CAN WE GET ANY FINANTIAL HELP (HOUSING TUTIONS)

[jango]

My husband and I are both fulltime university students, in london. We have a 2 year old son. We got married in London 2004. My husband was a student at that time, later when his student visa got expired, he went back to his come contry, and he got a one year entery clearance visa, and after that we applied to homeoffice, and he got spouse visa, until my education is finished in june 2008. I am a EU citizen, but I have residence permit here.

Now the question is. can my husband get help to pay his tution fee??
Can we get help from Housing Benifit, (full rent) or any finantial help, at all???

is it true that we can not recieve any help until he gets perminent status to leave and remain UK, or will his delay his process to get perminent status.

kind regards hedyeh.

[Wanderer]

My husband and I are both fulltime university students, in london. We have a 2 year old son. We got married in London 2004. My husband was a student at that time, later when his student visa got expired, he went back to his come contry, and he got a one year entery clearance visa, and after that we applied to homeoffice, and he got spouse visa, until my education is finished in june 2008. I am a EU citizen, but I have residence permit here.

Now the question is. can my husband get help to pay his tution fee??
Can we get help from Housing Benifit, (full rent) or any finantial help, at all???

is it true that we can not recieve any help until he gets perminent status to leave and remain UK, or will his delay his process to get perminent status.

kind regards hedyeh.

I think as an EU Citizen YOU have the right to claim Housing benefit etc, but wrt to tuition fees I'm sure not.

The only way out that I can see is that an EU cit. with a spouse AIUI you are both not limited to the 20hrs a week for working. Not easy while studying tho I know...

[John]

Jango, how long have you lived in the UK exercising EU Treaty Rights, such as by studying? And which country are you from? Do you have a UK-issued Permanent Residence sticker in your passport?

Your husband's visa/permit, can you be more specific about it? Without disclosing his name printed on it, what does it actually say? I am just trying to work out exactly what type of visa or permit he has.

Can I presume that you are claiming Child Benefit, and you and your husband are jointly claiming Tax Credits?

[jango]

thanks for your reply john
I am a Danish Citizen. and I applied for UK-issued Residence permit from the Home Office ( filed out the EE1 application form). I recieved a blue residence card with my picture in it, first time the Home Office issued me the blue residence card, it was valid for only 6 months. Allthough my course was a fulltime course and the duration was 3 years. However I applied for residence permit again and they gave me a new blue residence card which was valid from the date the previous got expired and to, they didnot put in any dates, I think its because its permenant residence card I got the second time when I filled out the EE1 form. I was informed to fill this form from the employees at the Home Office.
( they call this blue residence card a registration Certificate, in the letters I recieved from the Home Office).
I also want to tell you that I have been on income-support for a very short time when I was living here alone with my little son. When my Husband came from his home contry and was issued a entry clearance visa EEA Family Permit to join Spouse, us. I informed them about the changes in my circumstances and my income-support stopped few days before he came. And after a while I started Uni, and applied for residence permit, as mentioned above.

After recieving the 2nd recidence card I fill out a EE2 application form for my huband, because his Entry Clearance was soon to be expired.

The HOME OFFICE, gave him DJE 761 48 Visa in his passport it is written that . A right of recidence in the United Kingdom as a family member of
an EEA national and then my name,who is resident i United kingdom in exersice of treaty is herby given until 30 june 2008.

My course began in sep 2005 ends in jun 2008.

In my blue residence card the valid date is written however the due date is not, as it was in the first one , allthough they both were identical.

Regarding Child Benifit and Child Tax Credit, the answer is No its is not a joint claime.

Beause he is not the farther of my son, and I recieve Child Benifit and Child Tax Credit to pay for a part of my sons expensives. it is only in my name.

The athourities, could not find my sons father, and they closed down out case in the court, and it is statet that my sons father is unknown.

In Danmark, children whoms farther is dead or unknown recieve some money from the goverment, this is the money the father normaly is suppose to pay for their child/children.

But I live here and I am therfore not entitled to this help, and I am not aware of this kind of help in UK. are you??

kind regards hedyeh

[John]

Regarding Child Benifit and Child Tax Credit, the answer is No its is not a joint claime.

That is not totally correct. Whilst the Child Benefit, a type of benefit claimed by just one person, is correctly in your sole name, as regards Tax Credits in respect of a couple living together a claim must be in joint names. So if the Tax Credits are indeed being claimed just be you, you need to get that changed now!

The two of you claiming Tax Credits jointly causes no immigration to you, or more importantly, to your husband (in view of "small print" in the Tax Credits legislation, reg 3(2) Tax Credits (Regulations) 2003, as reinforced by para 6B of the Immigration Rules).

It makes no difference at all that your husband is not the biological father of your child. You and your husband live together ..... therefore Tax Credits must be claimed jointly.

So back to your original questions :-

Now the question is. can my husband get help to pay his tution fee??

Regretfully no.

Can we get help from Housing Benifit, (full rent) or any finantial help, at all???

Housing Benefit is claimed by just one person, although the family income needs to be disclosed. You are entitled to claim. Para 6A of the Immigration Rules prevents you getting more Housing Benefit because your husband is living there, compared to if he wasn't. However, in your circumstances this is not a problem ..... because the income disregard for a "single parent with a child" is the same as for a "couple with a child". Accordingly it cannot be the case that you can get more Housing Benefit because your husband is living there. Indeed you might get less, because your husband's income needs to be taken into account in assessing the amount of your Housing Benefit.

I would also make the same point about Council Tax Benefit, but I guess you are both, correctly, registered as full-time students, and thus are not "counting adults" for Council Tax. So if the two of you are the only adults living in your place, there is no Council Tax to pay.

Other financial help? If your family income is low .... free NHS prescriptions ... free NHS dentistry. Have you applied for such exemptions?

[jango]

why is it so important that I add my husbands regarding the child tax credit? Does it have any benifits for him ,or us??

If we are entitled to claim for housing beneifit, and decides to recieve this help can it then effect my husbands immigration status, as regarding to will housing beneifit be condiserated a public fund?? Because when we filed out the application form EEA2 for my husband, in order to recieve right to live in UK, It was mentioned in the application form that we should not be on any public funds, and also child benifit and child tax credit will this be considered as a public fund ???

We will need to apply for my husband and get his residency status renewed in june 2008,

If we get housing, child benifit, child tax credit, will the home office then not extend his residency status? Or will it delay the progress of this claim, and make it take longer time to get perminant status to leave and remain
UK.???????

More importantly my husband was convited in court for a criminal offence, however it was not a very serious CRIME, but it is a criminal offence anyway, and he had to do community service for 60 hours,
and also pay around 50 pound to courts expensives.
I was told that this offence will be on his record for about 5 years.

All this had happend after we applied for EEA2, residency permit to live in UK , and we were waiting for the Home Office to reply.

First time we applied for this EEA2 for my husband in the application form they asked if he had any criminal offences, and now he has, it on the record for 5 years , will this effect his recidency status, can the Home Office decide not to give him visa, ???In order to live with us here in UK??
What can I do???

Regarding my husbands tution fee , why is the answer NO, and when will he then be entitled to recieve help for his tution fee or grant , (education). ???

thank you before hand for replying.

kind regard hedi

[John]

why is it so important that I add my husbands regarding the child tax credit?

Because that is the law .... in respect of a couple ... married or unmarried .... living together .... any Tax Credits claim must be made jointly.

Criminal conviction ..... can you say what he was convicted of?

Tuition Fees .... Home Fees rather than Overseas Fees .... in respect of a course already started he will always be on Overseas Fees ... irrespective of a change of circumstances.

If we get housing, child benifit, child tax credit, will the home office then not extend his residency status?

Please re-read what has already posted. Not sure I can add anything.