The United Kingdom spouse visa enables those individuals who are married to a British citizen and want to settle with them in the UK.
There are majorly 4 levels of requirements for a successful UK spouse visa.
You must fulfil age requirements, English language and financial requirements and lastly you must be able to provide evidence for a genuine relationship.
Let’s take a look at it one by one.
All levels of requirements
Financial requirements
To support your spouse or accomplice, you really wanted a yearly pay of essentially £18,600 or investment funds of £62,500.
If you have a reliant child who is certifiably not a British resident, the base pay is £22,400 and a further £2400 is added for the second child and afterward for every child from that point.
In case you are depending on pay, it needs to come from the endorsed sources, like work, independent work, rental of property, pay from profits or speculations, or annuity.
On the off chance that a non-British accomplice is outside the UK, their pay from work or independent work isn’t considered. In any case, their pay from property rental, benefits or speculations are perceived.
Your investment funds can belong to you or your British partner or both. They must be held in a money account with quick access. You should exhibit that you possessed the assets for no less than a half year, regardless of whether they were not in the money representing the whole half year time frame.
English Language requirements
For a successful UK Spouse visa application you must be able to pass A1 level of English proficiency test, as approved by CEFR.
Application cost and additional charges
The application expense relies upon whether the application is produced using abroad or from the UK.
For an application produced outside the UK, the visa expense is £1523, the Immigration Health Surcharge is £1872, and is £573 for priority service.
In case you are applying in the UK, the visa expense is £1033, the Immigration Health Surcharge is £1560, and super priority service, assuming you need a priority decision within 24 hours, is £800.
Road to ILR & British Citizenship
There are 2 routes for getting ILR with a spouse visa.
If you choose a 5 years route then you must fulfil all the aforementioned requirements in 5 years time for gaining ILR successfully.
If for any reason you are unable to fulfil any of the requirements, then your ILR will be granted as per 10 years residency route. You can also switch from a 10 years route to a 5 years route anytime you want.
Once you have an active ILR then within 1 years time you can apply for British Citizenship.
