Living apart, spouse visa?
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When you apply for your next visa, Further Leave To Remain(M), you're asked if you've lived with your spouse since arriving on your first visa. If you haven't lived with him for the entire time, you're asked to explain why. You must answer these questions truthfully. I wouldn't think that 'he didn't want to live with his parents but he wanted me to', or 'he didn't think it was fair that he would have to pay another deposit on a rental property' would be viewed very positively by the person assessing your application.
I think you need to be very careful. Your husband is supposed to be financially sponsoring you to live in the UK, yet he's not even prepared to pay a deposit on a rental property so you can live together?
Something's not right..
I think you need to be very careful. Your husband is supposed to be financially sponsoring you to live in the UK, yet he's not even prepared to pay a deposit on a rental property so you can live together?
Something's not right..
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Hi yeah first of all thanks for your answer and point of view. Yes completely I wouldn't lie in that interview and like you said it would look weird to them. Then well yeah he said he is going to help me with the 500 pounds of the nsh but he said he doesn't have enough money to rent a place and pay for the deposit which is fair enough but at least I would appreciate him leaving with me at his parents, I really wanted a advicer but like I said before he said it was like 150 pounds so that was not necessarily, and well the other this that his contract is temporary for 1 year so he ask me if I can take a bank statement proof in here of some money I have to apply with my savings but the amount was not enough.
And I am fairly certain that any advisor would say the same.
I have a friend who is currently renting a room in a lovely shared house, but he will shortly be sponsoring his fiance to join him in the UK. Because of that he is now looking at rental places so that he can get a flat where they can live together as a couple. THAT is what your man should be doing.
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Hi yeah first of all thanks for your answer and point of view. Yes completely I wouldn't lie in that interview and like you said it would look weird to them. Then well yeah he said he is going to help me with the 500 pounds of the nsh but he said he doesn't have enough money to rent a place and pay for the deposit which is fair enough but at least I would appreciate him leaving with me at his parents, I really wanted a advicer but like I said before he said it was like 150 pounds so that was not necessarily, and well the other this that his contract is temporary for 1 year so he ask me if I can take a bank statement proof in here of some money I have to apply with my savings but the amount was not enough.
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He sounds like a real catch
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Hi yes I completely understand your point of view same as them, I would love to have more support from his side not only financial. I have the feeling if I apply like this they are going to deny me the visa and Im going to lose like 2.000 pounds, at the moment I'm not working here an have some debts so that only makes it more difficult thankfully my mum is helping me with that, and well the other this that his contract is temporary for 1 year so he ask me if I can take a bank statement proof in here of some money I have to apply with my savings but the amount was not enough.
We don't know you, but to me your case is simply covered in red flags. For your own wellbeing I would strongly advise you to rethink your application. This is not a man who has YOUR best interest in his heart. A man who loves and cares for his wife is not one who will not give up his bachelor life so his wife can live with and take care of his mother. If you were my daughter I would do whatever I could to convince you that this is a potential disaster waiting to happen.
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Oh Dear! Could be a question on the Immigration Officers test Paper. "Applicant wants wife to join him in UK on a spouse visa. He meets the financial criteria but does not want her to stay with him but to live with his parents in the same town. would you approve the visa?"
I feel sorry for the OP , she is heading for disaster.....
Why would he sponsor her to get to UK - if he won't rent suitable accommodation for them, and she does not find work fairly quickly , will he support her financially or ask his parents to feed and clothe her. I feel there may be chunks of the story we are missing??
I feel sorry for the OP , she is heading for disaster.....
Why would he sponsor her to get to UK - if he won't rent suitable accommodation for them, and she does not find work fairly quickly , will he support her financially or ask his parents to feed and clothe her. I feel there may be chunks of the story we are missing??
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All I can do is echo the concerns expressed above. There is something terribly wrong with this relationship! Please reconsider spending all your money to come to a strange country where there is no guarantee of support from anyone who is supposed to be close to you.
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Hi yes I completely understand your point of view same as them, I would love to have more support from his side not only financial. I have the feeling if I apply like this they are going to deny me the visa and Im going to lose like 2.000 pounds, at the moment I'm not working here an have some debts so that only makes it more difficult thankfully my mum is helping me with that, and well the other this that his contract is temporary for 1 year so he ask me if I can take a bank statement proof in here of some money I have to apply with my savings but the amount was not enough.
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Hello everyone.
I have an important question... Me and my husband are hoping to apply for the spouse visa soon (he is from England and I'm from Latin America) currently he is renting a room in a shared house, he told me that maybe when I arrive there I can stay at his mums house but he cannot stay with me because the room only is a single bed. The other option he told me is that I stay at a hostel for some months until we find a place of our own. My question is can that be a big problem I mean he staying in one place and me in another. I send the question to and adviser but sadly I haven't had any reply. Thanks in advance.
I have an important question... Me and my husband are hoping to apply for the spouse visa soon (he is from England and I'm from Latin America) currently he is renting a room in a shared house, he told me that maybe when I arrive there I can stay at his mums house but he cannot stay with me because the room only is a single bed. The other option he told me is that I stay at a hostel for some months until we find a place of our own. My question is can that be a big problem I mean he staying in one place and me in another. I send the question to and adviser but sadly I haven't had any reply. Thanks in advance.
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Hello first thanks for the answer that's another thing maybe due to a will of my dad that passed away I do have a good amount of money at the bank but I do think its fair as well to take all my money here that is quite a lot here and take it to the UK where is not going to be as much, I don't pretend he pays for everything like I said I'm paying for the whole visa application, plane ticket, two trips to the next country for English test and apply for the visa. He is helping me with the nsh and the cost of the English test (because I ask him for the favor) I do the know
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Putting myself in the shoes of an immigration officer, reviewing the facts that will be submitted on the application - husband doesn't want to live with the wife, wife is paying for virtually everything to get herself to the UK, wife does not even seem particularly bothered that she will not be living with her husband........this has all the hallmarks of being a marriage arranged purely to get the wife to the Uk.
OP, Pre, please don't think that I am saying this is definitely the case, but this is the way it looks to outsiders. You have money, you are using that money to finance your way into the UK. I can't see any other way you would be getting a visa to live in the UK. It really does look as if you have got a man to marry you so that you can move there. That man is not changing his life for you at all, he is continuing to live with his mates and is not making you part of his life. I strongly suspect that unless your application is altered considerably it will be rejected as not being a genuine marriage.
OP, Pre, please don't think that I am saying this is definitely the case, but this is the way it looks to outsiders. You have money, you are using that money to finance your way into the UK. I can't see any other way you would be getting a visa to live in the UK. It really does look as if you have got a man to marry you so that you can move there. That man is not changing his life for you at all, he is continuing to live with his mates and is not making you part of his life. I strongly suspect that unless your application is altered considerably it will be rejected as not being a genuine marriage.
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Putting myself in the shoes of an immigration officer, reviewing the facts that will be submitted on the application - husband doesn't want to live with the wife, wife is paying for virtually everything to get herself to the UK, wife does not even seem particularly bothered that she will not be living with her husband........this has all the hallmarks of being a marriage arranged purely to get the wife to the Uk.
OP, Pre, please don't think that I am saying this is definitely the case, but this is the way it looks to outsiders. You have money, you are using that money to finance your way into the UK. I can't see any other way you would be getting a visa to live in the UK. It really does look as if you have got a man to marry you so that you can move there. That man is not changing his life for you at all, he is continuing to live with his mates and is not making you part of his life. I strongly suspect that unless your application is altered considerably it will be rejected as not being a genuine marriage.
OP, Pre, please don't think that I am saying this is definitely the case, but this is the way it looks to outsiders. You have money, you are using that money to finance your way into the UK. I can't see any other way you would be getting a visa to live in the UK. It really does look as if you have got a man to marry you so that you can move there. That man is not changing his life for you at all, he is continuing to live with his mates and is not making you part of his life. I strongly suspect that unless your application is altered considerably it will be rejected as not being a genuine marriage.
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Probably the immigration officer will want to understand that your relationship is still on -going... and you have not both drifted apart.