CHILD BENEFIT QUERY

[aman505]

Hi

Can somebody please help. I am going around in circle and I can't see to get a definite answer.

Basically my wife is here on spouse visa and we are due to apply for her second period of extension (FLRM) end of this month. Our daughter was born last year and we have claimed for child benefit since then. I am a british citizen and I thought we are entitled to child benefit even though my wife has no recourse to public funds. When we applied for child benefit we did tick the box to say my wife is under immigration control and I am a british citizen. The lady who checked our documents when we went for our birth registration didn't say anything about my wife's immigration status when she checked our child benefit documents. I have been browsing but I can't find a definitive answer that whether she is in breach of no recourse to public funds provision. I have found gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488202/Public_funds_v12.0EXT_clean.pdf On page 17 it does state that if the partner is a british citizen then the person subject to immigration control isn't considered as accessing public funds. Has anyone been into this situation before? Please help so I can inform HMRC ASAP if she isn't entitled.

[ohara]

Why are you posting this multiple times? The question has already been answered in your other thread.

http://www.immigrationboards.com/immigr ... 07026.html