UK Spouse Visa document question.

[gmjk]

Hello everyone,
I've been pouring through documents for three days straight and my head is starting to spin. Really need some help here.

Basic info: my husband is a UK citizen, I am Canadian, we have lived in France for two and a half years. We've been married from three years, got married back home. He moved over the UK at the end of August, and has a job and a contract where he will make over 18,600 a year. However, he's just barely started this job and hasn't even put a paycheque in the bank.

It's the financial requirements that are tripping me up - I imagine that's common. Is it the case that the employment from his new job won't matter when it comes to the 18,600 number, because it's a new job?

If so, we've both been working while in France. Our combined income would certainly be more than 18,600. But my personal income was less than the equivalent of 18,600 in GBP. Basically, is the combined past income of the applicant and spouse what they're looking for?

Another questions regarding translation: all our payslips are in French. Would I need to get each documents individually translated? That's quite expensive and seem pointless, as each payslip is identical save for the date.

Thanks so much for any help. I really do feel like I'm about to explode. Please let me know if I left out some crucial obvious information.

[Lucapooka]

Your past combined income will be fine with a job offer for your sponsor. But you also have the very convenient option to apply under the Surindar Singh clause of the EU rules.

[gmjk]

Is that what's being refered to here?;

If you are a British citizen, you cannot ordinarily rely on the provisions of European law to bring your non-European family members to the UK. Instead, you should seek permission under the British Immigration Rules for those family members to enter and remain in the UK. See the Partners and families section for more information

However, the European Court of Justice held in Case C-370/90 that British citizens can rely on European law in circumstances where they are returning to the UK in order to work or settle here in a self-sufficient capacity after working in another European Union state. In these circumstances, the returning British citizen has the right to be accompanied by his or her husband, wife or civil partner, if they have previously been living together in the other European Union state.

from http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eucit ... ts-family/

I had read that previously but I think that first paragraph discouraged me from pursuing it, as it seems to be so... disapproving of the notion. I just pictured someone tut-tut-ing me while saying it.

In this case, it seems I would just provide my spouse's information when he was living in France.
Does anyone know if these documents would need to be translated, as well?

[gmjk]

Your past combined income will be fine with a job offer for your sponsor. But you also have the very convenient option to apply under the Surindar Singh clause of the EU rules.

Lucapooka, that's very helpful. I've started a thread here to ask questions about this topic.
Thanks greatly.