Financial Requirement for Spouse Visa

Hello Everyone!!

I would like to ask if there is a certain amount of savings that is required / needed to be presented as part of the documents to be submitted for Spouse visa? like for example, bank statement should at least show £3000 as savings for the past 6 months?

I am not sure though if this will matter during the application for the spouse visa. Or just meeting the annual gross income plus the 6 months bank satatements is enough to make sure that the application will pass the UKVA

thanks for the reply!!

Proof of savings are not required in any of the visa applications where you are solely relying on earnings to meet the financial requirement.

As you have posted, the six months bank statements and payslips are part of the proof required to show you meet the £18,600 (spouse only) requirement. Always good to submit the sponsors P60 too as further backup as well.

Yes. When we applied in 2011 proof of savings was required in addition to income. But that stopped a couple of years ago and now, as Timmers says, it is only a requirement if you dont meet the income requirement.

Hello Timmers!

Thanks again for the information regarding Spouse Financial requirements!

I believe you replied to one of my post asking what is P60, thank you for the information as well.

I just need further clarifications regarding the P60. The P60 document is a document that states that the sponsor has been working for a long time since this is a document for annual tax, did i get it right? Thus, it must at least show that previously (2014) my husband has been earning the gross annual salary requirement of 18600 pounds in which 2014 P60 will be released this 2015?

But what it that did not showed that last year my husband was not earning enough? Can we not submit the P60 of 2014 and 6 months 2015 payslip as supporting financial requirement documents?

Hope to hear from anyone who has knowledge.

Thanks a lot!

P60 is an annual statement for the complete tax year that states gross salary / earnings aswell as PAYE tax paid. It is proof of employment income but is only issued in April each year.

Yes. So he should be getting his soon if he hasnt got it already. Good timing.

Hi everyone i just want to ask about the financial requirements because my husband dont have much savings n the bank but his salary is £27000 annualy
and we will apply for spouse visa with child dependant...its that ok even we dont have enough savings? Thanks in advance

youre husbands salary exceeds the requirement for a spouse and one child--therefore no savings are needed. simple as that.

Oh ok thank you

A P60 only shows employment income and will not for example show any additional self-employment earnings

Hi JohnAsh!

Thanks for the response.

My husband got his 2014 P60 already and it showed 15970 pounds last year gross income but his 2015 payslips (January-May) shows that he earns more than what is required in the financial support of the application for the year 2015. Can we still proceed with applying for our spouse visa application?

Hope to hear from knowlegeable ones the soonest.

you need to submit 6 months payslips--you only have 5 so far---so wait a bit longer

Hi Bigmac!

Thank you for the response.

So the P60 document for the year 2014 will not cause any harm to us if we just submit the payslip of the husband for this year (January 2015-June 2015) since the 2014 P60 did not show it meet the gross financial requirement for spouse application?

Do you need to submit last year's P60?

If it's below requirements then I don't see the point unless they require it.

i agree--its a negative thing. just proves that last year he didnt meet the target---so--no point. just concentrate on this current 6 months.--make sure it adds up to over the threshold.

Hi Maharg,

I am not sure if submitting last year's P60 is a mandatory requirement for the spouse financial visa requirement. I just seen some others saying they have submitted theirs along side with the 6 months payslip that sums up to £18600 annual gross income.

do you have any idea if last years p60 is a mandatory requirement though?

Not sure that it is. The reason being as it is only issued once a year in April. If you have sufficient payslips and a letter from your employer then that should suffice.

I know the rules do change over time, but we only submitted payslips and an employers letter as our application went in in September so there was no point in submitting a P60.

a p60 shows your total annual income------it does not show the length of time it took to earn it. a sponsor has to prove the income was over a 6 month period.--hence 6 months payslips.

I'm self employed and don't use a p60, so I'm not the best person to answer that.

But from what I've read and wat the others have said, it's not a neccesity.

It seems that the savings part of the form should not be filled in (i.e. left blank) if the salary exceeds the requirement. My salary is lots more than is required and the instructions on the form seem to indicate that I should ignore the other parts of the form (for savings and pension). Am I correct?

You are correct.