at this. I want to live with my husband at thailand but I want to have another choice for us if they're not give 1 year extendsion to my husband. It is not easy for my husband to live here also because all requirement things. I think it is difficult for me to live at UK too that's why I want my husband to live at thailand. If he can't come to live at thailand with me, I will go live with him there. I want to know the info about settlement at UK to be a guideline if he can't convert non-o visa to one year visa. I think I can't post my topic here, they will remove my topic soon. They said my husband's unemployed and all i need to contact agency to do the settlement visa.

Thank you to all for your advice. =)

[Mahout Angrit]

I think I can't post my topic here, they will remove my topic soon. They said my husband's unemployed and all i need to contact agency to do the settlement visa.

What do you mean?

Nobody will remove your topic

Who said you need to contact agency? everybody on this forum will advise you not to use an agency

[iammelynn]

What do you mean?

Nobody will remove your topic

Who said you need to contact agency? everybody on this forum will advise you not to use an agency

The forum team told me while I was posting this topic. I don't know why??

[the scouser]

Which forum team? I'm one of the thaivisa moderators, and I've seen no indication from any other moderator that your topic is to be withdrawn. How did they advise you of this? If by either e-mail or PM, please send me a copy of the PM which includes the name of the sender.

Scouse.