Hello, My husband receives PIP and we are planning to apply for a spouse visa under the adequate maintenance route. I was wondering if anyone could help me undertand how the home office will determine the benefits we would get as a married couple with no children? I know the formula they use is for ...

Hi, Are you here in UK on a visit visa? As you mentioned that you don't have a legal right to work? If you are on a visit visa then you will have to let ESA know you won't be living with the ESA claimant permanently (let ESA know the date you moved in, date you married, date you will be leaving UK....

Have you applied? If you've had the savings for at least 6 months before you apply, then you should be able to meet the requirement

Just divide those 6 month savings by 144 weeks to get a weekly amount.

Thank you for your reply! They said they would have to reasses his situation since he was now married (Monday), and the payments suddenly stopped (wednesday). When he phoned in to ask if he would get his biweekly pay since nothing had been deposited by then (Friday), they just said they would phone ...

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew for how long you have to be claiming ESA for it to count as income? (For the adequate maintenance requirement of spouse visas).

Hello, My husband was in receipt of ESA, which we were counting on to meet the adequate maintenance requirement. When he phoned the ESA offices to ask for a letter confirming his entitlement, he mentioned he was married now, and they have now stopped his payments. Will he lose his ESA even if I (wif...

Hello, My husband and I are getting ready to apply for a spouse visa (for me), we have an appointment coming up soon at the visa application centre. He's a British citizen and I am from Mexico. Upon looking at all our documents, we have just noticed an error on our marriage certificate: it has my ag...