I hold FLR visa right now
Here are the guidelines from Home office
As a person who has married someone settled in this country you may now stay here for an initial period of two years. You may establish a business or take an employment without the need to apply for a work permit.
Under the Immigration Rules you are not entitled to recieve public funds to help meet your living and accomodation costs (or those of any dependants). In addtion YOUR SPONSOR IS NOT ENTITLED TO CLAIM OR RECEIVE PUBLIC FUNDS ON YOUR BEHALF. The public funds which you are not allowed to claim for and receive are listed below:
. income-based jobseeker's allowance
. attendance allowance
. severe disablement allowance
. carer's allowance
. disability living allowance
. income support
. child taxcredit
. working tax credit
. a social fund payment
. child benefit
. housing benefit
. council tax benefit
. state pension credit
. an allocation of local authority housing
. local authority homeless assistance
It is a condition of your stay that you must not recieve any of the public funds listed above. This condition is endorsed in your passport under '' no recourse to public funds''. If you do claim and recieve any of the public funds listed above, that will be breach of your condtions of stay which is a criminal offence under section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971. This may result in your prosecution for that offence and/or curtailment of your leave to stay in the United Kingdom. It may also result in any future application for further or indefinite leave to remain being refused.
However, there are some exceptional circumtances in which people who have ''no recourse to public funds'' recorded in their passport may be able to receive some of the public funds listed above, if, for example there is an agreement between the United Kingdom and their home country. To find out this applies in your case, you should ask the agency or local authority responsible for the particular fund(s).
There are also benefits which may be entitled to recieve that are based on National Insurance contributions and are therefore not classified as non-contributory public funds.These include:
.contribution based jobseeker's allowance
. incapacity benefit
. retirement pension
. widows benefit and bereavement benefit
. guardian's allowance
. statutory maternity pay
If you have received any of these funds then you will not be regarded as having had recourse to public funds. Claiming and receiving any of thse will not breach your condtions of stay.
If you are still married and living with your spouse at the end of the period for which you have been given permission to stay, you may apply for indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom. You must apply before the end of your authorised stay in UNIted Kingdom, but not more than 28 days completing that period.
If you apply earlier than that your application may be refused.
