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rmor
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Help/advice please

Post by rmor » Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:41 pm

I am a British citizen and my boyfriend is Brazilian. I met my boyfriend in Ireland a few months ago where he is currently studying English. Since then we have been making our relationship work seeing eachother every other week as I work full time at home in England. At the end of the year his course will finish and he will have to return to Brazil as no longer a student. We have discussed our situation a few times already because it is a worry what will happen. We love each other a lot, both in our early thirties and very serious about staying together to have a future and one day a family. I would prefer us to be able to do this in the UK because this is my home. I need some advice on what our options are with regards to Visas. We are fully prepared to become married to stay/live together because we will at some point anyway however I feel like this is a catch 22 situation because at the time of our application we will still have only been together less than a year which won’t look favourable but unfortunately we don’t have the luxury of being able to live together beforehand because I don’t think the other visas besides fiancée/spouse are open to us. I have heard it is very difficult to find jobs willing providing a work visa for him to live here for a while. Also, I’m confused about how the family visas work. Would it be better to apply for a fiancé visa and marry in the UK or marry in his country and then apply for a spousal visa? Does it make any difference when it comes to the spousal visa where you get married?

I would just like to have a plan in mind! Thank you in advance

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Re: Help/advice please

Post by seagul » Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:44 pm

Usually for intitial application other than unmarried partner the proof of cohabitation is not required. Fiancee visa will be costly because you will have to apply again the costly spouse visa afterwards which You can straight apply for him after marrying legally in any country under their legal system. For spouse visa you must have been earning £18600 per year/having saving of £62500, unovercrowded accomodation, partner's English test etc.
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