Hi Just wanna know if someone here successfully applied for fiance visa with financial requirement exemption? My fiance is currently on DLA.he is not working and on state pension..im so worried that my application will be refused on financial grounds..been to uk earlier this year on a visit visa..i travelled with my british son and came back here alone to finish my course..leaving our son to his dad..missing them so much and cant afford not to see them by nxt year..
Read 3.6 of the attached, your sponsor being on DLA should make him exempt from meeting the financial requirement, you have to evidence that he is receiving this benefit and also evidence that he can adequately maintain you. And welcome to the forum
I think when the form mentions adequate maintenance it means your sponsor needs to have around £120 left over per week after his rent etc, has been paid, this of course will be out of his benefit. You will have to provide evidence of this, the financial requirement is very important as you probably already know. I know one or two people on the forum have had successful applications where the sponsor has been on DLA.
My partner is currently on PIP (sorry not dla but same thing) £304 a month StatePension of £140 a week Child tax of £64 a week Child benefit of £21 per week House Benefit £130 per week Will this mean we can meet the adequate maintenance requirement?
It looks like you would meet the requirements, you will have to read and fully understand the requirements in this category, the chap who could give you some definitive answers on the forum is himself sick and has not posted for a while.
H Ohhh...wish him fast recovery and be back on track soon..hoping he could give me some advice base on his application..
if you add that lot up it works out to more than the £18,600 a year sponsorship requirement he would need to earn if he were working ! all you can really do is make the visa application and see what happens.
That's an invaluable (forgive the pun!) piece of info Timmers , but is any figure ACTUALLY MENTIONED ANYWHERE in the guidelines? I realise the amount will rise, e.g. with inflation, each year but an idea of what 'disposable income' you might be expected to have in order to adequately support a Fiance(e) - no dependents (yet!) on either side in our case - is absolute 'gold'... I'm gonna get the calculator out right now! Apart from - as you mention - rent (or mortgage I guess, if appropriate?), what other monthly/weekly expenses should I tally-up, to arrive at the figure left over each month? Groceries, fuel (car), utilities - Gas/electric/water, Council tax, SKY/TV licence - what else might be considered a regular outgoing???
Timmers - In the document you have linked to it says (at Paragraph 3.6.4), "... The relevant guidance is set out in IDI Chapter 8 section 1.7a." IDI (Immigration Directorate Instruction???) - I can't find Chapter 8 (PART 8 is 'Family Members'?) or Section 1.7a ANYWHERE. Can you help with a link?
Yeah, I ended up at Pensions at one point, too, Mattecube... can't remember how I got there now! Sadly, the rate at which the Rules & Reg's are changed means many of the links posted on here are very quickly obsolete...! The number of Appendices doesn't help either... Maybe someone else will 'chip in' with a current link to where IDI Chapter 8 section 1.7a - or its replacement - is now?
https://www.gov.uk/government/colle...he-rules-immigration-directorate-instructions https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chapter-17-section-2-carers
