simononwaytoUK wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 7:56 am
What if she gets a 2 year visitor visa. We could all be in the UK while I work. After 6 months of wage slips and some savings (hopefully), we can leave the country and apply for the spouse visa.
Unlikely she will be issued a visit visa. For a visit visa, she will need to prove that she has stronger ties to her country of habitual residence than she has to the UK. With a spouse and children in the UK, that would be hard to pull off. Indeed, having family in the UK actually weakens applications for visit visas in the UK.
And she is even less likely to get a 2 year visit visa. Normally, one builds up to a multiple year visit visa only after a history of 6 month visit visas, where one has demonstrated that they have followed the rules. Think of it as building up a credit score.
And even with a two year visit visa, keep in mind that each visit should not exceed six months and that the person should be spending more time in their country of habitual residence than in the UK. Residing in the UK in the guise of a visit visa by "frequent or successive visits" is expressly forbidden in the Immigration Rules for visitors.
On an unrelated side-note, be aware that if you want your eldest child (aged 12 years old) to go to university in the UK, you'd want them to move soon anyway. In order to qualify for Home Student fees and student financing in England, the applicant (including British citizens) must be "ordinarily resident" in the UK for at least three years before the first day of the first year of the higher education course.
I am not a lawyer or immigration advisor. My statements/comments do not constitute legal advice. E&OE. Please do not PM me for advice.
