Spouse Visa - Took a job break

[jasonbourne2004]

Hi All,

I’m applying for a spouse visa, I’m a british citizen but my wife lives in Iran. She is an Afghan nationality. We got married in August 2017 and I wish to proceed with the visa application in order for her to join me here.

I was in a permanent job between May 2015 to May 2017 earning £30,000 pa. I left the job to get married and to also try a new company for a career change. I’ve recently started a new job this month and I’m on a £31,000 salary.

Would I be able to start working on my wife’s visa application and start the process right now or do I need to have 6 months of continued employment before I can start and submit the visa application. Can the UK Agency take into consideration I have been in a continuous employment for over 2 years and took a break for marriage etc; and now I have another permanent full time contract?

Would appreciate the response, the answer is at the link below but unfortunately my legal understanding isn’t great so I’m a bit lost:

PDf: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... _Final.pdf

5.3.. Category B:: Less than 6 months with current employer or variable income – person residing in the UK

[metanoia]

You will have to meet this requirement by two ways for category B

1) you must have earned £18600 during the last 12 months.
2) you must have gross wages of £18600 at the time of application for salaried person

You'll have to provide :

Last 12 months original pay slips and bank statements.
Employer letter from both jobs
P60 if available
Job contracts from both jobs

[jasonbourne2004]

Thanks, appreciate this. Will look further into it.

I assume the home office doesn't accept PDF copies of P60's and payslips. Stupid of me for never keeping proper record of the hard copies.