Spouse Visa

[AzimScot]

Once you have a 2 year spouse visa can the spouse work during the first 2 years? Will he/she be able to get a national insurance card?

[Frontier Mole]

Yip, they can work their little socks off.
They will need the NI Number as you say, they will have to wait to they get into the UK before they can apply. It takes anything from a couple of weeks to a month+ to get the NINO depending on which part of the country you are in.

[ela27]

Sorry to butt in on this one but i was thinking the same thing about the NI card, but also what about national health, doctors and hospital etc? My husband suffers from malaria and it has a habit of coming back, esp. when imune system is down and stress (i.e. travel to UK and cold weather) - is this sorted out here?

[jude]

Of course Yes , he does not need NI to see Doctor but he need one , if he start look for job let him call the NI departement and book appiontment for NI card , As for malaria I could not understand why he did not treat himself befor coming to the uk , but he need to see a doctor as soon as possible girl . It is much better back home than here , but see a doctor soon.

[ela27]

Sorry - maybe I confused things - I know the NI card is for work. But I was thinking how he would get onto the national health? He is not here yet, and he does not have malaria at the moment. But with malaria it can reoccur and tends to come back when immunity is low - i.e. stress, or perhaps the climate change from Kenya to UK. So I was thinking ahead incase this happens, and incase he gets a bout of it on arrival in the UK, and would like to know how we register him with the NHS (if that is the case)?

Thanks

[mteja]

Ela27 as soon as your hubby gets in UK he can register in any gp. as per the NI, on ce he gets to UK he could ring job centre plus and make an appointment for NI..about malaria..surely he could treat himself in kenya before he comes to UK. And per re occuring of malaria...UK is not a malaria zone...i mean very few cases of malaria. actually when we kenyans get to UK we hardly suffer malaria, but when going back to Kenya we get treatment/malaria jabs before travelling. i hope this information helps