Hi and thanks to Thai visa and its members ive been learning alot over the past few days. Im needing to know the differences if any regarding the finantial requirements between the first settlement visa and the following extention visa. Its all quite confusing but finaly getting my head around it. I found an interesting chart from a member on here but cant find it again which explained this, also the differences for the indefinite leave to remain but i cant find it again. It contained interesting info about what can be added to what to reach the amount Thanks in advance for any help.

Basically the requirements are the same for the initial visa, the extension (FLR) and the final ILR.

The differences are:-

• for the initial visa only the sponsor's earnings can be used; but for both FLR and ILR the applicant's earnings, if any, can be used as well as the sponsor's;
• if using cash savings, then for the initial visa and FLR the first £16,500 cannot be used, but for ILR it can.

Full details can be found here.