The Guardian article on Supreme Court ruling for spouses of UK citizens: our advice to the 1st couple featured there: moving together from Brazil but British husband can’t find a job in the UK beforehand.

Following last week’s decision by Supreme Court to back the income requirement of £18,600 for a Spouse / Partner /Fiancée visa, The Guardian followed up with 2 examples of how 2 couples were affected: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/22/supreme-court-spouse-rule-in-one-word-we-are-devastated

Here is our general advice to them. It may not be exactly the magic solution but it would allow them to achieve their goal.

From the immigration law professional point of view, our advice to the 1st couple (Brazilian / British) is for the British husband to come to the UK on his own, find employment paying min £18,600 per year, work for 6 months and then sponsor Monica for a Spouse visa (Monica could come as a visitor during those 6 months before returning to Brazil to apply for a "proper" Spouse visa). This can be any job, or can be more than one job if the salary from the 1st job isn't high enough. Once Monica has her Spouse visa, Martin could quit that job (if he wishes so), Monica could come to the UK and work in her field of IT, probably earning well over £18,600 pa. Spouse visa allows to work in the UK. At the next visa stage - extension after 2.5 years - Monica could use her  UK employment income to meet the £18,600 requirement.  

For an individual advice or to make your application as successful please contact us: info@1st4immigration.com or visit http://www.1st4immigration.com.

 
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 www.1st4immigration.com/training. We have a OISC Level 1 course as well as a Points-Based System course and we also have online training courses, including Online OISC Level 1 course and courses focusing on Spouse/Partner visas. All our training courses are CPD-accredited with CPD credit accepted by OISC.
 

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