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von

We can't know what you're wife would be entitled to unless you tell us her Nationality and Immigration status.

grendizer

von wrote: »

We can't know what you're wife would be entitled to unless you tell us her Nationality and Immigration status.

She just granted her ILR. originally from overeas

marybelle01

Indefinite leave to remain enables your wife to freely take up employment in the United Kingdom. As I suggested on your other thread, simply because she is caring for a child does not mean she cannot work, and if you are at home, then you can care for the child while she works, or you can both take part-time work and share the childcare. There are far more options here than simply claiming benefits - which, whatever your entitlement, will not provide a stable or robust financial footing for a family. You should consider the broader picture.

SnooksNJ

grendizer wrote: »

Dear princessdon,

Many thanks for your kind reply.

You mentioned 6 months!! what is the relevance?
Referring to your questions:
I am a housing tenant
My wife cant work as she is in a spouse visa and she is not allowed to work until she has her nationality

Not true, your wife can work on a spouse visa.

SnooksNJ

grendizer wrote: »

Many thanks to you all for your kind reply

I am not sure how correct the following is:
A friend of mine told me an hour ago that he had same situation last year and his wife as a resident came on a spouse visa like my wife she claimed on her name and they granted her many types of different benefits??

How accurate is that and what type of benefits she is entitle to??

I hope claiming benefits is worth not getting ILR.

grendizer

SnooksNJ wrote: »

Not true, your wife can work on a spouse visa.

I am afraid you are mistaken. When she granted her visa the embassy endorsed her passport that she cant work until granting full residency. Everyone I know married from non EU has the same endorsement.

gettingready

Sorry but you say you have worked here for 10 years but your "style" of writing and responding to posts as well as general lack of knowledge on quite a few issues suggests to me that you are quite a new arrival to UK yourself.

Or is this the said wife posting?

It reads like those emails from "Nigerian Prince who needs access to his money and needs you to help him out for a fee"...

marybelle01

grendizer wrote: »

I am afraid you are mistaken. When she granted her visa the embassy endorsed her passport that she cant work until granting full residency. Everyone I know married from non EU has the same endorsement.

I am quite confused by your posts. The whole point of indefinite leave to remain is that this grants the holder the unrestricted right to reside and work in the UK, and to travel into and out of the UK without restriction. So she has every right to work NOW, no matter what her original visa may have said. So what does it matter what the case was in the past. You are both capable of, and available for, work; and as I have suggested to you already, this would be a far better option than depending on benefits.

I am also quite confused by the statement that the embassy endorsed her passport as saying that she had no right to work in the UK. You may know of no cases of the right to work being given to somebody from a non-EU country. In fact I know of none where it isn't! The immigration rules for spouses of UK citizens, male or female, are actually that they must have adequate housing and must not rely on public funds of any kind for their support - in other words their spouse or wider family must support them, or they must support themselves. It would then be perverse to tell people that they cannot work either! Unless, of course, you are also not a UK citizen, in which case the rules may be different.

Which makes it all the more incredible that, given that you knew that you had a wife and child to support, you voluntarily gave up your job with none to go to. But that said, you have done so, and if you do not wish to spend many years unemployed and claiming benefits, you need to look at alternatives to whatever employment strategies you have so far adopted. That may mean lowering your expectations, looking at different types of roles and fields of work, both you and your wife working, or, if your wife can obtain full-time employment, switching roles and you becoming the primary carer for your child.

FBaby

Can my wife claim in her name for the family!!

Whether you claim or she claims makes no difference. Either way one is claiming on behalf of both, so the benefits would be the same.

You might want to inquire further about her ability to work. Does she speaks the language, have skills/education etc... so she could take up some employment if she was entitled to do so?

Would you be prepared to move out of the area? It sounds like you have a decent CV so don't give up hope, keep looking for jobs availability daily, insure that your applications are tailored to the job applied to and detailed. If you are failing even to get interviews, you might want to do a bit of homework about how to best fill in applications and doing covering letters. There are 100s of website providing advice and examples.

ILW

I get the impression that OP and his wife are not exactly the "hardworking immigrants" we keep getting told about. The pair just seem to be looking to sponge off the benefits system.