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browneyedbazzi

Marriage alone won't guarantee that she gets a visa that allows her to live and work in the UK. You need to contact a proper immigration advisor and get professional advice on your situation.

KME91

The UK Border Agency has all the info you need on their website. Your wife, once you're married, will have the option to apply for indefinite leave to remain in the country. The alternative is that she or both of you leave the country once her current visa is expired. You will have to show you can support her financially by earning a minimum amount, currently £18600 per year, and she will have to meet all the other requirements. She may have to return to the US to apply, although there are some categories of visa for which application from within the UK are accepted. It depends what visa she's currently in the UK on and whether she's still in status and meeting the conditions of that visa. She should not overstay her visa deadline, this will almost certainly work against her when applying for leave to remain.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/partners-families/citizens-settled/spouse-cp/

Marriage is no guarantee of right to remain, but if she is turned down to remain here you do have the option of going with her to the US, and applying for an immigrant or non immigrant spouse's visa over there.

sazzybum

Hi, my husband is Australian, and we married in April this year. His visa ran out end of May. I'm afraid it all sounds very easy on the Border Agency website, but it's been frustrating and difficult. We ended up having to get our MP involved.

As above, she will have to earn AT LEAST 18600 a year-or one of you will in order to support both of you. We both work full time, and earn 30 odd K between us, but they still kept asking for payslips, P60s, bank statements-many times.

What they ask for on the website is the bare minimum-as well as their 700 quid fee.-they will come back to you to request three months of bank statements, proof that you're living as man and wife (6 official sources) proof of their name on a rent book or account, council tax statements, driving licence, birth cert, marriage cert. Luckily we had been living together for 4 years before getting married, but the problem was it was my 'single' name that was still on everything. They will also send her to a 'biometric testing centre' for her fingerprints and photo to be taken- at extra cost of course-about 25 pounds.

Anyhow after 4 months of toing and froing-he got leave to remain for 30 months, with the delightful opportunity to do it all again..


Advice from one who has done it all recently? Make an appointment at the Border Agency Centre- they're all over the UK. Go see them, and ask. Don't phone- they don't have a clue. But that's a WHOLE other story....:rotfl:

ValHaller

sazzybum wrote: »

Hi, my husband is Australian, and we married in April this year. His visa ran out end of May. I'm afraid it all sounds very easy on the Border Agency website, but it's been frustrating and difficult. We ended up having to get our MP involved.

As above, she will have to earn AT LEAST 18600 a year-or one of you will in order to support both of you. We both work full time, and earn 30 odd K between us, but they still kept asking for payslips, P60s, bank statements-many times.

What they ask for on the website is the bare minimum-as well as their 700 quid fee.-they will come back to you to request three months of bank statements, proof that you're living as man and wife (6 official sources) proof of their name on a rent book or account, council tax statements, driving licence, birth cert, marriage cert. Luckily we had been living together for 4 years before getting married, but the problem was it was my 'single' name that was still on everything. They will also send her to a 'biometric testing centre' for her fingerprints and photo to be taken- at extra cost of course-about 25 pounds.

Anyhow after 4 months of toing and froing-he got leave to remain for 30 months, with the delightful opportunity to do it all again..


Advice from one who has done it all recently? Make an appointment at the Border Agency Centre- they're all over the UK. Go see them, and ask. Don't phone- they don't have a clue. But that's a WHOLE other story....:rotfl:

When we take notice of the tabloids banging on about anything - in this case immigration - and we get all agitated about it, we only make a rod for our own backs.

For every ounce of grief the UKBA has given to foreigners, I am sure it has given 2 ounces to UK citizens. My employer keeps on demanding my passport with threats of dismissal but cannot even explain how the law demands that they keep a copy of my passport.

DigForVictory

Check your wedding insurance. If they cover postponed celebrations while the couple get visas sorted, you are fortunate.

That said, you're working towards a degree, you've found each other - you're off to a blinking good start!
All the very best of luck!

Gigglepig

If you are a student you might not be able to support her... Until you get a full time job after your degree? Might be good to explore the US visa system also, in case you have difficulties living together here.

kacie

Gigglepig wrote: »

If you are a student you might not be able to support her... Until you get a full time job after your degree? Might be good to explore the US visa system also, in case you have difficulties living together here.

I'm doing it the other way around and going to live with him in America, and it isn't easy that way either, nor is it cheap! Although unlike the Uk the US does let you have a co-sponser if you don't make the required amount.

RAS

Both yourself and your fiancee need to realise that getting married will not automatically permit her to live in the UK and even if she is here she may not be allowed to work.

It is illegal to give immigration advice in the UK unless you are registered with the Home Office and then only at the level to which you are registered.

You will have immigration advisors at your university, so need to talk to them and see if you can get any advice from them (they may be limited to advice on how to obtain student visas).

Otherwise go and see people at the Border Agency Centres as advised.

Gigglepig

Youbare right kacie the US would be expensive as well. But OP's girlfriend has already finished her course so she could perhaps apply for full time jobs right away, while OP is still in his final year of uni. So they could perhaps hedge their bets if she got a full time job there, in case OP does not get a sufficiently well paid job in the UK immediately after his degree.

DS4215

Its probably easier to spend a couple of years living in the EU with her, then moving back into the UK after that than it is to come straight into the country.