Finally, after a long, long struggle my wife got the CEFR Level 1 in Cambridge English KEY exam. However, she couldn't get the pass marks, therefore they wouldn't issue the certificate. No problem, as UKBA don't require any documents but, there is another problem. For tests taken on or after 6 April...

abdulraheem123 wrote: did you pay yourself a regular monthly salary? and how will your accountant be showing your payslips? as one lump sum or monthly payslips?

Yes, I do.
Monthly payslip for salary which is based on minimum wage rate.
Payslip for one lump-sum dividends for whole year...not monthly.

Are you saying your accountant will fiddle the books? Rocky road my friend, rocky road, UKVI will query HMRC records in cases like these. No, no way, cant even think about that ...and why would I do that while I am running a legitimate business :D ....I think I fail to describe my situation properl...

Hi, I have a question..,your help will be highly appreciated. :) If I issue dividends as one off lump-sum for past 12 months to my self as company director would that be OKAY? I pay monthly salary to myself as company employee but I never issued any dividends voucher during past 12 months....so I am...

Hi. first I am sorry for asking this very basic question. I am British Citizen and want to bring my wife and children to UK to live with me, can someone please advise me whether she need B1 or A1 english language level certificate. I know that few years ago it was A1, but looking for information on ...

As I understand all cases regardless of tribunal judge rule in your favour or against are ON HOLD, until the Home Office appeal against financial requirement case in court decided.

No, we couldn't, and it was extremely frustrated situation :x ....our MP did help us to write letter to HO...then HO office inform us that your case is ON HOLD. Our lawyer said it is wrong for Home Office to hold our case even though tribunal passed a judgment....but nowadays HO do whatever they wan...

Same situation with my niece. Tribunal inform us the judge rule in your favour, which mean we won the case. We got excited and happy. We also being told that they have 10 days if they wish to appeal...ten days passed...so waited for all documents to be proceed from tribunal to HO and then embassy......

First of all Congratulation Jomags1. you must be delighted.

I must say you are extremely lucky, perhaps that is the reason why British immigration rules is bunch of clustered confused texts.

The short fall is around £100 per month, but you have £5000 in saving, and according to this court judgment, it is more than enough to meet the shortfall in your income.

Go ahead, you shouldn't have any problem to get visa in 4 weeks.

You can't take the child tax credit into account when calculating income. You will need to show that when rent or mortgage, council tax and any loan/credit repayments have been paid you will have a minimum weekly amount remaining of £105.95 as a couple and £62.33 for each child. Sorry, but now I ...

pompeyboy its not that complicated...simply deduct 62.33 x 4 + 105.95 from your weekly wage, remaining must be 355.27 GBP. Thats it.

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I can confirm now that after paying CT and rent/mortgage you need 353-359 pound per week in hand to be able to support 4 children and wife.

according to 2 immigration advisers it is 359, and one of them say its between 350-380 per week, and another one say it is 353.

mosesmoses wrote:

hi i am in a similar postion to you- can i have the breakdown of her marks? thanks.

overall 3.0 band mark (listening 2.0 reading 3.0 writing 4.0 speaking 3.0). 

I think you need to achieve 4 in listening and speaking.

t address but did not get a reply. This is an email i recieved recently:   Now I feel the same as the topic starter, feels like I wasted my wifes time making her do ielts. Currently Im looking into PTE for her to do, anyone know anything about this one? Difficulty/procedure/duration/time it takes ...

Yes, totally agreed. Its really hard to take, in hong kong total cost of visa fees is £3340 for five persons. For me its not about money, but the fact that I am apart from family for months, and these all months every second of it feel like hell. And more painful is that its still it not clear that...

Same situation with me. I am also in process to move my family wife and four children from hong kong to UK. I was very confused about this matter, and now I am extremely disappointed, because someone have advise me that the ECO include CTC in net income. But Casa and Vinny provided compeling evidenc...

Cant say about my wife confidence, but she try her best. yes PTE Academic is available any time of the year in most countries. But I suggest check with your intended test center.

My wife took PEARSON ACADEMIC, test on 21 July 2011 in Hong Kong. UKBA pass marks requirement is 24 speaking listening, writing, and reading. Unfortunetly she got 27 in speaking and 22 in listening. :cry: :cry: Result available within just one day. This english test is extremely difficult for non-a...

My wife took PEARSON ACADEMIC, test on 21 July 2011 in Hong Kong. UKBA pass marks requirement is 24 speaking listening, writing, and reading. Unfortunetly she got 27 in speaking and 22 in listening. :cry: :cry: Result available within just one day. This english test is extremely difficult for non-ac...

Exquisit33, phonecards? no way, maybe just maybe u can get away with that but it is nowhere near considered as a 'solid' proof of contact. With these ECO's what you need is a solid proof. Skype call logs, mobile call logs, landline call logs <<<<<< these are considered solid proof. Top up vouchers ...

There is an interesting section on the Family Settlement Consultation document regarding how they currently calculate whether the family have sufficient maintenance. 5. Compare the sponsor‟s net income after deduction of housing costs with the equivalent Income Support rate Example calculation Sp...

My inquiry: Hi, My wife had taken PEARSON PTE General LEVEL 1A English Test, and the result will be issued online on 25 July. My wife register for test with full advance payment for this test before 18the April 2011 deadline, and she took test on 14 and 21 May. Above test removed from the new list o...

I want to bring and settle my family in the UK from Hong Kong. It is in the planning and document preparing stage, which take almost nine month and still counting. It is very hard time for me. Last night got this news of UKBA plan on this forum. Its scared me first, I was panicked. But then in a way...