removal - re-entry with spouse visa civil partnership

I am a brazilian who got removed from the UK in december last year for out staying my welcome on my visa by 4 months. I was devastated cos i was seeing my partner who is a british citizen. We have done everything to stay together and i have been living and working in Italy and he comes out every week for a 3 to 4 days to stay with me, and eventhough we thought he could commute between the uk and italy its proving to be too stressfull and we arent very happy. |We decided to go out to south africa to do civil partnership as my partner is originally from there and we did this at the british consulate last week in pretoria.

We think we are doing eveything correctly and have all the paperwork, but could someone just adivse what we need to do to ensure that the spouse visa will be approved. We just dont have enough funds together, what with my partners commuting, to hire a lawyer. As much advise will be greatly appreciated.

Kleber De Souza

We just dont have enough funds together

Why do you say that? Can you be more specific? How much funds do you think you need?

Has your Civil Partner got a job? If so how much is earned from that job?

Do realise that it is just a question of proving that it will not be necessary for you to claim certain Public Funds. Which is nothing like proving you are millionaires, or anything like it.

Also appreciate that you will be applying for a Civil Partners visa. In the title of this topic you have also included the word "spouse" but that is not technically correct. In the UK a spouse remains someone who is in a marriage, that is, an opposite-sex relationship.

Nevertheless, congratulations on registering the Civil Partnership.

John wrote:

We just dont have enough funds together

Why do you say that? Can you be more specific? How much funds do you think you need?

Has your Civil Partner got a job? If so how much is earned from that job?

Do realise that it is just a question of proving that it will not be necessary for you to claim certain Public Funds. Which is nothing like proving you are millionaires, or anything like it.

Also appreciate that you will be applying for a Civil Partners visa. In the title of this topic you have also included the word "spouse" but that is not technically correct. In the UK a spouse remains someone who is in a marriage, that is, an opposite-sex relationship.

Nevertheless, congratulations on registering the Civil Partnership.

Thank you for your response. Yes my partner does work - he has worked for British Airways for 8 and a half years- his pay including flight payments - (he is cabin crew) his last P60 was 25000 per year. what i meant with funds, was that with all the money we have spent on flights - despite that he gets them cheap, we dont have enough money to hire a lawyer to do all our stuff for us. so we are doing it all on our own with the assistance of web sites like this one.

We have got letters from friends, including one from his mother who i know and was at our ceremony in south africa, we have his payslips, bank statements, a letter from his land lord stating that we will be living in his house. photographs - many! etc. I just want to know of any other ideas or things maybe we havent thought of. do you think we stand a good chance

Kleber