Claiming Child Benefit with Wife on Spouse Visa

Hi,

Can someone please confirm If I can claim Child Benefit while my wife is on spouse visa and will be applying for her visa extension in few months ?

I'm a British citizen including my newborn baby but not sure if we can claim child benefit while my wife is on spouse visa.

Will claiming child benefit negatively affect the extension spouse visa application for my wife ?

Some people have said I can claim it without any negative affects for the extension visa application some say not to claim it. Please can someone confirm this with expert advise ?

Thanks

As a British citizen, you can claim for your British citizen child.

Child Benefit can only be claimed in one persons name and that must be your name because your wife is No Recourse to Public Funds. Until she has been granted ILR, any Child Benefit claim will have to remain in your name, which will mean she can't have any NI Credits towards a UK State Pension (unless she works and pays her NI Contributions towards a UK state pension).

Her name must be linked on your Child Benefit claim because there is an earnings cap for CB and HMRC check her earnings too to look for benefit fraud. As long as the actual CB claim is in your name, it won't affect her visa.

You can ask for a backdate to the date your child was born (up to 3 months ago).

The above answer is the information I was looking for as well.

Can I transfer NI credits from claiming child benefit to my wife who is on a FLR with no recourse to public funds or would this be seen as her claiming a benefit?

Thank you.

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