nemo, Congratulations to you and spouse for winning the appeal. I presume that the Home Office (on behalf of the ECO) will not have appealed against the decision. You should get in touch with the British Embassy in Sri Lanka (not the local partner) and send them a copy of the determination. They ...

Best to ask a lawyer surely? I do remember on another forum a discussion regarding "child benefit". It did seem that if a foriegn spouse received this then that was counted as recourse to public funds! Rather harsh I think considering the benefit is really for the child (which would be British) I do ...

Best to ask a lawyer surely? I do remember on another forum a discussion regarding "child benefit". It did seem that if a foriegn spouse received this then that was counted as recourse to public funds! Rather harsh I think considering the benefit is really for the child (which would be British) I do ...

Best to ask a lawyer surely? I do remember on another forum a discussion regarding "child benefit". It did seem that if a foriegn spouse received this then that was counted as recourse to public funds! Rather harsh I think considering the benefit is really for the child (which would be British) I do ...

Best to ask a lawyer surely? I do remember on another forum a discussion regarding "child benefit". It did seem that if a foriegn spouse received this then that was counted as recourse to public funds! Rather harsh I think considering the benefit is really for the child (which would be British) I do ...

Good! Its often hard to explain to people who look stary eyed at the "big UK" salaries that Her Majesties Government so happily takes a big cut! Many Asian countries have no or little taxes (and tax evasion is easy). What is also needed is cost of living guides. I am fed up of explaining to ...

Its easy to say "not graduate level". Sounds like "plausible" excuse to just refuse entry to Pakistanis on basis that they are Muslims blah blah. Or its just the pig ignorant staff at imi cant read. In my own case of applying for a spouse visa for the wife both factors came into it I think (Muslim ...

"ordinarily resident" (OR) I presume relates to the tax definition. In this case after leaving the UK for 8 months (more than 6 months ago) within the last 3 years she would still count as OR. And is currently "resident" for tax purposes There are three terms used for tax purposes - domiciled ...

Hi, well.... Once upon a time (Nov 95) applied for a spouse visa for my wife (just married) so that we could return to the UK. I am a British citizen she is not. I was working abroad (3 years) but wished to return to UK. Didn't expect it to be difficult but after applying realised I had to be in the ...