Stupid Question About Uk Settlement Visa

[iammelynn]

First, I want to thank you everybody that give me some advice about settlement visa and we just want to try this visa instead of divorce. You guys just gave us some hope that we can together but I have a question.

-----My husband rent the house nearly 3 years from government council and he is on a contract till he died. I asked him that this house related to some kind of public funds or not. He said no because he pay the rent every month but I think this maybe some kind of public funds at UK. I just want to make sure that the house he rent is under public funds or not? Anybody know! If it is under public funds, we can not ask for settlement visa. I just don’t want to waste money for the application because I know I will not get it.

------Since my husband went back to UK, we were contact each others thru email system. We talked about 4-8 hours everyday when we have time. I have 7,000 messages in my email box. We never used phone card to call each other because we just chat on MSN a lot and u can use voice chat on MSN too. He sent me a message to my cell phone sometime by using free website. I called him sometime on my phone but I don’t have any prove to tell them that I called my husband number. I mean I don’t have any bill statement for my phone. Is this gonna be a big problem for us that not talking on the phone like the others? It seems like we don’t have a real relationship or something. I read thru this forum and many couples they were talking on the phone but we are not.

-----Last one, my husband got a job and he get pay £900 a month. Is this a lot or not at all? If this amount not okay to ask for settlement visa, we will drop everything right now. I just don’t want my husband working too hard for nothing.

I apologized for long post but I really don’t know anything about this. Thanks for your advice. =)

[the scouser]

My husband rent the house nearly 3 years from government council and he is on a contract till he died. I asked him that this house related to some kind of public funds or not. He said no because he pay the rent every month but I think this maybe some kind of public funds at UK. I just want to make sure that the house he rent is under public funds or not? Anybody know!

No, having the tenancy of a council house is not considered to be reliance on public funds.

Since my husband went back to UK, we were contact each others thru email system. We talked about 4-8 hours everyday when we have time. I have 7,000 messages in my email box. We never used phone card to call each other because we just chat on MSN a lot and u can use voice chat on MSN too. He sent me a message to my cell phone sometime by using free website. I called him sometime on my phone but I don’t have any prove to tell them that I called my husband number. I mean I don’t have any bill statement for my phone. Is this gonna be a big problem for us that not talking on the phone like the others? It seems like we don’t have a real relationship or something. I read thru this forum and many couples they were talking on the phone but we are not.

In your covering letter explain what you've just written here. Also, if you've saved the MSN chat history, perhaps you can print it and submit it with your application.

Last one, my husband got a job and he get pay £900 a month. Is this a lot or not at all? If this amount not okay to ask for settlement visa, we will drop everything right now. I just don’t want my husband working too hard for nothing.

It's not really a question of whether your husband's income is a lot, but whether it is enough to take care of the two of you. Once you are in the UK, your husband can claim Working Tax Credit on your behalf, or you can work, too.

All the best,

Scouse.

[Mahout Angrit]

Lynn

Your direct questions have been answered so....

As long as your husband is established in the UK he can sponsor you (his wife) to join him in the UK. By established, it means he should have a job, a place to live which is big enough to house you both and a steady cash flow in his bank account. He doesn't have to be rich. If he is managing to support himself at the moment from his income then I would argue that it doesn't cost any more for the two of you to live together. (and you would save your Thailand costs)

The expensive things in UK are housing, electricity, water, heating and transport. He has to pay these expenses now and if you were living with him the cost for those things would be the same. Food and clothing can be as cheap or cheaper than Thailand (you can still have your B10 mama noodles in the UK if you are poor!)

All the responses to you from this forum have been positive and have tried to encourage you, I suggest to you that you must be positive also, not so depressive. If you are called to interview for your settlement visa DO NOT keep mentioning divorce as you do in your posts here as an alternative to getting a visa.

Being poor is not a reason to refuse you a Visa but showing you do not have a strong relationship and a will to be together is.

Go for it ........Good luck

[iammelynn]

I would like to thanks scouser, mahout and everybody sooooo much that gave me some advices and make me have some hope to be with my husband again. We don’t want to divorce. That is the last thing we want to do if we don’t have a choice. I love him so much and I don’t care about money that he has. I will go for it!! My husband is now happy when he heard this news also. =). Wish me luck! Thank you so much to make us smile again. I don’t know how to thanks you guys after I read your advices.

Lynn