Fiancee Visa Financial requirement dependent child

[resting123]

Please can somebody help to advise regarding the visa for my fiancee to join me here in the UK.

My fiancee has no children, but I have a 16 year old son who lives here in the UK with his mother. I pay child maintenance for him and see him a few times a week. I've just been reading through VAF4A appendix 2 and i'm not sure how much money I have to earn to satisfy the financial requirement to sponsor my fiancee given my situation.

I thought it was £18600 but am not sure if my 16 year old son changes this, can somebody please advise.

Thanks

[CR001]

£18600pa. You are only sponsoring your fiance.

Presumably your son is British.

[resting123]

Thank you, yes he is indeed british.

In the VAF4A appendix 2 form it asks for details about him and the amount of maintenance paid for him which was where the confusion arose from.

[resting123]

I'm stumped with the figure that my employer should write for my earnings can somebody advise me please.

I get hourly paid, so no annual salary. From my understanding i need to provide the last 6 months worth of payslips and they will work out my annual salary from this. My contracted hours workout to approximately 36 per week as I work a 5 on 3 off shift pattern, but I also work extra hours through covering staff holidays etc so rarely ever do less than 40 hours per week, sometimes nearly 60 as the need arises ( I have done 48 this week for example).

What is the figure that my employer should write on the letter or is it enough to provide my bank statements and wage slips for the HO case worker to see for themselves?

Thanks again

[seagul]

I'm stumped with the figure that my employer should write for my earnings can somebody advise me please.

I get hourly paid, so no annual salary. From my understanding i need to provide the last 6 months worth of payslips and they will work out my annual salary from this. My contracted hours workout to approximately 36 per week as I work a 5 on 3 off shift pattern, but I also work extra hours through covering staff holidays etc so rarely ever do less than 40 hours per week, sometimes nearly 60 as the need arises ( I have done 48 this week for example).

What is the figure that my employer should write on the letter or is it enough to provide my bank statements and wage slips for the HO case worker to see for themselves?

Thanks again

Your employer can give the total of your last 6 months wages and if possible then can give the average yearly income by taking the average of last 6 months wages. And it should provide the following information:

(b) A letter from the employer(s) who issued the payslips at paragraph 2(a) confirming: (i) the person's employment and gross annual salary; (ii) the length of their employment; (iii) the period over which they have been or were paid the level of salary relied upon in the application; and (iv) the type of employment (permanent, fixed-term contract or agency).

[resting123]

Thats great, thank you.

Is it ok for my manager write the letter? I work for a very large company where HR would be a nightmare to deal with over this?

[seagul]

Thats great, thank you.

Is it ok for my manager write the letter? I work for a very large company where HR would be a nightmare to deal with over this?

Yes a manager can write but make sure he attends the HO call and confirm it.

[resting123]

Thats great thank you.

If the fiancee visa application is rejected and the visa not granted do the HO issue a refund for the visa fee so that we can correct whatever was wrong and reapply?

[CR001]

Thats great thank you.

If the fiancee visa application is rejected and the visa not granted do the HO issue a refund for the visa fee so that we can correct whatever was wrong and reapply?

No, the visa fee is not refunded. If you reapply, you have to pay again.

[resting123]

Thank you.

I'm worried because after we got engaged in June '18 we had an argument in august and both of us stupidly and (hotheadly) deleted whatsapp and when we reinstated it (24 hours later) all of our previous contact to that point was lost.

Would this cause problems with the application do you think?