Hi Im in the position where I will be applying for ILR at the start of the New Year. I have found the information within this post v helpful. Thank you! However, I need some help.. Some background, I am the applicant and my wife is a British Citizen. In the past, my wife received WTC, we do not ...

Hello Apologies if some of this has already been covered in other posts but I really would appreciate some advice/clarification about my situation. I need some advice re WTC. I will be applying for my settlement visa in November and I am very concerned about the "recourse to public funds" element ...

That is great stuff John im happy for you, well done!

Gives me and the Mrs hope.

That's useful to know as we were wondering how on earth are we going to get 20+ documents in our joint names?! Already got our "evidence folder" ready with a few documents and just adding to it as and when we receive stuff. Feel like i am back at Uni preparing for a major study! Im sure things will ...

That really is great news! We wont be applying for my ILR until 2010 but, we just want to make sure that we are as prepared and as organised as possible so thats its not all one mad rush come the time. We would also appreciate any advice re documents we need to collate. At the moment, we have things ...

John,

Thanks for the information, feel relieved now!

Any advice re: pregnancy matter?

Thanks

Hi Thanks for your advice. Its the WTC that im also concerned about, as we are both in receipt of it. As ive mentioned Mrs is British but I am not. At the time of application my wife was 37 weeks pregnant so under "dependents" we filled in "o". I will have to look back on the settlement visa ...

Thank you both for your replies. Yes, my wife is a British citizen. Thanks for the link will check it out.. Is is a problematic that we did not mention the pregnancy when applying for my settlement visa? There is no sinister reason why we didnt reveal this news we just thouht it would be easier to ...

Hello I am a Bangladeshi citizen. I came to the UK in Feb this year on a spouse visa. This visa is based on "no recourse to public funds". I hope to apply for ILR in 2010. We are receiving Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits (I work 54 hours per week) and Child Benefit. Our son is 7 months old ...