help:dependant apply for 10 year ILR, spouse apply FLR(M)

[paultailor]

Hello everybody, I am new to this forum, I have spent 1 week to read the relevant useful topics here.thanks to everyone.

I am currently hold PSW dependant visa, I will be able to apply for 10 year ILR myself next month, but my wife who hold the PSW will expire in November, and she has not stayed for 10 year yet.
My plan is to apply my 10year and her spouse visa together, sounds bit of strange: dependant apply settlement first and main visa holder switch to spouse visa(but I did not see any rules say I can't do so, have you?). I have two things need some advise:

First, I know we need a cover letter to explain her application when we send two separate application forms together to ukba, who can help on this letter what we should write, personal details of mine - name, DOB, nationality, passport no, anything else I should include? who can suggest a standard format of such letter.

secondly, to meet the finance requirement. I am woking for agency and paid on weekly basis. how can I work out my annual gross income .
as normally I earn 400 pounds a week but some week only earn 200 pounds when I have absence, and I had 2 week paternity pay in April.
do I use the lowest week income multiply 52 or work out lowest month to get the annual income?

please advise, thank you!

[asim72]

Once you obtain ILR, the whole dependant thing goes down the pan, and your get an independent status in your own right. So, you can work out the rest yourself.

Writing a covering letter: Get professional help if you can't write it yourself. Bit too much to ask others to do the leg work for you.

To work out annual income, you need to find out what word "annual" means. In simple terms it means "yearly". Now you work out what an year is. Last time I checked, an year use to be of 12 months. If the year still consists of 12 months, then I guess you can add all the money you earned in last 12 months and see how much you earned.

[paultailor]

Once you obtain ILR, the whole dependant thing goes down the pan, and your get an independent status in your own right. So, you can work out the rest yourself.

Writing a covering letter: Get professional help if you can't write it yourself. Bit too much to ask others to do the leg work for you.

To work out annual income, you need to find out what word "annual" means. In simple terms it means "yearly". Now you work out what an year is. Last time I checked, an year use to be of 12 months. If the year still consists of 12 months, then I guess you can add all the money you earned in last 12 months and see how much you earned.

thank asim72 for replying me. is that cover letter really that important? it is hard to find a professional just write a letter for me. they normally represent the whole application and not just doing a single job.

[asim72]

You pay the money, and they will do what you want them to do. Just writing a letter or the whole application. Rather than asking here on forum, ring around and find out what different advisor/solicitors charge. If you are not confident, then why not pay some money, and have peace of mind.

[z18runway]

Hello everybody, I am new to this forum, I have spent 1 week to read the relevant useful topics here.thanks to everyone.

I am currently hold PSW dependant visa, I will be able to apply for 10 year ILR myself next month, but my wife who hold the PSW will expire in November, and she has not stayed for 10 year yet.
My plan is to apply my 10year and her spouse visa together, sounds bit of strange: dependant apply settlement first and main visa holder switch to spouse visa(but I did not see any rules say I can't do so, have you?). I have two things need some advise:

First, I know we need a cover letter to explain her application when we send two separate application forms together to ukba, who can help on this letter what we should write, personal details of mine - name, DOB, nationality, passport no, anything else I should include? who can suggest a standard format of such letter.

secondly, to meet the finance requirement. I am woking for agency and paid on weekly basis. how can I work out my annual gross income .
as normally I earn 400 pounds a week but some week only earn 200 pounds when I have absence, and I had 2 week paternity pay in April.
do I use the lowest week income multiply 52 or work out lowest month to get the annual income?

please advise, thank you!

sorry if i am not wrong, as the OP dependent has already on PSW (PBS) so does his wife (dependent) meet new financial requirement ?