Uk Settlement Financial Question

[glastoglen]

Could anyone clarify the following?

When the applicants partner(spouse) is returning to the UK after working in Thailand can the applicant's income be combined with the applicant's partner's income to satisfy the income requirements.

For example the applicant has a salary of 20,000 baht and the applicant's partner has a salary of 60,000 baht giving an annual income of approx 21,000 pounds. The applicant's partner also has an offer of employment with a slary of 24,000 pounds when returning to the UK.

Would this satisfy the financial requirements?

Thanks

Edited May 19, 2013 by glastoglen

[ThaiVisaExpress]

The answer is no. Only the sponsor's income can be taken into account to meet the financial requirement.

[glastoglen]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Can two sources of earned income be combined? For example can a salary be topped up with earnings from a part time job?

Thanks again

[ThaiVisaExpress]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Can two sources of earned income be combined? For example can a salary be topped up with earnings from a part time job?

Thanks again

Are you talking about jobs in Thailand ? Basically, the answer is yes, but you have to document the income, just as you would if you were a sponsor working in the UK. That means, showing the job is a proper job ( providing a contract or something similar), salary earned ( by wage slips or whatever), and showing it paid into your bank account for a minimum of 6 months.

That is a very basic precis of what you will need, but the answer is yes, if you can prove it.

[chris1101]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Can two sources of earned income be combined? For example can a salary be topped up with earnings from a part time job?

Thanks again

Are you talking about jobs in Thailand ? Basically, the answer is yes, but you have to document the income, just as you would if you were a sponsor working in the UK. That means, showing the job is a proper job ( providing a contract or something similar), salary earned ( by wage slips or whatever), and showing it paid into your bank account for a minimum of 6 months.

That is a very basic precis of what you will need, but the answer is yes, if you can prove it.

ThaiVisaExpress - I have sent you twp emails over the last couple of weeks? Are you in a position to reply please?

[ThaiVisaExpress]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Can two sources of earned income be combined? For example can a salary be topped up with earnings from a part time job?

Thanks again

Are you talking about jobs in Thailand ? Basically, the answer is yes, but you have to document the income, just as you would if you were a sponsor working in the UK. That means, showing the job is a proper job ( providing a contract or something similar), salary earned ( by wage slips or whatever), and showing it paid into your bank account for a minimum of 6 months.

That is a very basic precis of what you will need, but the answer is yes, if you can prove it.

ThaiVisaExpress - I have sent you twp emails over the last couple of weeks? Are you in a position to reply please?

I just assist Thai Visa Express on the forum here. I will check with the office.

Tony M

[ThaiVisaExpress]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Can two sources of earned income be combined? For example can a salary be topped up with earnings from a part time job?

Thanks again

Are you talking about jobs in Thailand ? Basically, the answer is yes, but you have to document the income, just as you would if you were a sponsor working in the UK. That means, showing the job is a proper job ( providing a contract or something similar), salary earned ( by wage slips or whatever), and showing it paid into your bank account for a minimum of 6 months.

That is a very basic precis of what you will need, but the answer is yes, if you can prove it.

ThaiVisaExpress - I have sent you twp emails over the last couple of weeks? Are you in a position to reply please?

I just assist Thai Visa Express on the forum here. I will check with the office.

Tony M

The office has replied to you. Either you put the wrong email address on the contact form, or the emails have gone into your "junk" box

[ThaiVisaExpress]

Please reply to [email protected] you keep inserting the wrong email address.

[TCA]

Rather than start a new thread I wonder if I might ask a related question here regarding the financial requirement for a settlement visa.

A friend wants to sponsor his fiancee's application and was made redundant from his UK job in May last year. He hasn't worked since then but is now about to start full-time UK employment again. From section FM 1.7:

"If the sponsor is in the UK and relying on their employment income, they must be in employment at the point of application (with a gross annual salary which meets the financial requirement alone or in combination with other permitted sources) and either:

have been so continuously for the previous six months or,

if employed for less than six months, have also received over the previous 12 months the level of income required through gross salaried income and/or other permitted sources."

So the second part applies but he won't meet the £18,600 requirement (through the previous 12 months earnings) unless his redundancy payment from May last year is included. Can anyone confirm whether this can be included as part of "gross salaried income" or "other permitted sources"?

He cannot meet the financial requirement though any other means, other than waiting 6 months.

Edited January 26, 2014 by TCA

[Tony M]

The answer will be "no", unless the redundancy payment meets the savings requirement of 62,500 GBP ?

[TCA]

Thanks Tony. No, the redundancy cash was invested elsewhere (in a business) and is unlikely to be liberated for some time, so he doesn't qualify under the savings requirement. The total of his "normal" monthly gross salaried employment over the last year (excluding the lump sum redundancy payment) will not meet the £18,600 income level, so I guess he has nothing to do but wait. Or they apply for another tourist visa meantime. Cheers.